The feds say if it is lower yet by the end of this year, a mandatory reduction in water supply to Nevada will be required.
see: Lake Mead article
Building a gleaming, water devouring city in the middle of the Mojave desert always seemed risky to me: what if they run low on water?
Then what?
There's a chance we'll find out.
If the feds limit supply, I wonder whether the pain will be born across the board, or will casinos get preferential treatment?
I can foresee an argument that their water should not be cut, given that they are the linchpin of the local economy.
I wonder who makes such a call?
Having lived in Las Vegas for the last 25 years we have heard of this pending doom for so long it has become the boy that cried wolf.
Quote: GWAEthey can pipe oil across the country why not water.
Because we won't let them have ours. :-)
You actually will let them have your's, once the price is right ;-)Quote: IbeatyouracesBecause we won't let them have ours. :-)
Quote: TwoFeathersATLYou actually will let them have your's, once the price is right ;-)
Ok ok, that can have Flints water. heh..
Quote: GWAEthey can pipe oil across the country why not water.
Indeed.
It has always surprised me that there was never a concerted effort to design and build a huge aqueduct with pumping stations to send water from the Columbia River to the desert SW.
Oh sure, salmon need water, but it would be a simple thing to prohibit shipping water during times of low flow, and allow it when the flow is high enough.
Send the water south when there is excess in the River, which is often.
Hold it in new or existing reservoirs down south.
Really, I see no reason not to do it.
It would create a lot of jobs to build and maintain it, and substantial revenue as well.
Win-win.
Quote: IbeatyouracesOk ok, that can have Flints water. heh..
wait is that the city with lead in their water
Don't wait too long Great Lakes States. There has been a plan for many years to take Canadian water from west of you to the American SOuthWest. Almost started a couple times, failed. You can look it up. Talking big project, like putting in the Interstate HWY system...Quote: GWAEwait is that the city with lead in their water
That seems to be what I read. Further reading sounded like Flint bought the water from Detroit? I wondered if Detroit was testing their water and selling any batches that failed to Flint?Quote: GWAEwait is that the city with lead in their water
Damn Yankees , and no one understands why they still aren't 100% trusted 'round here ;-)
Quote: WizardWhy does Las Vegas get all the blame for the low water levels of Lake Mead? The vast majority of the water is used for desert farming around the Salton Sea at very subsidized prices. I think everybody has to feel the pain in reducing water consumption, including the farmers. This opinion also applies to the California drought.
The country is very lucky we in the California Central Valley have a snowpack this year in the Sierras. After four years of virtually no winter, one more dry winter was going to break the camel's back. We have greatly lowered the water table underground that took over 50 years to establish itself. I talk with many farmers and one more dry winter and the rest of you people were not going to get any grapes, peaches, etc., this season. For you meat eaters, you should also know that it takes water to grow alfalfa for the cattle. I have watched cattle farms disappear over the last three years. We feed the whole country from our valley. No water for us, no food for you.
I can't imagine a price point higher than that.
Because droughts and surplus move around and are unpredictable.Quote: MrVIt has always surprised me that there was never a concerted effort to design and build a huge aqueduct with pumping stations to send water from the Columbia River to the desert SW.
You CAN have an oil pipeline because the source and destination are relatively unchanging.
I would like to see solar desalination to help the problem. I have read about doing it on a small scale, may try for the science of it. All that desert, all that heat, Would be wonderful.
Quote: AZDuffman
I would like to see solar desalination to help the problem. I have read about doing it on a small scale, may try for the science of it. All that desert, all that heat, Would be wonderful.
...and that also solves the rising sea level problem caused by global warming ;)
Here's a thought piece
Hey, Oregon: have the southwesterners pay all costs of construction and operation; charge a fee for water shipped: result: a nearly effortles two or so billion dollars revenue a year.
Save the planet.
Done.
Next?
<edit> it's simple actually, just look at a map.
Lots of water up there, very little water down here.
Water flows downhill right, dig some ditches ;-)
Delicate Sandstone formations are a gift from nature to be enjoyed
Redstone Dune trail
About an drive hour from Vegas
Anybody know these clowns