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if this has been discussed previously I apologize.
Lake Meade water level is down 140’. Modifications have been required on the dam’s pumping equipment.
The impact if it continues to draw down will have several connecting states left with severe water shortages which will impact
Eastern states that rely on farming produce from that area.
A lady, I don’t recall her name started throwing up red flags in the 80’s. She was un-rightly told she didn’t have a clue what she was talking about.
 
Bartoncreek said:
if this has been discussed previously I apologize.
Lake Meade water level is down 140’. Modifications have been required on the dam’s pumping equipment.
The impact if it continues to draw down will have several connecting states left with severe water shortages which will impact
Eastern states that rely on farming produce from that area.
A lady, I don’t recall her name started throwing up red flags in the 80’s. She was un-rightly told she didn’t have a clue what she was talking about.
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I've been quietly keeping an eye on it.
Just like globalism and the JIT delivery system supplying all of our daily necessities, it's destined to fail at some point.
How soft the American population has become will become very apparent in the near future I'm afraid.
 
I encourage city folks from New Orleans, Atlanta, Somalia, Iran to relocate to Idaho/Utah/Wyoming/Montana/North and South Dakota.

Beautiful women just waiting for them. ;)

Maybe the water shortage will help alleviate the traffic in Vegas. I don't understand how they can keep a fountain show going on every hout but can't keep a swimming pool open past 6 p.m in the summer.
 
I’ve been tracking the desertification of the southwest for over 50 years; Dad retired from SRP. Have been all over Arizonas watershed. Problem is way bigger than a good rain or snowpack can even come close to addressing. It’s a long term natural climate cycle that happens all over the place we just have short memories.
 
From what I understand is the beginning calculations for water in, water out started with bad data. The planners relied on historical data provided during a ‘well above average’ time frame.
But regardless you are correct and the article spoke to the fact that relying on snow melt and rain is not going to alleviate the issue.
 
Bartoncreek said:
From what I understand is the beginning calculations for water in, water out started with bad data. The planners relied on historical data provided during a ‘well above average’ time frame.
But regardless you are correct and the article spoke to the fact that relying on snow melt and rain is not going to alleviate the issue.
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This is what I've found as well.
By the time they realized their data was flawed, it was too late to correct. The damage was done and the dependency was too great to turn back.
 
The Sahara was a forest 6000 years ago, there’s evidence of similar change in parts of the American Southwest. Natural events change climate over time that have nothing to do with any modern notions about “climate change.” It just happens and the Indians moved with it. Our data isn’t very old, but the trend across decades is Arizona is drying out. We got there on the down cycle to watch but it was doing it all by itself before Phoenix put in a thousand golf courses or someone decided to grow almonds at a gallon a nut. There are 118 AI data centers in Phoenix … no one is “really” worried about the short term. But every time I go home it looks drier and browner.
 
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