Lake Mead and Climate Change

Sailor said:
It is not climate change. It is water demand. You know, all those tree huggers that need green lawns and pools. Educate yourself on these matters. Seriously. You stupid fuck.
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I know that california is routinely sending water to the oceans that the citizens and illegal inhabitants of California needs, as well as their farming sector.

While trying to keep it as hush hush as they can.
 
How much of the decline of this lake is directly due to sending more water to Mexico because they were constantly bitching?

I need an answer before I go further.
 
Geeko Sportivo said:
Thanks!

It wasn't really my idea, I must confess, I heard Bill Mahr ask the question once!

I thought it was a good question though!

I also heard Israel has a way to turn salt water into drinking water!
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yeah desalination is not new. Saudi Arabia started doing it decades ago but they had the money to pay for it. I do think they've figured out cheaper ways of doing it now whichi is a good thing because not only is the world staring down the barrel of not enough food, we are woefully short on water as well. It aint just SoCal.
 
Celticguy said:
yeah desalination is not new. Saudi Arabia started doing it decades ago but they had the money to pay for it. I do think they've figured out cheaper ways of doing it now whichi is a good thing because not only is the world staring down the barrel of not enough food, we are woefully short on water as well. It aint just SoCal.
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Desalination concentrates the salt around the plant and kills the aquatic life there.
 
Mina said:
Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam, has been in the news lately, thanks to multiple bodies being found there, as dropping water levels reveal parts of the lake that have been underwater since it was originally filled after the dam was built. The sheer magnitude of the decline is amazing. We're used to seeing lakes dry up where the lake was fairly shallow at the best of times. But Lake Mead is now about 162 feet below the level it was at as recently as 2000. The West is drying out, and while we might get some intermittent relief, climatologists predict that on average it'll just get worse and worse, thanks to our failure to curb greenhouse gases.
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Do you know what desertification is? What am I asking, of course you don't. Stop getting "The Science" from MSNBC fuckwit.
 
Between variations in precipitation, the maximum use of water from these reservoirs now, and the insistence of the same environmental nutters that they release tons of water to 'maintain the natural river habitat', of course lakes like Mead are getting low. Up until now, there has been an annual release of about a quarter million acre feet of water a year to maintain habitat on the Colorado river...

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nevada...tion-lake-mead-and-lake-mohave-lower-colorado
 
Matt Dillon said:
Desalination concentrates the salt around the plant and kills the aquatic life there.
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what I was referring to was a plant (factory, not flora) that takes salt water, removes the salt and outputs potable water. No idea what they did with the leftover salt. Prolly dumped it out in the desert.
 
Matt Dillon said:
So it's an unintended consequence that can kill off estuaries and other aquatic wildlife and flora. AKA: It's not feasible.
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I gotta say...you sound a lot like those people saying mankind is destroying the atmosphere. Whatever salt does accrue won't affect anything more than the local area. If it matters at all.
 
Guille said:
I gotta say...you sound a lot like those people saying mankind is destroying the atmosphere. Whatever salt does accrue won't affect anything more than the local area. If it matters at all.
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It mattered a lot more than you think it would when they tried it. To the point where it's not a viable option.
 
Mina said:
Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam, has been in the news lately, thanks to multiple bodies being found there, as dropping water levels reveal parts of the lake that have been underwater since it was originally filled after the dam was built. The sheer magnitude of the decline is amazing. We're used to seeing lakes dry up where the lake was fairly shallow at the best of times. But Lake Mead is now about 162 feet below the level it was at as recently as 2000. The West is drying out, and while we might get some intermittent relief, climatologists predict that on average it'll just get worse and worse, thanks to our failure to curb greenhouse gases.
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I’ve witnessed the change, it’s so very frightening.
 
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