Western U.S. faces water and power shortages due to climate change, U.N. warns

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Climate cannot change.

And God said humans have a right to own a gun, by now we know all your deflecting strategies, tell us again about your erroneous application of thermodynamics to climate change, we could all use a chuckle

 

[gfm7175]

I use to live in Arizona, was planning moving back, but with the 22 year old drought and with possible water shortages I'm glad I didn't?!! Also housing is too damn high too?!!

The two largest reservoirs in the United States are at “dangerously low levels,” threatening the supply of fresh water and electricity in six states and Mexico, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned on Tuesday.

Lake Mead and Lake Powell, which are both man-made reservoirs on the Colorado River, are currently at their lowest levels ever, in part because of an ongoing drought exacerbated by climate change.

“The conditions in the American West which we're seeing around the Colorado River basin have been so dry for more than 20 years that we're no longer speaking of a drought,” said Lis Mullin Bernhardt, an ecosystems expert at UNEP. “We refer to it as ‘aridification’ — a new, very dry normal.”

The river is also struggling thanks to overconsumption due to a growing population and an outdated agreement that guarantees allotments for its neighboring states. The reservoirs provide water for agricultural and residential use in Arizona, California, Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada and New Mexico.

If conditions don’t improve, Lake Mead and Lake Powell are at risk of reaching “dead pool” status, in which the water is so low it stops flowing out of a reservoir. That would disable the hydroelectric dams that help provide power for millions of residents of the western U.S.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/western-...due-to-climate-change-un-warns-211255637.html

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It has nothing to do with "climate change".

Commiefornia should maybe actually collect their own water for a change instead of being stupid communist libtard dipshits.

 

[evince]

You don’t think an artificially made source of water for a growing population in an arid area has anything to do with a water shortage in those places?

The source of water isn’t man made you idiot

 

[evince]

You could see this disaster coming long before "Global Warming!" became so trendy. Some people were talking about this in the 80's, I know, because I was reading their essays and pieces in the Newspaper.

The theory of GW already existed then idiot



And it was correct

 

[evince]

It has nothing to do with "climate change".

Commiefornia should maybe actually collect their own water for a change instead of being stupid communist libtard dipshits.

That river flowed into California asshole


That’s why we got part of it shit bag

 

[gfm7175]

That river flowed into California asshole


That’s why we got part of it shit bag

My comment went over your head, I see...

 

[anonymoose]

The source of water isn’t man made you idiot

The lake is, stupid. It's the source. The source of the Colorado River is La Poudre Pass Lake . Without dams there'd be no water available for those cities in the desert.

 

[evince]

My comment went over your head, I see...

Part of that water was ours asshole



Stop fucking lying shit bag

 

[evince]

The lake is, stupid. It's the source. The source of the Colorado River is La Poudre Pass Lake . Without dams there'd be no water available for those cities in the desert.

Before they damed it it ran into California you ass lapper

 

[evince]

Read history you dumb fuck Republicans



You shits never use facts


Just trash lies

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

The problem is NOT climate change. It's the 30 million alien parasites that live in the SW.

 

[Into the Night]

Dumping on the U.S. again as though its some isolated planet within a planet when it comes to environmental issues, consider facts versus your trolling and misconstrued bs. Also Lake Mead does not speak for the entire water supply of the U.S.:

As a result, some 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to water, and a total of 2.7 billion find water scarce for at least one month of the year. Inadequate sanitation is also a problem for 2.4 billion people—they are exposed to diseases, such as cholera and typhoid fever, and other water-borne illnesses. Two million people, mostly children, die each year from diarrheal diseases alone."
https://www.worldwildlife.org/threa...ult, some 1.1,and other water-borne illnesses.

Key findings for North America: Resiliency hampering water sustainability

Toronto, ranked 6th globally, Washington, D.C. (13th) and New York (14th) represent North America’s most sustainable water cities while Los Angeles ranks second for efficiency. According to Arcadis, cities in North America tend to outperform other world cities when it comes to water quality. In fact, Toronto, Chicago and Philadelphia rank in the top three North American and global cities for ensuring a healthy and clean water supply."

https://waterfm.com/arcadis-study-u...o, Chicago and,healthy and clean water supply.

What would it take to fill Lake Mead?
Lake Mead has a somewhat larger shortage, about 8 trillion gallons, but it could be filled in about 370 days at 250,000 gallons/sec:
We could fill Lake Powell in less than a year with an aqueduct from Mississippi River
Regarding the Mississippi water letters of June 26, citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi south of the Old River Control Structure don’t need all that water. All it does is cause flooding and massive tax expenditures to repair and strengthen dikes.

The best solution would be for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build an aqueduct from the Old River Control Structure on the Mississippi to Lake Powell, fill it, and then send more water from there down the Colorado to fill lake Mead.

About 4.5 million/gals a second flow past that structure on the Mississippi. As mentioned, New Orleans has a problem with that much water anyway, so let’s divert 250,000 gallons/sec to Lake Powell, which currently has a shortage of 5.5 trillion gallons.

This would take 254 days to fill. "

https://www.desertsun.com/story/opi...han-year-via-mississippi-aqueduct/7751467001/

Instead of building useless tRump type walls, consider building water pipelines from areas that get too much hurricane overwhelming water to areas that need it.

It is impractical to build such an aqueduct.

 

[Into the Night]

And God said humans have a right to own a gun, by now we know all your deflecting strategies, tell us again about your erroneous application of thermodynamics to climate change, we could all use a chuckle

I never mentioned any god or gods. Word stuffing.
Thermodynamics isn't an 'application'. They are theories of science that YOU discard and deny.
There is no thermodynamics of climate change. Climate cannot change.

 

[Into the Night]

It has nothing to do with "climate change".

Commiefornia should maybe actually collect their own water for a change instead of being stupid communist libtard dipshits.

They used to do so. They've been dismantling their water collection systems and their power stations.

Won't be long before the SDTC is sitting the dark with no water gazing at their own navel.

 

[Into the Night]

The source of water isn’t man made you idiot

Both Lake Powell and Lake Mead are man made.

 

[Into the Night]

The theory of GW already existed then idiot



And it was correct

It is not possible to have a theory about what you cannot define.

 

[Into the Night]

That river flowed into California asshole


That’s why we got part of it shit bag

The Colorado river does not flow into the SDTC. It forms the border with Arizona instead.

 

[Into the Night]

Part of that water was ours asshole



Stop fucking lying shit bag

What water? Soon there will not be enough water for the SDTC to use!

 

[Into the Night]

Before they damed it it ran into California you ass lapper

...and destroyed farmlands and ranches.

 

[evince]

...and destroyed farmlands and ranches.

Try to make sense ass miner