Return of the Dust Bowl

[Speaker to Animals]

The Colorado River is running dry, guys. It had a good run for thirty million years. The river that once provided water to dinosaurs is going to disappear because you didn't vote democrat.

[Speaker to Animals]

Interest is up and the stock market's down..

[Montegriffo]

Visible at the top of the Hoover Dam, this 'bathtub ring' shows the devastating effects of a drought which has seen the level of Lake Mead drop to an historic low.

The lake's surface now sits at just over 1,000ft, the lowest point it has been since it started being filled in the early 1930s when the dam was finished.

The water level is so low that officials from Las Vegas, which draws its water from Lake Mead, have been forced to spend $800million building a third pipe to ensure their supply does not run out.

The pipe is needed because the top of the lake will soon dip below the height of the first two pipelines, leaving them out of the water.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z5HCPHJvdL

[Speaker to Animals]

So people are using more water out of an artificial reservoir.

Dude, listen to yourself.

[DBTrek]

Suburban Farmer started weeding today with a full bottle of water. Two hours later bottle is 90% empty.

Global warming y’all

[Montegriffo]

Six years ago, at the end of the summer of 2010, federal Bureau of Reclamation officials worried that Hoover Dam, the biggest hydropower enterprise in the Southwest, might soon go dark. Water levels in Lake Mead, the dam’s energy source, were falling, and Hoover was moving “into uncharted territory,” the facility manager told Circle of Blue.

Today, the story has a twist. Lake Mead is 10 feet lower, a new record set on May 18 that is re-broken every day now. Yet though water levels continue to decline, Hoover’s hydropower is in a much better spot. Thanks to investment in efficient equipment, managers are confident that they can still wring electricity from the Colorado River even as the surface elevation of Lake Mead drops below 1,050 feet, the uncharted territory that was assumed to be Hoover’s operating limit.

“As far as power goes, we can still operate below 1,050 feet,” Rose Davis, Bureau of Reclamation spokeswoman, told Circle of Blue. Dam operators are revising the lower limit to 950 feet, a boundary that will be confirmed in October once the fifth and final more-efficient turbine is installed, Davis said.

http://www.circleofblue.org/2016/water- ... am-powers/

[Speaker to Animals]

You really do not understand the difference between a population's consumption depleting an artificial reservoir and climate change somehow killing one of the biggest rivers on the continent?

[DBTrek]

Missing water is missing water, dude.
It’s all the same.
It’s water that is missing.


Lulz

[Montegriffo]

You really do not understand the difference between a population's consumption depleting an artificial reservoir and climate change somehow killing one of the biggest rivers on the continent?

Who said anything about killing a river?
Instead of strawmanning try addressing the fact that large amounts of money have had to be spent to ensure that power output keeps up with supply...for now.
If you bother to read up on it you'll find that both low snowfall in the Rocky mountains and increases in consumption are to blame for the falling water level.

[C-Mag]

Vegas will become Barter Town.