Federal government expected to declare first-ever water shortage at Lake Mead

Federal government expected to declare first-ever water shortage at Lake Mead

[@kathleencernetich6243]

They will keep watering the golf courses

[@truckingwithtobee]

The golf courses use dirty water.

[@MrLoobu]

@@truckingwithtobee So? It could be cleaned and given to you.

[@saintracheljarodm.holy-kay2560]

That's treated sewer water, that they use!!🤢

[@CarlosRuizisthebest]

It's reclaimed water. Definitely can not drink.

[@jasonlacroix6083]

The golf courses have to be watered. I'm not playing on no brown crusty course. Plus, it's the law!

[@chuckfinley6156]

and when the hydro dams can't produce power, you're going to really find out how hot a desert gets.

[@tomtheplummer7322]

... or charge the cars to leave.😏

[@mokokoco4720]

And that’s why we will result back to coal powering our houses

[@kevinnordin8484]

@Smarty Pants 😂😂😂 that’s a good joke

[@Gamerz00760]

Global cooling then.... We stop consuming & polluting. As gas stations & electric cars are no longer powered.

[@MrLoobu]

@@Gamerz00760 Feedback loops are already well underway, even if we stopped most industry altogether things will keep drying up and getting hotter.

[@midassnap9028]

Looks like the time for serious decisions was about 20 years ago.

[@chrisdovrik2894]

Exactly, should of started 5,10,15 years ago. Only now they’re starting to realise the emergency behind the situation when the lake goes dry.

[@theg.c.142]

Democrats and emergencies.....time for Republicans to save their asses again.

[@midassnap9028]

@@theg.c.142 The party of denial are you insane. The Republican party would strip every single twig, leaf, nutrient, and drain all of the water off this planet and say God will take care of it.

[@herethererainbows]

@@theg.c.142 When they actually admit what happened on January 6th then we’ll talk

[@XXassassin71]

@@theg.c.142 You do realize republicans are the ones that don’t believe climate change is real, and would happily sell the air we breath

[@Im_George]

Thank goodness there is plenty of water to go to all the new homes constantly being built in the entire Las Vegas

[@user-ix5jy7gt4w]

Wdym?

[@marcosantana4330]

People are constantly moving here. If they knew of the water shortage why are they allowing new homes to be built at this rate.

[@zureai]

@@marcosantana4330 cause 🤑🤑🤑

[@Mike__B]

@@marcosantana4330 Because new homes = new tax revenue. They couldn't give less of a fuck about resources, whether it's water, electricity, schools, road capacity, etc. And it's not a Las Vegas only problem, this happens everywhere.

[@hass6390]

@@Mike__B i live in Michigan and let me tell u none of u people from the west coast is getting any water from the Great Lakes we work super hard maintaining them it’s difficult and costly enjoy ur almond farms people

[@claudermiller]

"We're at the point where some serious decisions might have to be made".....HELLO!!! It looks like serious decisions should have been made years ago.

[@aztecgold8997]

They did....they decided to build golf courses and fountains

[@claudermiller]

@@aztecgold8997 just shows the power of wealthy developers. Even a child could understand what is going on yet greedy developers are able to convince government to allow them to continue as if everything was normal.

[@Distress.]

@@claudermiller To be fair they'd be fine if the government built desalination plants and actually charged people fair market prices on water.

[@rixille]

The population has gone up too, so there is a much larger demand for running water and electricity than there ever was for that area. This would suck if it ended up like the Aral sea.

[@claudiaperea]

@@Distress. desalination isn’t perfect. They don’t have a solution for the hyper-concentrated salt water byproduct. They only solution right now should be immediate cutbacks and emergency declaration.

[@allbrakesnogas2712]

And during all this people will still have grass yards and golf courses...

[@fourq2049]

Exactly

[@oldluke7653]

Priorities

[@SwagJaws]

Abolish golf courses that use real grass. There is literally no need for real grass in middle of the desert.

[@MrSurferdude420]

Zero rain water collection. Lots of crying.

[@35ze4ir]

Yepp business as usual

[@JarJarBaggett]

Wow. It’s almost like they put a huge city in the middle of the desert..

[@Thats_Unfortunate]

And all those desert cities keep building up

[@dominiquexo4772]

Yep loo

[@alexanderstrickland9036]

Vegas isn’t the issue from what I understand. It’s Southern California taking a lion share.

[@FJ80Coop]

And are growing huge tracts of rice there... Which grows in water filled fields...

[@adventurealley4151]

Primary water and weather modification tech.

[@roberts.1604]

“Man-made lake in desert losing water”

[@naawakweoseindizhinakaaz2052]

@@thefrybasket aho

[@debunkthejunk1]

Yah, I'm not sure you can lose something that wasn't supposed to be there in the first place. Nature took it back

[@eclipse369.]

@@thefrybasket actually they have stashes for themselves lol

[@Rick_Sanchez_C137_]

The problem is corrupt politicians selling the water to California who builds desalinization plants to use pacific saltwater but then closes the desalinization plant and bribes politicians in desert states to sell them the water from the Rio grand River…..

[@ginzingtonschnizer2330]

@Lil' Black Duk Not really a conspiracy theory, several rich people like bill gates has come out and talked about doing this.

[@Tr1Hard777]

Who would have thought there would be a water shortage in a desert.

[@ANGELINA5461]

🤪🤪

[@budlight2969]

@@ANGELINA5461 😋🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@thesauce1682]

@@budlight2969 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@Rich_Harrison_MPH]

Mind blowing

[@joegotz1971]

never occurred to me at all. remember Sam Kinison told people to move out of the desert and move to where the food is? why do you think all major cities started on or near a river. UAE desalinates ocean water. I guess we never thought of that idea.

[@firstthoughts3511]

I think they should have done some "declaring" a lot sooner.

[@Tonyrg1988]

greed and incompetence transcends institutions

[@BedwetterCDN]

Another war for oil somewhere with brown people? ......Silly me they do not declare those wars they just do them.

[@firstthoughts3511]

@@BedwetterCDN You realize we are talking about the water shortage in the USA?

[@BedwetterCDN]

@@firstthoughts3511 So sorry - America + Declaring i just assumed war - but then I remembered America does not declare war they "Just do it"

[@daviddionne8296]

@@BedwetterCDN Not oil, for water. Beware Northern Maple Leafers, eyes looking North.. LOL.

[@Anahetian]

When you haven't built new damns or reservoir's in decades and the population increases.... Guess what.

[@gopherfan118]

Dams aren't the solution. They alter the landscape and destroy natural rivers

[@gobblenater]

what good would new reservoirs and dams do when the one river they have already cant support THIS reservoir?

[@ian3580]

Adding a dam to what? There's no more water. They need rain and snow melt.

[@Noble_Duck828]

Even with more dams, the Colorado River Compact has a set allocation of water rights. Southern Nevada only gets so much, the smallest share if I remember correctly, and they have to let the rest of it run downstream.

[@wynnschaible]

If LA wants to keep attracting more people, they can pony up for desal like Sydney! Sorry, Vegas and Phoenix, your Randian "whims" (wanting to live where it hardly ever rains on your parade) do not constitute an obligation on the rest of us to pay for and f**k up the hydrology of our continent for them!

[@atfarley]

"If the trend continues." People have been warning ya'll about that for 2 decades now.

[@spaghetti2777]

People don't think it's even their problem until 😳 tier 1 water shortage. What happened?

[@jafo4u508]

Warnings came more than two years ago! It's a fookin desert 🏜 you idiots!

[@mehrshadvr4]

@@jafo4u508lol people lived in dessert for thousands of years.

[@jafo4u508]

@@mehrshadvr4 Desert 🏜 my friend, Dessert 🍨 😋

[@jafo4u508]

@@mehrshadvr4 They've eaten dessert after dinner you meant.

[@1940limited]

With 40 million people feeding off the Colorado River how long did anyone think that could be sustained?

[@onenikkione]

for 40 million years?

[@schechter01]

That's at least 30 million too many.

[@kroto7451]

20 million need to go

[@kansasthunderman1]

Here's a spiffy idea. Build a huge city in the middle of a hot, dry desert (like Phoenix Arizona), pave over the land with streets, cars, and buildings, brag about how it's one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S., then act surprised when the place runs out of water.

[@Turin-Fett]

It worked until now, but the hoover dam has been holding back water for only about 90 years. Before then, there were probably many similar droughts that would have gone unnoticed because there weren't as many people around that depended on it, and those that were around didn't die because they didn't use as much water as they do today. It's the same with all other extreme weather events these days. They say things are getting worse and cite all of the destruction that tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and forest fires cause, but a few hundred years ago, any comparable events could have happened and no one would have known the difference.

[@user-od2ws3xt6w]

I bet the NCR and Caesar’s legion never expected that the lake could dry up rendering the hydro dam useless.

[@_Devil]

Patrolling the bed of Lake Mead almost makes you wish for a nuclear tsunami.

[@superspeederbooster]

Dude, whenever i see hover dam i only think about fallout new vegas

[@winterbrotherz]

This should have the most likes

[@deplepfan]

Fall out new vegas live

[@gamesdonovan7666]

Makes you wish for nuclear winter

[@Mauser1965]

Perfect example on how a city has outgrown it's resources and continues to drain every place around it. One would have figured long ago that it wasn't sustainable.

[@hypotheskeptic]

The simplest and quite possibly the silliest question. What happens when the water runs out? No seriously. For real. Think about it.

[@spaghetti2777]

Answer is, it becomes a dry ass completely useless desert like many lakes that have dried up before.

[@lemuelbecc]

Sounds like a self-solving problem.

[@hypotheskeptic]

@@lemuelbecc You just found the simplest and silliest answer to this question. I love it.

[@lemuelbecc]

@Shia Lebeouf: Life Coach Very thoughtful reply. Thank you!

[@dalhousiekid]

People will have to move to the eastern portion of the country. We get lots of rain on the east coast.

[@mistermylo8607]

Resources are finite but the developers and governments treat them like they are endless. Too many people and misuse .

[@-cheshire-cat]

Developers/Governments/Corporations. They all seek endless growth. Even though our planet doesn't have infinite resources.

[@glennhibben7757]

Perhaps developers are building to meet a market need.

[@ChrisHillASMR]

The ocean waves create power, other countries use that, the power is farmed and put into desalinization = infinite low cost water + power. It really seems problematic to have so much provided naturally and not utilize much of it in any real capacity. The local population must really be low IQ due to some kind of poisoning.

[@Therzza]

Yep! Thanos was right, we are way too overpopulated…and we keep letting more people come in to the US for some reason. Time to close the border completely.

[@lukechapman3701]

Off yourself

[@chiefjoseph8154]

Build more golf courses and houses, that’ll fix it.

[@chriscaper1510]

I was going to say let in more illegals but ok

[@turbanwearersblow]

100%

[@livonia1807]

just chop down some more trees so those fkn things can stop soaking up all the water

[@Todd.T]

@@chriscaper1510 Who is gonna take care of the golf courses??

[@epia125]

This what I find to be funny. Is anyone surprised that large population growth in areas where water is scarce would impact water levels? What do you expect when you build cities/communities in the dessert.

[@glenfrog814]

It started 20 years ago when I heard this lady say out loud. Hey I remember the water been up to here, now we have to walk an extra 10 minutes to get to the water.

[@joecog8949]

Thank God the Midwest has the Great Lakes compact, otherwise those lakes would be drained too.

[@intermissionbuffalo]

GW Bush's plan was to send them our water. I feel it could still happen. They illustrious west always gets priority.

[@nonameuno9394]

Like Edward Abbey said: "there's no such thing as a water shortage. You don't build cities where there isn't supposed to be one."

[@BatMan-ut1fp]

Gov. Brown, let's build a high speed rail system between LA and San Francisco. Me, LMAO. I wrote Gov. Brown way back when that water and water storage is far more important.

[@googoo-gjoob]

eggzackly.

[@BatMan-ut1fp]

Oh, and stop people from moving to the USA until problem fixed, No BS.

[@williamsimmons7093]

Edward Abbey " If a man can't piss in his own front yard he's livin' to close to town "

[@HelloImNoob2323]

@@BatMan-ut1fp Yes BS, how would that solve anything? Do you have any critical thinking skills at all? This is like 6th grade level thinking. Say we stop everyone from coming in the USA, what would then prevent lake meade from continuing to go down? Are Immigrants stealing all the rain too? What if people already from USA move to the south/mid west, do we stop them from moving too? You act like the entire draught that's affecting a large portion of the United States is because of immigrants and that by itself is a laughable, weak, small minded thought process. You should be embarrassed for having this thought, it clearly shows the level of thinking you tend to do on a day to day basis and let me tell ya, it's pretty embarrassing.

[@FranciscoGarcia-hi3zx]

I feel like I hear about this lake getting lower every year and nothing ever changes. It’s defiantly going to continue the way things are going.

[@bikinisforever4163]

A crisis is on the horizon, it's just a matter of time. When it comes, it will be a wake up call, we must change our wicked ways.

[@leeroy5665]

The sun will only get hotter as time goes on, but we really do speed up the heat intensity on planet Earth by the stupid things we continue to do. It's ok in the next few billion years the sun will explode and well who knows lol

[@Ninyt32]

Just give it time. It’s right over the hill top

[@leeroy5665]

@UCe5sEC9nFn8RbrVKfe1jIjg exactly the currupt politicians severely out weigh the morally strong ones until the evil is cleared. nothing's going to change in the country until the people open their eyes and realize we stay on this path of destruction and hatred because of the currupt influence of our "leaders" and their obsession for power and control.

[@shiTheadith]

*definitely

[@coatofarms4439]

This is why the NCR shouldn’t win. This would never happen under Mr. House or Caesar.

[@bryan6090]

as they say the house always wins

[@zeemzero2880]

All you really have to be is a "Yes" man 👍

[@coatofarms4439]

@@zeemzero2880 Yesman would also be better, I'd rather have no government then the current one. At least there would be no taxes.

[@jamesnolan1673]

Or boomers (no pun intended)

[@sjcodan]

Funny how thousands of years ago we knew to build settlements near water, and then we went and built a metro in a literal desert.

[@bhew7409]

It went well for a while!

[@frankoh3451]

It’s crazy how we as a country do not take action until we are in the brink of a crisis.

[@Phil-ui4tm]

We care more about cultural wars. Fox News spent a year talking about trans restrooms.

[@haydenmalesky2518]

That’s America for you, we are a reactive country when we should be proactive.

[@krisk3363]

@Brian Schwab the democrats cannot solve this all by themselves, FYI and Trump should not just be impeached, he should be thrown in jail

[@psychotropnilachtan8869]

@@krisk3363 People like you are the problem.

[@edsanchez9198]

So is this how things go? Blaming each other for the shit that's going on instead of becoming united to solve the problem?

[@AthenaTheWolf]

If I were living there I’d sell my property and cash out

[@drakemonacelli1899]

That will work untill everyone else does the same thing and the water runs out where ever you decide to live next

[@drakemonacelli1899]

Short term solutions are what's slowly killing us

[@sierrachoco5271]

@@drakemonacelli1899 You could move to the northeast, two great lakes, lots of rivers and streams, lots of rain and snow. Downside - winter's are long! Best wishes!

[@Kappi__]

the classic Ben Shapiro solution

[@johnsmith-sk1ep]

That's never going to happen. Since 1975 the population has grown by about 1000% To put that in perspective, if the population of the US grew by that, the current population would be about 2billion people. Also, despite LV being one of the worst hit areas of the housing crash in 2008, they can't build enough housing to keep up with current demand. LV wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the BLM which has traditionally owned most of the land around the valley and developers depend on cheap land from the blm to keep building out the circle as they refer to it and this has resulted in a lot of poor zoning all across the valley. A couple of years ago I was at a zoning mtg and this developer said they were lobbying congress to get more land to build out because he said that there weren't enough plots in the middle to be worthwhile. I started laughing because he was there representing 34 acres and just two blocks from me was a 34 acre vacant lot, about a mile from downtown, empty for 14 years, and turned into a homeless camp. And I can stand on my roof and point out 3 other similar plots. Most likely what will happen is that it will just get more and more expensive to live in vegas and as more people and money comes in, more people will be forced to leave. The california model.

[@nothing563019]

That feeling when you build a lake in one of the driest spots on earth LOL

[@Mulberrysmile]

I’m sitting here on the east coast on my porch, listening to the rain. We don’t have a shortage of water, and have been under flood watches several times this year already. There is just NO reason we cannot create a water pipeline to alleviate droughts, and help prevent stressing reservoirs where there is abundant rain. We have gas and oil pipelines crisscrossing this land. We have so much drilling infrastructure out west it looks like the land is diseased with a pox. But we apparently don’t have the will or vision to help our neighboring states from drying up. Pathetic.

[@chrisbayridge23]

Soon to be Meade Canyon

[@jmac5058]

Soon back to Mead Canyon

[@5daysofcoffee]

They should probably reduce the surface area of the lake too. They have the northern arm that looks like it’s about to naturally be cut off from the rest of the lake and just have standing water that will eventually dry out. Wall that area off, it will reduce evaporation and prevent water from getting cut off in the future.

[@jackiebiskan4748]

@@5daysofcoffee shadeballs.

[@suzyrottencrotch5132]

@@jackiebiskan4748 micro plastics

[@aztecgold8997]

like it was before.....

[@LuciFeric137]

Dont forget to visit our dancing water fountains! Or executive golf courses! Thanks for playing!

[@littlebirdling238]

Spot on!

[@LVNVSmash]

The fountains are recycled water and when it goes into the drain it goes back to Mead.

[@mokokoco4720]

@@Darkware880 the greens gotta stay green

[@kenhurley4441]

@@Darkware880 Nice try Kevin,,,, but living is way about golf!

[@mowtow90]

The biggest problem is that aqueduct. It divets more watter ,then the dam can handle. The worst port of it , its loosing a lot of watter as well - its not covered auqaduct and way to much watter is lost to eveparation in the middle of the desert.

[@wahidtrynaheghugh260]

It’s almost like it was a bad idea to build cities in the desert!

[@lamirranee6997]

The Egyptians did it pretty well and figured it out🤔

[@joeverna5459]

The company I retired from built a center to house 8-9k workers in Phoenix. My first thought was where are you going to get the water. Some people are clueless.

[@Dialogos1989]

It feels like everything is falling apart all at once. Our country is a complete joke now

[@gibbontakeit9098]

Live large fall far.

[@dsmyify]

Systems are interconnected, and that can lead to cascading failures. There was an island that once cut down all its trees, once they did that no birds would visit, because no birds no seeds were germinated and no new crops would grow, nobody could eat and the island died.

[@Dialogos1989]

@@dsmyify For to him who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away." - Matthew 13:11-12

[@dsmyify]

@@Dialogos1989 ~ quoting the Bible ain't gonna do much. That book does not contain the answers to this problem.

[@Dialogos1989]

@@dsmyify what you described is called the Matthew effect. When things go bad or good they snowball.

[@joshd007]

The fact anyone waited this long to declare this an emergency shows how much people really care. Might as well watch your lake be drained, then complain when all that's left is a puddle. It's not just water but power production that's suffering. No water, no power.

[@blainebunton]

What about the people responsible for watching this. Your so ignorant you blame it on citizens.

[@joshd007]

@@blainebunton Did I blame citizens?

[@joshmcdonald9508]

Also, they farm almonds in the desert...this too!

[@pissyourselfandshitncoom2172]

@@joshd007 you didn't, but I sorta do. Not necessarily every single consumer born into this system trying to keep up with it; but the stupid people who watch Fox News or whatever else, condemning climate change and resource scarcity as conspiracies, I blame those people (not as much as corporations and corrupt capitalist-friendly governments though..) 99% of people are too stupid to handle the issues of this planet, and free democracy enables the stupidity.. We needed authoritarianism like 100 years ago, but everybody is so attached to their false sense of _"fweedumb"_

[@YourDadsBoyfriend]

California politicians doing what it does best, covering up their mess.

[@demonhalo67]

How about stop wasting water on growing almonds in Cali and watering lawns in Phoenix during the middle of summer. Madness.

[@charleslane1086]

California should be the first to lose the water rights. They've had years to help correct the problems yet they've done nothing but continue to take.

[@davinamichaeli3640]

Yes and I don’t see much desolate desert landscaping in California suburbs

[@TheMightyProdigy]

Why can’t they build a desalination factory and pump water that opposite way?

[@michaeljensen6459]

Been seeing if anyone else caught that. Oh California doesn't loose any of its water rights to a river and lake that is 2 states away the the 2 states the river and lake border loose most of theirs. Good job. Keep the idiots in California who waste water by the metric tons keep everything without ever actually making them fix their own water issues they caused. And at the same time tell states that are actually dependent on the water that's in their states oh you can't have this. Brought to you by the same government that fines and jails you for collecting rain water

[@chrissambol]

@@michaeljensen6459 no shit…it’s all so disgusting

[@ZimranB]

Yes let’s wait 20 years to implement drastic measures to reverse the water loss - Murica 2021.

[@sstills951]

They waited over 200 years to build the Brooklyn bridge. The early settlers could’ve used it. They didn’t get to building the Hoover dam until 1931. What the hell took so long? Let’s not even talk about how airports were virtually non existent all throughout the 19th century. It seems like we’ve been seriously slacking. Only building stuff when we need it. Pffff lazy bones

[@dave8599]

....and the Dems keep letting in millions of illegals when we dont have enough water for ourselves. Dumb.

[@sstills951]

@@dave8599 the worst thing about those west coast dems is that they’re starting to flock out of the mess that they’ve made and go into surrounding red states. There they will vote more liberal policies in and destroy those areas. They are a scourge.

[@jamesbaker7904]

Don't come to Texas

[@mathewvanostin7118]

What you want them to do? Bully the sun. Threaten the ground to stop slowly absorbing water. Scream at the air for being dry. Complaint to the sky for not having much rain 😂 This is Nevada Utah Arizona. It was never the ideal place for settlement. But modern human love a place they can tan 12 month/year 😂

[@wyvvernstone]

Anyone who lives in Las Vegas needs to have an exit strategy ready in the next couple of years...

[@brockbah2048]

For real. Rolling blackouts and water shortages are imminent

[@karlcx]

the strategy should be to cut off california

[@tocanoe2]

I guess my kids will be moving back in!

[@kpokpojiji]

The beginning of climate migration

[@danielmeyer135]

The strategy is being the ones upstream and actually controlling the dam.

[@glenishii2022]

Yeah, when I first moved to Vegas in ‘99, the water was pretty close to the bridge to the intake tower. Now it looks to be 50-60 feet lower.

[@TonyCook7]

You didn’t say why the shortage is happening at such a rapid pace..

[@brucejenner8620]

The Leftists are Dumping it into the Sea!.. REALLY, LOOK INTO IT!. Another engineered crisis!.. Agenda 21/30 is real..

[@ace514ify]

@@brucejenner8620 bro please shut the fuck up everyone hates you

[@TrevorJohnson.]

Save water for Lake Mead? How about we stop building 500 unit luxury apartments every quarter mile.

[@planetwalker798]

Yes, and stop building single family homes, that are too big and prevent REASONABLE housing that more people can afford. I'm tired of the "entitlement chapter" of life. That sh*t has got to go!

[@Smeowtime]

@@planetwalker798 stop over reproducing

[@kroto7451]

@@Smeowtime what's a good number for you?

[@Smeowtime]

@@kroto7451 less than 5 billion

[@michaeltb1358]

This hasn't happened overnight. It has taken years to get to this stage. But nobody was prepared to do anything about the situation.

[@thomasprice4938]

Part of the "plan"

[@mikearthut781]

How about an ocean pipeline? Get all them guys from the keystone pipeline. put'em to work.

[@mjef3695]

@@mikearthut781 That’s a thought.

[@dadandmari-polishandproud771]

As with most things gov't run, it won't be dealt with until its broke. Almost there.

[@connorcoultas9629]

@@mikearthut781 Oceans are salt water but your sentiment is there. What California needs to do is invest all of that tax money they take into desalinization so that it can become cost efficient. If they don't do that they WILL run out of water. JW Powell knew in the 1800s that there wasn't enough water on the west side of the Rockies to support the plans of development in the desert (like Las Vegas). These damns should have never been built because the dream of water they had was just never going to happen forever.

[@kimafritos2334]

Reminds me of what the 🐢 from Rango said...."He who controls the water controls it all" ...

[@johngullo9420]

You keep building and expanding over the years and you’re surprised that water levels are shrinking? You need to pay attention and stop electing the same idiots into office. Can’t say I feel sorry for you. I don’t live in an area running out of water.

[@deepfried1234]

nice take for the youth who have to suffer through our bullshit adult generation who has screwed up our future

[@derek20la]

@@deepfried1234 dont worry, today's youth are ensuring they themselves will have no future too. self destruction

[@deepfried1234]

@@derek20la ok so we are just fucked as a race then i guess where do we go from here

[@taylorcarson9213]

Bet they don’t limit nestle from taking 100 million gallons a day from the Colorado river 👁👁

[@genghisthegreat2034]

@Peter Evans not sustainable. Water mining in excess of the recharge rate is just not sustainable, and destroys groundwater-dependent ecosystems

[@genghisthegreat2034]

@Peter Evans show me anywhere that can sustain groundwater extraction in excess of the recharge rate. You simply do not understand what sustainable water resources management is.

[@genghisthegreat2034]

@Peter Evans I wish I knew as little about recharge as you do. It's because " rain and snow " don't resupply enough, that it's unsustainable, idiot.

[@-cheshire-cat]

"Governor: Cut your water usage everyone, only use it for critical things." Governor proceeds to golf course and has water party with rich friends.

[@starguy2718]

Recall & remove Pretty Boy Newsom.

[@TntTech13]

Gotta love them dems

[@huskerfootball42]

@@TntTech13 nailed it

[@K_Kealoha]

F*** Democrats.

[@burningdownthehouse161]

What a rebel you are.

[@drgibs347]

All this fearmongering is always contradicted by stuff like this.. all i hear is one day its ohhhhhhhh nooooo the ice is melting we are all going to be underwater, then we hear ohhhhh noooo we are drying up we have no more water.. both of those things contradict one another.

[@krisjohnson6355]

Soooo growing grass and having golf courses in the desert wasn't a good idea? 🤔 Never saw that one coming.

[@Idahoprepper71]

I love how people are more concerned about not being able to use there boat.

[@Bowen_Windcalibur]

*their

[@Scott-ex2rm]

@Tony Po lol you kinda missed the point, ill explain if you like.

[@Scott-ex2rm]

lol grammar nazis are out today

[@johnh7899]

@@Scott-ex2rm so are the grammar Pollacks.

[@Scott-ex2rm]

@@johnh7899 lol not really sure what the hell thats supposed to mean, but good one i guess

[@geekfreak618]

They need to quit giving the last of our clean water to corps like Nestle.

[@marvindebot3264]

Trust me I agree but most of it in So-Cal goes on green lawns and clean cars. The area is the epitome of a wasteful society. And remember, people buy all that shit Nestle and others make. It takes (IIRC) about 5 litres of water to make one litre of Coke.

[@crisis-cast]

@@marvindebot3264 liar

[@woodworksparadise6036]

Nestle has been trying to patent, and own all water rights in North America for years... but no one cares, if people stopped buying do much junk food, this corporate greed wouldn't be a problem...

[@woodworksparadise6036]

What amazes me is all the resource that the hoover provides to the east coast, yet they won't take water from east to west, maybe because ours is all poisoned by fracking...lol... who knows, many lakes and streams here you just don't go in, no telling what you'll come out with attached to you...

[@woodworksparadise6036]

@@marvindebot3264 never mind that on most if the east coast they take perfectly clean good water,and pump it back into the earth, to fracture the shale beds, so it spits back up untreatable, poisoned water, to be held in special holding ponds, for decades, until the heavy metals, and arsenic are at safe enough levels for it to be moved and used for future sewage treatment, or farming use...they excell at moving, and storing water in p.a., yet no one is movin any to out west...probably because they don't want our poisoned water...lol...

[@sigma1217]

This is why you don’t build civilizations in arid / desert climates.

[@solinvictus4367]

Egypt and Mesopotamia would like a word about your uneducated statement... Seriously look up a satellite image of Egypt and think about your statement

[@cr3amy479]

@@solinvictus4367 thats what happenes when you got no plan. Look at Dubai and other middle East .

[@dailyorangepill3338]

Truth does not mind being questioned whereas a lie does not like being challenged.

[@jsb331]

And here we thought California was going to drown in the ocean. Now it's going to die of drought.

[@veganconservative1109]

Not before their neighbors do. You can bet the powerful Democrats have already shaken hands with the powerful Democrats in the Fed. Lots of money still in California despite Newsom doing his darndest to drive the rich out.

[@TimeBucks]

That's funny last year Lake Mead was at a six-year High

[@FabledExistance]

Everything is not a conspiracy.

[@ophello]

It’s as if extreme weather and extreme situations are more common…

[@fast1100xx]

Which really doesn't say much when you have a drought if it goes up a foot is higher than it was the last 15 years that's nothing I need to suck their own water San Diego from the ocean and Los Angeles from the ocean process your own water that'll save the lake

[@TonyisToking]

Hahaha, ok? A six year high for RAINFALL. Not it’s water level, lol. Lake mead would take many years of above average rainfall in order to refill. Yes, lake mead and the whole valley was very rainy last year… but when I visited lake mead last year, it was higher than it is right now… what’s that tell ya?

[@hawkenman.549]

That has to be a lie

[@lendumore]

We'll just drink Brawndo. It's what plants crave anyway!

[@midassnap9028]

That movie appears more like a documentary with every passing year.

[@burtonbonham1629]

I live in Michigan surrounded by The Great Lakes and my town Waterford is in a County of small lakes. You can get some from us. Please contact Nestle and/or Ice Mountain. Rest assured we will not source from the Flint River.

[@hyrenaj2888]

It's not a short term emergency, this has been going on for more than a decade and nearly nothing has been done

[@PeterLawton]

What do you recommend be done?

[@10191927]

Now it’s at a critical level, they want to talk about environmentalism, we’ll here, solve this problem government, you created it.

[@PeterLawton]

@@10191927 well, I know I don't have all the answers. But I do know that power plants (nuke and fossil fuel) have to dump an enormous amount of heat. And desalination requires an enormous amount of heat. And California has an awful lot of coastline, next to ocean, aka saltwater. Call me crazy but the opportunity looks obvious.

[@ricksmall5240]

lots has been done, alot more CO2 and other ghg have been added

[@bigbrooklyn]

I have several ideas....

[@onepunch9485]

Meanwhile nestle is laughing all the way to the bank.

[@kittys.2870]

Nestle has been STEALING water for profit but no donations to FLINT

[@italianboyz12345]

Nationalize the banks and break up Nestle

[@wlpxx7]

Say it with me "FUCK NESTLE"

[@melissag8270]

I fucking hate Nestle

[@melissag8270]

@Trumps Wall they take from anywhere and everywhere

[@vinciroth]

I wonder if all the fountains around the Vegas strip had anything to do with it

[@greganomixgrgry270]

50+ different weather altering programs in the U.S. alone 🥳🥳🥳. Know side effects we are seeing but will they stop?

[@seanjankowski9016]

It is almost as though overpopulation in a dry region is at fault for this 🤔

[@LarryDickman1]

That's a damn good possibility. 😋

[@marvindebot3264]

Yeah, but who could have predicted such a thing?

[@darkwoodmovies]

Don't forget that almost all of the fruits and vegetables you take for granted come from California, and this uses a vast majority of the water supply.

[@joshuad1716]

Doesn’t seem to be slowing down construction any, I see them pouring thousands of gallons of water on the dirt by my house every day just so drive over it with tractors lmao

[@SinCitySharksfan702]

Yup. I work construction and so much is just wasted cause of that.

[@chrismorris6982]

Recycled water is used in my area for construction water. Buildings are dual plumbed, with the toilets on recycled water. Eventually recycled water, with Reverse Osmosis, will be augmenting our drinking water. A lot of municipalities are going to be augmenting with recycled water soon. We also have recycled water fire hydrants around the city.

[@LookItsTy]

Same in my area. It's just such a flipping waste. Especially while houses and buildings are just sitting there empty.

[@judithturner1593]

They know it's not really a permanent drought. I guess all the Thundershowers we've (Nevada & Arizona deserts] been having the past few weeks gave it away.

[@claudiaperea]

@@judithturner1593 delusional

[@mlight6845]

Yup, after a 20-year drought and progressive water level declines, this is no surprise. Yes, CA is next.

[@MellowMaple]

I love it, we californians get priority over everyone else. We're even stiffing mexico. that dam should never have been built. We Destroyed the ecosystem so harshly, that it may never recover. That water way sustained so many, and that dam cut it all short. And we wonder why we're always in constant droughts. We have no idea just how large of an impact we leave with every new megastructure we build, but it's clear that the hoover damn has overstayed it's welcome. That water sustained an abundance of wildlife, now we see deserts expanding and less and less rain. The disappearance of forests and the expansion of deserts changed weather patterns dramatically, and the hoover dam is definitely playing a bigger role than we all thought.

[@citizencane3492]

Build a megaCity in a desert … this will eventually happen.

[@schwags1969]

I don't think Vegas is the entire problem, I would blame California on this one. More people need more water.

[@joelr316]

A lot of the water goes to other states not Nevada

[@kurtbarlow9402]

A lot of the water is used by California's almond industry. That doesn't sound impressive on it's face, but go research the amount of water needed for almonds vs other crops.

[@vanhasydan4754]

Exactly

[@theelastog1580]

Yea Los Angeles

[@keyboarddancers7751]

"Thank goodness the authorities have been making extensive plans for this growing water problem over the past few years," said nobody at all in any of the hot desert states of america!

[@FireController1847]

Hi, you've found your first person who had to write a college research paper on population growth and water shortages. Utah has been planning this for years and already has a massive multi-step plan in progress to resolve the issue. They don't go around advertising that though, because that doesn't make headlines :')

[@mk1st]

All the states have contingency plans drawn up by various experts and committees but they have to be implemented and that's a political process - say no more. Here in Wisconsin the (big) business community is up in arms because our (right-leaning) supreme court decided that the state DNR actually does have the authority to regulate huge CAFO farms when it comes to water quality. Business that use water fight tooth and nail to avoid any hindrance to their water access. Then of course local governments have to enact water saving regulations. The covid thing went so well I can't imagine how easy cutting back on water use is going to be.

[@txta786]

Just pull it out the ground. That's what all the agricultural farmers do. Until we start getting sink holes like in Mexico. But then we'll worry about that later

[@keyboarddancers7751]

@@FireController1847 Nice to be proved wrong in this instance!

[@rxonmymind8362]

Since Wall Street started trading water on the stock market it's telling that we have water shortages.

[@u.s.militia7682]

I’m saving my pee right now for future use. Others might want to do the same. 🇺🇸

[@kansloosnl]

I was there in 2014...it was critical then...they had 7 years to build desalination plants and infrastructure to provide people with drinking water.

[@FullFrontalExposure]

@mdo686 not only that its toxic to the environment.

[@steveo601]

Yep not practical

[@oldcountryman2795]

@mdo686 Nuclear power for the win.

[@HyperXism]

@mdo686 Nuclear power doesnt hasten climate change.

[@av_990]

@@oldcountryman2795 That alone comes with its share of issues. Risks of meltdowns. No such thing as perfect/clean energy

[@brianjennings7644]

turn out the lights, the party's over.

[@howardweber3986]

Why has it taken so long to deal with this! I’ve lived here in Las Vegas for almost 50 years why now? Stop development and home building and population growth! Ridiculous lack of oversight. ……

[@patf03]

I'm glad I have the good old lake michigan for my water source

[@wtf_usa5597]

Not for long. They're planning to build a pipe from Cali to Lake Michigan soon! Seriously, look into it.

[@patf03]

@@wtf_usa5597 haha damn that's one hell of a Long pipe

[@StansWorld]

well, when u wont stop building in the Friggin desert WHAT DO U REALLY EXPECT.....

[@daisyunderwood1002]

Exactly

[@spacetoast7783]

A lot of this goes to agriculture.

[@pantheonrockstar]

They don’t have a water problem, they have a people problem!

[@secondopinion6654]

People account for 10% of water use. Frivolous agriculture uses the most by far. CA grows 80% of the world's almonds aka one of the world's thirstiest crops. It takes 1,900 gallons of water to produce 1lb of almonds but almonds are big business in CA so they're untouchable.

[@sog4646]

Illegals gotta drink too. 😕

[@Inpreesme]

They have a capitalist society problem, build more build or build more, desert cities need people from the East Coast to move here so there’s very little restriction on how much water is used they want it will look like where they came from.

[@grendalsnap7158]

@@Inpreesme Capitalist problem? Sure, it's not like communism has ever caused mass starvation.

[@danphilbert7908]

You should be the first one to help us have less people then. Practice what you preach.

[@yougot4338]

866 golf course in CA. Average of 90 million gallons of water per year. An average household uses 102 gallons a day or 37230 a year. 866 golf course uses equivalent 2.4million household amount of water a year.

[@iyouitry]

Same is happening to the Dead Sea 🌊 in Jordan. It is retreating by 1 meter in a year. It might completely disappear in few decades.

[@georgekline1899]

Force SoCal cities to desalinate ocean water like many countries do and remove the large demand off of the Colorado river.

[@PatrickPierceBateman]

That would cost money that Republicans don't want to spend. Republicans only like to spend money on wars and tax breaks for the wealthy.

[@trunkzdbz]

I keep saying the same shit, build desalination plants, droughts over problem solved.

[@calebdoner]

@@PatrickPierceBateman California spend so much money on so many ridiculous things, it would be easy to find the funds for it if they just cut out the most stupid stuff.

[@itswedgytime]

Patrick, California is ran by democrats. They own that sh!t.

[@4550Boom]

@@itswedgytime Amen !

[@DarkPesco]

There's an emergency now but the government process doesn't impose water restrictions until next year. Really? That's like closing the barn door after all the horses have run out it. Our state and federal governments are crap.

[@elgoog7830]

Unless they want the horses to run out. Then they can close the doors, claim someone stole them and collect insurance money.

[@cactusjack1943]

This is like a super tanker. You don't come to an immediate stop. This is going to go on for years. Climate change is going to be a bitch.

[@loooii8816]

Lol I love this comment 😂

[@cactusjack1943]

@False Profit your comment makes no sense. Now, go and enjoy all the infrastructure that people in the cities paid for. 80% of the United States population is urban. They pay the vast majority of taxes and invent technologies that enable you to display your ignorance to the world.

[@kantwinnada]

@False Profit humans are responsible for a whopping 5% of all global C02 of that 5% Americans are responsible for .04%. You won't see that on the news.

[@mrbriceno3949]

This is just the beginning I don’t think it has anything to do with having a home in the desert. There will probably be a lot more of this in the future on a bigger scale.

[@CD-hc5ds]

They'll force you to stop watering your small home garden B4 they restrict pools & golf courses! By the way, here in Yucca Valley Ca. The High Desert Water Co. will fix break after break & not replace a water main. There has to be 30 patches on a 150 yard stretch of my street & at times the water will run for a day or two B4 they get out to put ANOTHER PATCH. SAD!

[@hscollier]

The water did not “disappear”. It was sent downstream to fill swimming pools, water lawns and golf courses.

[@shanevision]

No Sir, public/consumer water usage is a very small part of the overall water usage. In reality it mostly goes to the commercial farmers who turned the desert land into mega almond orchards and other crops. Its just big Government and Corporations fuk'in things up as usual...then passing the tax and burden onto the people.

[@theamerican7080]

You are correct.

[@diegoflores9237]

Exactly, it was wasted

[@kermitefrog64]

Use ocean water for filling swimming pools.

[@marchellochiovelli7259]

Ever heard of a thing called evaporation? Stop being a classist commie dweep.

[@WhaleBalm]

They'll probably tap more into the aquifers underground until those are completely drained too.

[@MrWashesp]

That's next they're about to fuck their shit up

[@dalestephens5176]

The Ogalalla Aquifer is all but gone

[@deadwingdomain]

Nestle already hit that up for bottled water.

[@worldcomfort2074]

The Midwest is looking pretty cool these days.

[@SB-qm5wg]

I remember it from way back. Starting to look like a large pond.

[@oldbaldfatman2766]

July 13, 2021---Someone simply refused to do the math when it came to water. That normally, X amount of water enters Lake Mead via the Colorado River. But in 20 years, XXX amount of water has been used for new homes, casino's, etc. Instead of saving water like it was money in a bank account, it kept going out faster than what was being put in.

[@koborkutya7338]

this attitude seems symptomatic, also for other resources.

[@SegoMan]

People use to flock to the desert towns to get away from allergies but they took their favorite plants with them...

[@jamespooley6626]

The water usage is mostly agricultural. Nevada only gets to use about 4% of the lower colorado river basin water, california gets about 58%. The water being used by homes is extremely small compared to the agricultural use.

[@davidrhp847]

CA hasn't built a dam since 1979 yet it's population went from 23.2M to almost 40M in this time.

[@hoopinfloyd]

No need to do math when you can just tax more and print fun bucks.

[@jackaman1474]

Boat guy says "...now it's almost impossible to launch." Uh, buddy, the problem is a lot worse than that...

[@VirtuellJo]

Oh yeah? What are they going to do if the water disappears? Carry the boats?

[@mikeodonnell9888]

@@VirtuellJo dum dum he is saying the problem is way bigger than some schmuck being able to launch a pleasure boat. We are talking a historic drought and possible water shortages

[@HappyHarryHardon]

The total lack of awareness is staggering.

[@CastleMisha]

What is “boating” and Everytime i hear the word, i see white people?

[@rockystelone21]

@@VirtuellJo use wind power

[@hudmeister08]

Dude you can see the clean line on the hills of we’re and how much water there was

[@rodigopizarro9414]

All I know is that I learned something in school (conservation of mass) so the hydrogen and oxygen molecules couldn’t have just disappeared they are somewhere in the air or earth, or part of a living organism now.

[@gorkyd7912]

Seeing a lot of water cycle deniers lately, mostly people who say beef uses X many times more water than growing "plant-based food." So the dihydrogen monoxide that enters bovine organisms converts into some cancer-causing barbeque molecule and will never return to its original life-giving state and soon the cows will turn Earth into Mars.

[@randalsmith2713]

Don't build major cities in deserts such as southern California, Las Vegas, and Phoenix.

[@ernestjones7139]

Exactly and they just can't seem to wrap their heads around that concept... asinine!

[@philipdyk607]

In hind sight, but it's too late now for those millions of people.

[@darkrulier]

lol, you DO know that California was founded in 1850, go back in time and tell this to those dummies! hahaha

[@randalsmith2713]

@@darkrulier Didn’t have millions of people living there then. They saw this problem coming in the 60s and did nothing to slow down the population growth.

[@floydvaughn836]

@@ernestjones7139 the real problem isn't the desert. it's all of the turd heads wanting it to look like Wisconsin. You know, GREEN. Lush, luxuriant, homey, GREEN.

[@toddperry9860]

California needs to be responsible for its own state they need to start building desalinization plants!!!

[@M8Military]

CA does have the plants but the problem is that they use so much electricity the left won't let them use all the available capacity. Ties right in with the electrical grid

[@torinmorris6648]

The united states doesn't have the technology, morals, or intelligence to do that.

[@rustyshacklford245]

Desalination technology is too expensive and energy consuming

[@RobertSmith-tq6mf]

@@torinmorris6648 we have the technology and means, but green deal idiots will never allow it.

[@-cheshire-cat]

No water + Dam = No Electricity. Desalination plants + No Electricity = No Water. :-) I guess they'll need to import electricity from neighbor state if they go that route.

[@mrvisionaryseekinoftruth3862]

Question.. Who's stealin da water while everybody is sleepin?...🤦📢

[@Oz1976]

Wish we could send some of the rain we've gotten for the last year and a half over there. FL has been more "monsoon" state than Sunshine State.

[@drifter9425]

Yea here in Louisiana too

[@DesertRat1997]

As an Arizonan, they need to cut California off first. The water rights for the Colorado are utter BS. California has access to the coast and the worlds 5th largest economy, build some damn desalination plants.

[@burkholdst.rudderberg3574]

If you knew your history, you would know that the Arizona National Guard fired their weapons at the Californians working on the Parker Dam site in the 1930's. As usual, the Californians were trying to bully Arizona and take the water by any means necessary. ( All this lead to a HUGE court case. ) Ah, the good old days! And, yes, you are right; California STILL takes more water out of Lake Havasu than they are legally allowed to do so.

[@yesman7898]

There are actually moron liberals blocking building desalination plants here.

[@WhyDoThat]

If you look at a tributary map, California contributes nothing to the colorado river. Arizona contributes the most it looks like

[@krane15]

Fifty years too late. Our government leaders are just clueless. 9/11 shout down all air travel and we still don't have a high-speed rail alternative. We don't learn from our mistakes, and we still keep all our eggs in one basket.

[@TS-gf6ou]

Mostly goes to Ag in CA to farmers that produce our food..

[@98grand5point9]

Simple arithmetic, taking more out than is put in = draining lake.

[@travishardaway6348]

@Håkan Bråkan Kråkan also no medicine, or renewable energy.

[@consciousbeyondcomprehensi406]

@Håkan Bråkan Kråkan Maybe dig a channel to the Ocean in Canada by the Artic Ice Melt, that should fix it.

[@one.2622]

Thanks captain obvious

[@Metalingots]

All these enviromental problems are being caused by governments across the word allowing deforestation, the loss of coral reefs, the overfishing by commercial fishing. The mismanagement of water resources. Countries dumping their garbage in oceans. The 250,000 sea turtle's dieing each year by being caught in commercial fishing net's. They all talk in circles about global warming. This is the perfect reason for depopulation so they can continue making that they will never be able to spend in their lifetime, but keeps the family dynasties going. People mistaken these rich people who donate large money that is a drop in the bucket to them, and have to have the media talk how great they are. They are wolves in sheeps clothing. Just a reminder, the pandemic was a virus from a lab that was made more lethal on purpose. Then within weeks it's in every country. In reality it was here in our blood donations in mid November before China announced it's first case in December 2019. If China did this then why has not one country called it an act of war? Who's to say the new Delta variant wasn't man made, and was released after a certain level was reached. Who's to say there won't be a third or fourth variant coming to the USA? Why has governments not done anything to China? This is deliberate, and no one will challenge China about it. We are nothing more than a pawn in our time on earth if you don't come from certain family lines. I'm just going to keep doing whatever I want until my time is up. One thing I will start with is why is our own government talking, but doing nothing? They need to answer this question to it's citizen's that are being murdered by this biological warfare againt the entire USA population?

[@abbytran8514]

@@consciousbeyondcomprehensi406 I hope you're joking

[@patrickcoyne1292]

anyone else remember in v for vendetta when the news reports how water coupons will likely become more expensive due to a water shortage, the similarities are just uncanny

[@watchdealer11]

Let's grow almonds in the dessert, what could go wrong?

[@robertwalls5794]

Sounds like bad planning on the part of officials in the area since the population and number of visitors just keep growing.

[@KirksCORNER]

Asylum seekers

[@Sunshineonmymind714]

It’s high time southern California starts making desalination plants.

[@jimmrazek4533]

They are in Huntington Beach.

[@Qwijebo]

Don't worry, they're going to hire a team of Israeli water experts who will save the day, just like they've been saving people all over the world.

[@yaosio]

@@Qwijebo Israel is a genocidal state murdering everybody in Palestine.

[@Qwijebo]

@@yaosio You must be a raving Democrat that bought into the narrative of Israel is a bad state. When in fact the very reason that there is conflict, you tool, is that Hamas (supported by the regime of Iran) doesn't want peace and uses it's citizens as cannon fodder in order to sway public (European) sympathy.

[@bobsaget9675]

I love that yall act like you dont have a back up plan...wait you dont have a back up?

[@alancham4]

When we pay more for tier 2 and tier 3 water, that just goes to profit, none of these companies has been working on creating water or brining it in.

[@ricardocabeza6006]

You can create or bring in as much water as you want. If you put it in a big reservoir in the desert. It’s going to evaporate...

[@alancham4]

@@ricardocabeza6006 yeah the water cycle is a thing here on earth. Thanks.

[@ricardocabeza6006]

@@alancham4... Yes it is. I’m glad we can establish it doesn’t vanish. It just cycles. So what are you upset about? That there isn’t enough H2O in liquid form in a desert? Do you know what a desert is?