Originally Posted By jonvn Good chance it's gonna be gone in a few years: <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23130256/wid=18298287" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23 130256/wid=18298287</a>
Originally Posted By EdisYoda We're drinking, flushing, cleaning, bathing and watering with it faster then it flows in.
Originally Posted By dshyates That's all liberal bunk. I'm gonna wash my SUV twice a day just to piss 'em off.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn Whenever I fly, I notice all the SUVs on the ground look like bitty ants - just like the cars.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Certainly it's having a problem...as the article says, seven years of drought. Like this has never happened before, remember Grapes of Wrath, Dust Bowl? Anything ringing a bell here? Weather patterns have always run in cycles. If the amount of participation that we have had up north this winter is any indication the levels should come back up before to long. It is a lot more fun for the media to scare the public into taking action on situations that they have no control over, that would be the weather. Everyone is in a panic that the Colorado will dry up and there will be no more electricity. Then they will have to watch TV by candle lite. If one really wants to get a view of how things change without our help, think about how much water must have been in the river when it was forming the Grand Canyon compared to now. Our world constantly changes and the one thing that remains the same is that we cannot do anything about that. Dinosaurs lived and died off...so shall we. Hopefully not tomorrow, but, the day will come. My cheery thought for the day. Did I mention that I am leaving for WDW in, as my grandson would say, three more sleeps?
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy ^^ Let's see . . . Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver, essentially every other city in the Southwest. It's not like this should be unexpected. The Colorado River doesn't even make it to the ocean anymore. It just disappears into the sands of Mexico now that all the water's been diverted to so many other places. All that's happening now is shifting the point where the Colorado ends further and furthre upstream.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Another point is that the source of the Colorado river is mountain run off. Over the last few years there has been a drought in the mountains as well and the winter snow pack has not been what it usually is. Without that there is less water in the river and subsequently less water in Lake Mead. I could be wrong but I feel that it will come back.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Isn't it ironic that Global Warming is causing the glaciers to melt thus raising the Ocean Levels and at the same time rivers and lakes are going dry? One of the many things in life that I do not understand.
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<Let's see . . . Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver, essentially every other city in the Southwest.>> Yup all those new homes built on the last 5 years need to get their water from somewhere. Also, Denver gets most of its water from the eastern side of the continental divide. If you visit Rocky Mountain National Park, you can see where the the Colorado River starts. Its basically a brook, and you can easily jump over it. <<It's not like this should be unexpected. The Colorado River doesn't even make it to the ocean anymore. It just disappears into the sands of Mexico now that all the water's been diverted to so many other places. All that's happening now is shifting the point where the Colorado ends further and furthre upstream.>> Actually, I believe that Mexico is guaranteed some Colorado water by treaty, and they siphon off every last drop.
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<Over the last few years there has been a drought in the mountains as well and the winter snow pack has not been what it usually is.>> FWIW, we have been told in Colorado that the snow pack in the Rockies is at record levels this year. Don't know if that will help lakes Mead or Powell.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn So in part, more water was consumed south of Hoover Dam, and less water was available from the mountains. Have the gates of Hoover Dam truly been opened wider in the past year? If it has not been raining/snowing as much in the Rockies as it usually does, then the same amount of water is somewhere else. I wonder where. Also, I wonder if Lake Powell has been going down at the same rate.
Originally Posted By jonvn "If it has not been raining/snowing as much in the Rockies as it usually does, then the same amount of water is somewhere else." That is part of the effect of global warming. You should watch the Al Gore movie.
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<Also, I wonder if Lake Powell has been going down at the same rate.>> Yes
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn I've watched his movie. Just wondering where the water is. Has the sea level had any measurable rise in the past several decades?
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy << Has the sea level had any measurable rise in the past several decades? >> As a matter of fact, yes.
Originally Posted By jonvn "Has the sea level had any measurable rise in the past several decades?" Yes. We're going to lose a lot of people if we don't fix this problem pronto. But, you know, the planet can only sustain so many people. There simply is no way, for example, that 400000000 trillion people could live on the earth. Eventually a die off has to happen in some form or another. Maybe that's what global warming is going to be all about. It will kill a few hundred million folks. Or a couple billion even, maybe. Who knows. So it's a good thing.
Originally Posted By dshyates ""If it has not been raining/snowing as much in the Rockies as it usually does, then the same amount of water is somewhere else." How many times has Houston been completely underwater in the past 8 years. 6 I think we found some of the water.
