@@FordTough2013 most people have rocks or desert landscape instead of green grass that’s more of a Cali problem desert landscape is much preferred because of its very low maintenance and cost
@@lastrayden0220 What does me eating have to do with foreign farms growing crops and cattle to ship to their states and countries? Why don’t those places grow their own food with their own water instead of using Arizona’s?
Right in the middle will be a perpetual flame powered by natural gas. We actually had one at our Vietnam memorial, but the protesters wrecked it long ago.
Oh my Lord, got out of AZ 10 years ago for this very reason. Too many master planned communities being erected in desert environment. Cannot sustain that many people.
I left Phoenix in July 1990 and don't miss it. I came back about 8 or so times to visit relatives but after mom died in 2014 I was done. My siblings can come and visit me instead. I'm in Arkansas and we have freedom here, no HOAs, plenty of rain to avert fires cheaper gas prices, etc. Not perfect by any means but it was ten steps better.
This is old. The real number is 25.01% full. And 350.000 acre feet is being held back, this will be released over April - June. So in reality it’s about 23% full.
You seriously want to send police arrest and shoot people who grow grass and have pools? Just adjust the price for the supply and demand and people will change their behavior. I don't understand why people jump to violence every time there is a problem.
I'm Navajo I only 10 gallons a week for cooking, cleaning and hygiene. And Navajo Nation should have water. Some people don't have running water. Navajo Nation has the right to receive water.
Los Angeles will be in the shit in 2-3 years. Then Northern Cali will not have enough to divert to the aquaduct yet they keep building more and more houses and golf courses.
@@richardgalli7262 Those dryer times have lasted 20 years. Global warming deniers are morons. Go take Ivermectin as it works on worm eating morons like you. Imagine living in the desert and being stupid enough to support golf courses.
Illicit activities gambling and drinking ain't got nothing to do with a metropolitan area conserving the water .... Las Vegas and other desert cities have to work on the amount of water they use with people do on their personal time it a separate thing
Actually, Arizona, you are really frugal with water. But here in Southern California we are unbelievably wasteful with it. And no one talks about it. We have _green_ lawns, _green_ roadsides, etc. Why can’t we learn from AZ and have desert scapes for our yards and in every public area? What is wrong with us? 😶
My first thought was "oh no, stuck up golfers won't have very nice grass to play on" but then i remembered, watering the desert for a very small minority to enjoy, is the American way and that will be the last thing effected. There are 300 golf courses in Arizona. Most of them will fight tooth and nail to get more than their share of water (it has in fact been happening for years)
"Our own survival is at stake." Arizona is using up its groundwater, researchers warn. Groundwater is still over-pumped in most of the state's "active-management areas," or AMAs. And in many places, aquifer levels continue to decline. Arizona State University warns that groundwater has been seriously overallocated under the current laws, allowing for unsustainable pumping that threatens the state's water future. They say the state's leaders urgently need to reform Arizona's groundwater rules to safeguard these finite reserves and prevent aquifers from continuing to drop. -the Arizona Republic by Ian James
Who's bright idea was to build a city of Phoenix size in the middle of the sonora desert!? You cant expect a city to maintain a big city life with limited natural resources of a desert
Land developers, speculators, real estate sales people, etc. is who. In fact, they have not slowed down. I can hear the sales pitches now: "Don't worry, buy now before prices go up." "There's plenty of water in sub-terrerian aquaphors." "This is only a temporary drought, things will get better before you know it." To be honest, I hate living close to Canada because of long winters, but it sure is nice to have water when and where you need it.
You're so misinformed, it's not cities fool, it's farmers growing thirsty crops like cotton and rice. That's 90% of the water being used. Man, I wish people weren't so stup**
People said in 1985 that Phoenix would eventually have severe water shortages but the powers at large shrugged it off and instead developers built more than a million new homes and more water guzzling golf courses. Glad I left Phoenix over three decades ago.
Its interesting to hear the guy from the bureau talk about the water. When it was built and allocations assigned, its had been a very wet 6 decades vs historical periods. And now its gone back to normal.
We were saying in 1985 that this would happen but no one would believe anyone. In the meantime developers built another million+ new homes and got filthy rich and skipped out leaving the water problem to others. I left the rat race of Phoenix five years later.
Golf courses are such a waste. Even with reclaimed water the amount that's lost due to evaporation and grass growth itself means fresh water has to constantly be added to the supply. Then unlike a park, the paying customers benefit. The amounts of acreage dedicated to the small amount of people using them are wasteful. Some luxury crops like almonds in CA are also very water intensive and should not be grown in drought areas. Weed while I have no fundamental issues with it is a huge waste of water and is a large problem in drought states like CA. Crops like soybeans provide lots of protein and use far less water then cattle for beef. If you like meat (I do), let them graze on Golf courses. Golfers can pound sand or learn to make courses out of drought resistant grass as some have.
There is no drought. There is very high population growth in Las Vegas as Arizona. On average, rainfall has been relatively constant for thousands of years. It is the population that has exploded. The lakes and dams were never intended to handle this level of population growth. Yes they were designed to handle years of drought, but at much lower population levels. We should be talking more about population control, but that is a taboo conversation and verboten by the media and our government alike. Climate change is a pretext for governments to help themselves to your wallet. When programmable digital currency happens, the WEF has plans to require us to purchase green products with little to no demand, or you will be penalized. In other words...buy our products or we will pick your pockets and make your life very difficult. Sounds like servitude to the government, to me.
You're so misinformed, it's not cities fool, it's farmers growing thirsty crops like cotton and rice. That's 90% of the water being used. Man, I wish people weren't so stup**
Being from the Pacific Northwest, I just don't understand the Southwest. How could people be so wildly naïve to think that building huge cities and neighborhoods in the desert would pan out? Eastern Oregon is very dry, and as a result, not too many people live out there. Despite the fact that they're also experiencing drought, they also don't have any big cities out there or giant golf courses. It's so wild people are still moving to the Southwest...property is gonna be worth squat once all the water just dries up.
You're so misinformed, it's not cities fool, it's farmers growing thirsty crops like cotton and rice. That's 90% of the water being used. Man, I wish people weren't so stup**
The main item animals including humans need is water! We can't live without it The southwest is getting drier and drier . Severe drought conditions will persist with the population climbing.I would get out now while housing is up ,perfect time to move.In a few years it will be too late.
The water is dropping because more people are moving to the southwest. It is also dropping because of an increasing drought throughout the west. Colorado has seen increasing drought in the last two decades leading a decrease in the snow pack which means less water going down the Colorado to the reservoirs. Right now the snow pack in west Colorado is 98 %. But many, many successive years of normal snow pack are needed to replenish the reservoirs.
There are in fact other ways that researchers can evaluate the climate going hundreds and even thousands of years through fields like Dendrochronology and geologic evidence. So in reality authorities have a lot more ways to track the past climate conditions then just the records of the last 100 years.
@@eaglethree1 Longer droughts are more likely now then for quite some time into the past. As the climate warms further already dry regions will see even less precipitation.
Rain isn't what Arizona needs as much as many years of a normal snow pack in west Colorado. This it is at 98%, but the trend is toward drought and less snow!
I study was done some years ago on diverting some water from here in Canada but nothing became of it. Considering just how much water we get annually I’m surprised there’s no talk of it.
If the hard choices keep getting put off it will be more painful down the road. Water allocation to farmers using spray irrigation for water intensive crops that are exported out of the region should be cut. Drip irrigation or none. Enact a moratorium on new building permits, restrict or prohibit watering of grass lawns and golf courses, require cities and towns and large farmers to engage in rainwater harvesting and grey water reclamation. It will take a concerted effort with an all of the above approach to water use. Waiting until the canals are empty and the taps are turned off due to lack of supply is foolish bordering on insanity.
@@mtngrl88 I mentioned them also. People can't move to a desert and expect to have lush grass lawns like back east and golf courses that use hundreds of thousands of gal. of water.
You're so misinformed, it's not cities fool, it's farmers growing thirsty crops like cotton and rice. That's 90% of the water being used. Man, I wish people weren't so stup**
You're so misinformed, it's not cities fool, it's farmers growing thirsty crops like cotton and rice. That's 90% of the water being used. Man, I wish people weren't so stup**
And yet they're still letting developers destroy our desert lands and build thousands of new homes (like they've been doing the last 50+ years) If the population stayed like it was say in about 1960 (about 300,000) things would probably be much better but no it's grow grow grow out of proportion to make developers rich. I left the Phoenix rat race 32 years ago and don't miss it. Here we get 40 inches of rain every year, seldom any fire danger.
@@TEmery They don't get much rain. The majority of the precipitation falls on the mountains as snow in winter and then melts. That is why the snow pack is such a key indicator of how much water they can expect to get
The politician made this problem! Permanent Fix: CA uses 109 cubic km a year. The Columbia lose 236 cubic km into The Pacific every year - What a waste. Only 1 to 15% of this will fix thsi. CA should buy water from the North. You only need a 358m/573km long tunnel, that is easy (China new Aquaducts are more expensive and advanced).
You are grossly mistaken. The water flowing from the Columbia River into the Pacific Ocean is not wasted just because you can't have any of it. Regardless, there are homes for sale along the Columbia River if you want it so bad, move. Then again, maybe people living in the Pacific Northwest like the Columbia River and are not willing to part with it just to keep golf courses green in Arizonia. Look somewhere else for your water or move.
@@kennyw871 I think you are among the 10% Jordan Petterson are refering to, when he talk about IQ. Or you think The Pasific, will sue you, if 10% are sold to CA?
@@kennyw871 You not want big money, jobs (and many jobs for years to come). Your loss not my loss. 1 000 $ ekstra for food. Enjoy! ... I got a Colorado size river outside my window, and I share it whit 250 k peopole, not 40 millions, I be fine.
@@kennyw871 I’ve responded to this crackpot a dozen times. He simply doesn’t get it. He knows nothing about western water law, nothing about the utterly failed history of such proposals and ignores the ridiculous economics making such proposals laughable.
Really, there is a drought in Northern CA where I live. The snow melt that supplies the water that is fed into the aqueduct is far smaller then it used to be. Oregon is in the same boat and NW Washington is the place on the West coast with loads of water. That's a long pipe. Why not a 3000 miles or more pipeline from the great lakes to Los Angeles? Please look up the problems the Chinese are having with failing Dams and water pipeline projects. They are a mess. Do your research before making claims. And by the way, let golfers pound sand.
But how many football fields will it hold ? The whole report makes no sense if we don't know how many football fields will fit into it. April has a really sassyass though. I'd love to see more of her
That's what's horrible, the cuts were planned for 2023, but the situation is so bad that they have to start in 2022. They mitigation reserves won't be enough for 2022.
Crossing your fingers for fifty years and hoping there will be more water available every year seems to have backfired. Bad strategy. Flood irrigation is terribly wasteful. I’m from Wisconsin and was shocked to see flood irrigation used on desert farms. Slaps reason right in the face.
water shortages but their building a huge water park in peoria,casios in Las Vagas all those pool, houses with pools everywhere, golf courses !!!!! Come you can charge triple for water and people are not going to change their habits or companies change their usage
You're so misinformed, it's not cities fool, it's farmers growing thirsty crops like cotton and rice. That's 90% of the water being used. Man, I wish people weren't so stup**
@Baby Blu3 Nevada's share of the water is only 4%. Nevada doesn't even use the full 4%. From what I understand about 90% of the water use is agriculture. In Arizona there are vast fields of cotton and even rice! Some of which are owned by foreign countries who could care less about water use or lake Mead. When they make videos they really need to do their research and tell the truth. Of course that's asking a bit too much.
So you support farms from Minnesota, Saudi Arabia and Dubai growing crops and cattle with AZ water to ship back to their states and countries? That food isn’t for Arizonans.
WATER CUTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN ONGOING FOR YEARS AS WASTE IS THE #1 REASON FOR MILLIONS OF GALLONS GONE. EVERY HOME SHOULD HAVE A SENSOR WHERE EVERY GALLON IS RECORDED AND WATCHED. MANY HAVE AN ATTITUDE OF "NO ONE IS GOING TO TELL ME HOW MUCH WATER I CAN USE"!!!
Jeremiah 50:37-39 "A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered. A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols. So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation." Revelation 17:4-5 "The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup🗽 full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH _________________________________________________________ 'The New Colossus' Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame (nude male) With conquering limbs astride from land to land; (Colossus of Rhodes, Babylon) Here at OUR sea-washed, SUNSET GATES shall stand A mighty woman with a torch🗽 whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name: Mother of Exiles *Lazarus* ___________________________________________________ Jeremiah 51:6-7 "Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves. Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad."
Solution for the West's water shortage problems. Build major pipelines and canals from the Pacific Ocean to flood inland seas that are currently deserts up to 200 feet or more below sea level, including Death Valley. Animal life there would flourish. And they would act as huge bird sanctuaries and as a much more interesting tourist attraction. These become inland fish farms for tropical saltwater food fish. They would also act as source for major desalination plants that pipe millions of gallons of fresh water per month to southern Nevada and to Arizona. There will be a need for one major one-billion-dollar desalination plant for each million in population. California would need 40 plants, which would supply 1500 gallons of fresh water a month to each California resident. We use solar, wind, tidal and wave power to power the process. California would need to add another 20 billion to the process for the energy sources and infrastructure. Their plants would be along the coast. Arizona and Nevada would pull water from the new inland seas and their residents would pay for it. Nevada would need three plants and Arizona would need 8. We are looking at about 100 billion for the majority of the project, which would save three states from their short sightedness. These states would also need to embrace grey water systems for homes and businesses from water not tainted with human waste and soaps. The rest of the water can be sent down sewers systems that can treat the water for farmers and the waste as well by turning them into worm castings to aid farmers as a form of fertilizer and for locals as well for home gardening. No smell, just perfect nutrients for your plants. It will probably end up being closer to 150 billion, but the end result is where we should have been decades ago. We can fund it with the savings from bringing all of our soldiers home and station them in and around the U.S. and its territories and by handing over all our foreign military bases to our allies along with 25% of the savings realized so they can keep them open, in the event they are needed. Then we give our military 25% of the savings so they can improve upon defenses in an around the U.S. and its territories, leaving us with 50% of the savings to fund said program.
Plenty of water in the northwest .. imagine a canal system carrying water from there to south west in the capacity of the Mississippi.. too bad we had to blow all that money in the middle east and on the war on drugs
The government needs to build desalination plants and pump water into the lake Powell and lake mead. 20 years of drought. There could be another 20 years of drought. Cities are growing and population are growing this is the 2022. There is no other option.
There is a very clear option. Conserve water from overuse of non Arizona farms using Arizona water. Lake Mead is like 1 million acre-feet below thresholds for water cuts, and people propose desalination which is like$1-2 billion to create roughly 5ok acre-feet. It would be the most expensive project in state history for water by multiple times to produce that much water. Then guess what happens? Because desalination is energy intensive and more expensive the people will get to pay more for water on top of subsidizing the project.
@@basedoz5745 California has gas and oil in the ground to run the desalination plants. Without a really wet winter in the mountain ranges that feed the Colorado that will put us at this point every year
Desalination plants to pump water to Lakes Mead and Powell would be a penny wise pound foolish venture. Besides the high expense of desalination plants there is also the expense of pumping that water to the Arizona reservoirs and much of that water would be lost to evaporation. The more likely scenario is that because these drought conditions are likely to continue and even worsen serious thought to the carrying capacity needs to start with all of the states of the southwest. This may include putting a moratorium on new arrivals coming into the state unless an equal number leave. If people think this is extreme then wait until Lakes Mead and Powell drop down to dead pool status and maybe they will reconsider. Of course before that even happens we'll be in a serious crisis!!
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 that would accomplish the exact opposite of what you think. Arizona saves water through population growth. Why? Because despite suburban sprawl having its own problem, as people move to the state they mostly replace that farmland with homes. This is why the state uses less water now than it did 50 years ago when the Phoenix metro was largely an agriculture city. The problem is the farms in California and Arizona. For some reason we allow farms from Minnesota with its many lakes and rivers to raises thousands of dairy cows in the desert. We allow corporate farms from Saudi Arabia and Dubai to grow feed to ship back to their counties. This is absolutely ridiculous water use and should be banned, and would actually save far more water than banning people moving to the state.
