Glen Canyon Dam Emergency: Damaged Pipes Threaten Millions 

That caught my attention as well. Still, I appreciate the updates this channel provides; Mr. Bomb does a generally fantastic job.

@BomageMinimart I do too.

Imagine what The Grand Canyon would look like if it were only 15 or so miles long!

You can blame California for flooding the desert in the imperial valley to grow hay for Chinese cows. They flood that valley 7 feet deep every year. They use 75% of lake mead. It should go back to being a desert.

and the rain that does fall isn't harvested and stored properly. It’s actually illegal in some places to harvest rain water and keeping it for use because they say mosquito issues and public health. Also recycling water would go a long way and making pool covers mandatory when not in use. I wonder how much it would cost to cover large portions of the reservoirs w a sun cover of some type to offset evaporation. having water reservoirs exposed to the sun is counter productive in my opinion. I'm not sure if we can eliminate the root problem of people settling in the desert. If California wasn't the main produce producer for the US then less water would be used but that aint happening. The large growers sell internationally as well and the ones who suffer are the people. we dont see any benefit from large growers using a lot of water to. sell their product for profit. at least I dont see that in any wage I earn or checks I get. so why do we have to suffer water shortages for no benefit to the people. I can live w out almonds year round or avocados year round. I know there's other water hog plants, I actually grow both those trees. Birds tend to leave me w little almonds. and the dang squirrels. and my avocado fuerte makes more then enough for my family and friends of family. but not when we. can't use water. the peoples trees suffer but the big business ones still get their water. they still see loses but they grow for profit. I grow for health and to save money from having to buy it. anyways. they need to build houses that are eco friendly. water harvesting. no drip faucets. ac requires solar panels or no ac and if you need it at night then whatever. if you put a fan in the attic it will vent out all that hot air. outside watering only at night. cuz evaporation. etc. but ya if people just didnt live in an arid climate then there wouldn't be a problem. but if you look at the globe and this is just my view on deserts. I understand the tropic of cancer globally has the most deserts in and I understand how mountains like the Himalayas can block moisture so geographically there's gonna be deserts....but to me humans are like locusts. if you believe we all started off in the Fertile Crescent which is in modern day Iraq....if you look at where there's desert there's remnants of past civilizations. I think humans suck the resources dry in places they inhabit w no regard to being in harmony with the land that feeds them and what they drink from. I look at deserts as places that once had green but then man came and overproduced and basically scared the land from all the ways that we destroy the earth. but the powers to be will say climate change earths axis our solar orbit fluctuating. volcanoes which is prob true... continental drift etc. no one says well it’s prob arid desolate and devoid of life or plants or water cuz maybe humans f'd it up. lol. pretty sure humans scar the earth and in my opinion those scars are deserts. minus the obv geographical deserts that have mountains blocking ocean moisture. my favorite right now is plastic. recycle recycle. re use re use .. how about stop making it. lol no instead the companies produced more plastic products on top of what was being recycled. thank you big business... lol.

Engrish, do you speak it?

Just aren’t too good at spelling huh

@@markmcarthy596 tua mater ist stultum 🤷‍♀

The video was created by AI.

I just read every comment, which comments be the robots?

There was a cavitation problem at Hoover Dam, and they came up with a fix for that.

@@HardRockMaster7577vortex generators.

This is nonsense.

@@LTV_inc Are you speaking of the video or my comment, which by the way is correct. Study some science !

@@benth162 you are not that bright are you?

Then please explain in detail what you believe I got wrong instead of just acting like a troll. You need to produce facts !

Do you have a link to it?

@@BackyardBeeKeepingNuevo Can’t post links as a user. Do search with the words: PBS Terra Flooding . You’ll know it when you see it. It’s about a week or two old tops.

The creator behind Timebomb is definitely not ignorant. Was just an oversight. Leaving it in is actually quite funny. It's one of the those #'s/sentences that couldn't possibly be true. This person analyzes all this stuff and has for at least several years. So no way are they ignorant. It's not really worth deleting and resending everywhere - that shit takes time. And it's an error that 95% of listeners know upon hearing it. Leave it in for a chuckle lol.

Forever Fight?

There is less water in the Colorado River because Denver interest( east slope) steal water. check out the NEW Chimney Hollow Reservoir. This is being built north of Fort Collins on a valley that has no water flow. No creek. No river. All water is being stolen from west slope of Colorado.

How far downstream are the head waters AKA Lake Mead?

​@@inspectorraycharles Not exactly sure what you mean by "headwaters" in this context, but hopefully this answers your question: Right now, Lake Mead begins 310 miles downstream of the Glen Canyon Dam (the end of Lake Powell) and 52 miles upstream of the Hoover Dam. Lake Mead (like other reservoirs and river-fed lakes) officially begins, and the Colorado River ends at the specific point where the Colorado River's current (flow / movement of the river water) stops completely as it enters the still, deep lake water backed up by the dam. Fun Fact: Precisely where the river ends and lake begins is not a set point. Rather, it moves upstream and downstream. The beginning of Lake Mead has actually moved 40 miles downstream over the last 25 years - shrinking the length of Lake Mead by over 43%. Constant and drastic changes in location are driven by constant and drastic changes in reservoir water levels, and to a lesser degree, the ever fluctuating flow volumes in the Colorado River. L:ow lake level = lake begins farther downstream. The effect of river flows is the reverse: higher flows = lake begins farther downstream.

The beginning of lake Mead depends on the elevation of the lake. As lake Mead rises, the beginning gets closer to Glen Canyon dam.

​@@inspectorraycharles That is what I said in my last comment. I just put it as the higher Lake Mead is, the farther from the Hoover Dam (and thus the closer to the Glen Canyon Dam) It just made more sense to use the Hoover Dam as the reference point since it is much closer to the lakes beginning - currently 52 miles downstream while Glen Canyon Dam is over 300 miles upstream. However, the elevation of the lake does not ALONE determine the lakes beginning. It also depends on the water volume and speed, or CFS (Cubic Feet per Second) flowing out of the river and into the lake. The higher the CFS,, the closer to Hoover Dam (and farther from Glen Canyon Dam) the lake begins. Again, the Lake elevation and River CFS directly influence where the lake begins by affecting where the River (flowing water) stops and the lake (still, non flowing water) begins.

There's a spaceship somewhere at the bottom of Lake Powell. 🙂

Is that 15 miles as the crow flies?

Vortex generators

@@grumpy3543 Williamson stipulateters?

@@DennisDelaney-fg4pw I have never heard of those.

@@grumpy3543 like wise?

@@DennisDelaney-fg4pw So did you just make up that name? Because I didn’t.

blame circles

the video maker is kinda stupid

he also says lake meade is 15 miles downstream. kinda dumb