Megadrought Emergency In Grand Canyon 

I’ve been in the turf industry my whole life. I can confidently say if they really cared about the water levels dropping they’d shut down the golf courses out there. You don’t want to know how much water the golf courses use trust me.

The Hoover Dam was the beginning of the end of the Colorado River, and the water tables that surround its banks. That affects the evaporative system, which then affects weather. Less water in the ground means less moisture in the air, and less rain over time. National Geographic had an entire edition dedicated to this issue, 31 years ago.

It wasn’t like we weren’t warned. We caused this. We can only blame ourselves.

"Only when the last tree has died, and the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish been caught, will we realize that money can't be eaten." Cree Tribe Proverb.

I had a native American elder tell me that they will run out of water in the west. I didn't believe him but I do now. Miss you Eddie.

California needs to switch to desalinization and Arizona needs to give up agricultural irrigation. Taking all the natural fresh water in an arid region is devastating to the species dependent on it.

Awesome! The water level will be so low it won't be able to generate electricity on top of the millions of people who will be without drinking water. Guess they'll have to move since they refused to change their lifestyles and do something about the climate crisis. Who knew that inaction had consquences? Oh, wait...

Cities and farms in a desert was going to backfire on the US southwest sooner or later. It was a good 120 year run though.

I’m so glad I sold my house in Vegas 3 years ago. A day will come (soon) when people will wake up and try to flee Las Vegas… but won’t be able to sell their properties. They will leave empty handed.

Thank you, Water for being there. Forgive us, that we exploited you and took advantage of your humble power. Love and Peace. Amen

"...the two lakes that fuel the river..."?! What the heck are you talking about? Lake Powell and Lake Mead don't "fuel" the Colorado. They are man-made reservoirs that are part of the problem. There are fifteen major dams along the Colorado River, each one of them stopping the natural ebb and flow, as well as impounding silt. The Colorado is the world's siltiest river ... "too thick to drink, too thin to plow" according to the pioneers that first laid eyes on it, and instead of flowing down to the Gulf of California, and supporting countless eco systems along the way, silt now just settles in the reservoirs. Eventually, as the silt continues to build up, these "lakes" will just fill up and turn into mud pits. It might take a couple hundred years, but it's an immutable fact. Humans are a pretty short-sighted species O_o

Very sad. 40 years ago we used to rent a motorboat near Vegas, and go down the Colorado River. SO beautiful and the water was ICE COLD.

In college in AZ 10+ years ago it was taught as common sense that this is exactly what was going to happen and now here we are listening to people talk like it’s not exactly what everybody involved knew was happening. People just want to pretend we’re unstoppable until negative effects are catastrophic…

My uncle, a republican, legitimately thinks this can be solved by stretching a water hose to Lake Powell and turning it on because "when he built his pool that's how they filled it and it only took about 3 days." This man was being 100% serious.

I really hope I live my time on this earth before the climate becomes unbearable. Nobody wants to be around when we can't sustain ourselves and when summer becomes dangerous

Remember all those doomsday movies where we keep saying "that only happens in movies?" Climate change happens yeah, but human activity has contributed significantly to accelerating the cycle. Sure the earth will eventually recover, but I'm afraid it'll come at a significant human cost. Droughts, crop failures, food shortages, hotter temperatures with increasingly wilder weather fluctuations can only mean one thing. Humans are getting closer and closer to their expiration and it's not going to be pretty.

Our country is on track to repeat the early 1900s, pandemic, recession, major drought and resource shortage, war.

It's not a mega drought, stop saying that, it's aridification. A drought is temporary, this is a gradual shift to a permanent change in the biome.

I work in the hospitality industry! I can't tell you the amount of people who ask me for water and don't even drink it!! Like why ask and waste it. I think all states should have a charge fee starting now if you ask and don't finish your water!!

Excessive heat, Incivility of man, politics, and food shortages... looking forward to thew next ten years, if we get there.

I’m from southern nevada and can say this has been an issue for a long while now. When I was a child the water levels were much higher than they are now. It’s a result of irresponsibility and lack of accountability. I’m tired of seeing golf courses in the desert and water hitting concrete.

1960: pollution is going to get worse we should do something! 2022: pollution is worse we should do something!

It took nature millions of years to organize rivers and streams and when man decides to use the river for creating wealth it throws a spanner in the works .

it's a domino effect, if lake mead is going dry so will everything else beyond mead

Imagine if Al Gore won the Presidency back in 2000….. His entire platform was running on us starting the fight against Climate Change. Instead we went into Afghanistan for oil

Simple solution Quick shower in 2 minutes Eat less, don’t waste foods Plant more trees Be single or have 1 or 2 children is max, I’m single and less stressed. Together we can make a big different to our world 🌎.

This is really depressing considering when I visited with my twins who are now 22 there was so much water my daughters were in awe. Now it will never be the same if we don't change this world.

This has been coming for years, as someone who lives in Arizona and has been warned over and over again about water conservation and droughts. Nobody listened and now we're here.

Keep moving here everyone

An earth without hoomans ( me included) is the happiest earth.

Fun fact: All of these desert states are full of lush green golf courses, houses with green lawns, farms that grow plants that require tons of water, and companies and drill for ground water and use as much as they want without being stopped. Arizona has thousands of groundwater pumps, some pumping 3000 Gallons per min…

Imagine how much water is bottled now compared to 20 years ago.

The earth will get rid of us one day and slowly repair itself.

twenty two years of constant drought, and nothing done about it. brilliant

Oh what a massive shock. Not like people haven't seen this coming for 50 years lmao

Look beyond the river. The entire landscape lacks trees and other mechanisms to keep the heat down. Doesn’t help that people manipulate the river for electricity and mass usage. Many solutions, but how fast we can get there is the question.

Overpopulation but people won't admit that it's a problem.

And ppl are still breeding. Humanity is a joke noone gets. Pathetic.

Park Superintendent Ed has to choose his words carefully, that’s the power of big oil

I like how act surprised when we all know what’s the problem

I as a foreigner, visited glen canyan dam and hoover dam, twice with my family. This huge impact on 40m people is not a joke. God bless this ground have a good fate

Thanks a lot people.

What no one is saying: there's too many humans on this planet.

Almond farming for those “healthy milk” alternatives are a huge factor in low water levels

Well, there are desalination plants all over the world and even though it's super expensive, the US government has wasted many times the amount it would cost to build a few of these plants.

"Some stress"???? Is that superintendent smoking crack...that is the understatement of the millennium

I thought it looked a little low when we drove through the mountains in Colorado, but this is insane.

You can't call it a drought if it's been happening for over 20 yrs. You just call it the new normal.

if the united states came together, we MIGHT be able to make a world of change. we need to be united in change.

Drought?? Phoenix valley has gotten rain every night the past month. I’m in Mesa and we have gotten rain every night the last month, I work on ACs and there’s called left and right with plugged units due to all the humidity

This is really scary! This can really hurt the community's around it. If it drys up, they all will have to do something drastic

Some gentleman on here posted a dash cam video of him driving into the lot of the lake Powell visitor’s center. His two major takeaways, 1. The visitor’s center has real grass 2. the sprinklers weren’t set correctly and were watering the asphalt. 😤

Thank goodness that even though I wanted kids, I chose to never have any. Only because I saw what we did to the Earth. The problem is most Parents in the United States don't really care about their children. If they did, they would've stopped the destruction a long time ago. So, great job parents. This is children's future.

When I was in Form Two in1974, that was 48 years ago; my class Teacher always like to talk about the Grand Canyon in America. She really love the Grand Canyon. She had profound knowledge about the Grand Canyon. We all never hear about the Grand Canyon before. She told my class that she really wished to visit the Grand Canyon in the future. I did not know whether she had visited the Grand Canyon or not because she had been transferred to another school in 1975. Hope her dream will come true.

Politically and culturally, we are focused on so many polarizing issues, while saving the planet we live on should definitely be a priority for EVERY HUMAN!

So let’s talk about a solution yet I’ve only heard a bunch of Uhh Ohh’s

But Nestle is still in business in California? How the actual f**k?

We did this to ourselves. Everyone wants to ignore it, now it is killing us.

Is it possible that we have a water issue globally because of all the bottled water they sale? It wasn't a necessity 25yrs ago. I'm just asking out of curiosity.

As Tony Soprano would say: *What’re ya gonna do?*

"Why spend billions trying to find a new planet to live on. Rather than spending billions to fix the problems here on earth" I will let that sink in for a sec!!

Truth is theres to many people...

The US Southwest is about to face abandonment in a bigger scale then Detroit once did, once the water goes so will the people

No water no fish no ducks no deer,no crops. Could saving spring runoff help fix this problem?

This may be a dumb question but if the can build pipelines crossings Alaska, why can’t they build pipelines from areas prone to flooding and pump the water to the river?

Here on the east coast, we get rain almost every day. It’s a paradise, but don’t even think about moving here.....we literally have no vacancies.

Fish are less healthy because of the lower water level and higher temperatures... so... let's keep fishing until there are no more left.

Wow speechless

Man this is sad and scary we are killing the earth every day man this 💔 no cap 🙏🏾

Correction. The lakes are not lakes, they are reservoirs. They do not feed the river, the river feeds them. The problem is the reservoirs and the fact that the they power cities to the south. The river would be fine without the industry of reservoir power stations. We are having a monsoon in southern Utah currently and the river is flowing big.

Here’s what we do, we built a pipe from California to the Grand Canyon. When the Arkstorm hits the flood that will follow can be diverted to the Arizona boarder. Thus preventing the storm from flooding California and channeling thousands of gallons of water to the drought affected areas.

Megadrought? more like direct human intended scenario. Waters are taken for city use and as always this is about money.

The way we have been living as humans has been so wrong , and we knew and saw this coming so now pacha mama is just doing what she has to do to balance it all out. But were too far gone, so brace yourself.

Get rid of Lake Powell permanent and open Glen Canyon Dam permanently. Total collapse? They never should have built the dam in the first place. We now have a chance to restore Glen Canyon to what it was and what it should be

The earth is a living organism like the human body once something goes wrong everything starts to go wrong

Greedy people taking too much water. No reason at all to be farming in the desert, or building houses in the wilderness.

Feeling sorry for the "WILDLIFE ," NOT MANKIND , building cities in the middle of a desert with Golf Course was so naive ."

Luv seeing stories like this plz keep them coming

And the human population in the western United States continues to grow. More people means more water needed. More farms in California means less water for the people. California is the largest grower of Almonds in the world. Even when Almond tree’s are not producing in the fall, they still need water.

Idk how you see that and not believe global warming is real. This is incredibly sad

The earth will flourish after the human species is gone.

How come all these places are drying up but not the ocean.

Everyone knows we are having a terrible drought in the Southwestern part of the USA, right??? Especially the area that relies on the Colorado river for water. At least that is the media’s reporting of events. That is what all the climate maps show, right? But is that really accurate? I tend to believe over population and too much agriculture is the major problem with our reservoirs and not “droughts”. The Southwest has grown in leaps and bounds over the past 50 years. Yes, a good rain/snow year or two would be helpful, but IMO just a band-aide. I submit to you the following: For the 2022 water season, the Colorado River Basin is at 99% of it’s normal precipitation. (actually is is now at 102%, since I originally posted this, the water season ends at the end of September) For the 2021 water season, the upper Colorado River Basin received 80% of it’s normal precipitation. For the 2020 water season, the upper Colorado River Basin received 81% of it’s normal precipitation. For the 2019 water season, the upper Colorado River Basin received 120% of it’s normal precipitation. So for the past 4 years The upper Colorado River Basin, on the average has received 95% of it’s normal precipitation. Is that a drought or is that slightly below average??? That being said, 4 years ago Lake Powell’s volume was nearly double of what it is today. That is a huge drop off, yet the precipitation was only slightly below the norm. Too many people with a straw in the drink! links to the data I mentioned: (please look at these sites via a desk top computer or at least a lap top. A cell phone’s screen will not show enough data.) elmontgomery.com/status-of-arizona-surface-water-supplies-august-2022/ lakepowell.water-data.com/ lakemead.water-data.com/ btw: there is a drop down box in the upper left hand corner of the lake mead and lake Powell data bases which shows data for other reservoirs on the Colorado river. pay special attention to Mohave and Havasu as they are both south of Mead. Powell is north of Mead. Keep in mind, Powell feeds Mead, Mead feeds Mohave, Mohave feeds Havasu. Havasu has the aqueducts which feed California! Currently Lake Powell is at about 25% full, Mead is about 27% full. Havasu and Mohave are both about 95% full. It is well known that Lake Mead is down a lot in volume this year. But do you realize that the inflow of water to Lake Mead is at about 130% of it’s normal inflow for this date! Rivers feeding Lake Powell are running at 98.41% of the Aug 21st avg. Click for Details This adds more to the theory, there are just too many straws in the drink! Too many people and farms using water.

Pretty soon dolphins are gonna be like “So long, and thanks for all the fish!”

All because we use so much water on the meat industry. The rich water their grass everyday. No one is willing to make sacrifices.

You have been warned for years. If you didn’t pay attention it’s your fault at this point. You had time you had info you had opportunity.

Meanwhile, keep flushing your toilets with drinking water. And flush after every visit! Keep letting the faucets run while you brush your teeth. Water your lawns five times a week. Waste. Waste. Waste. I could give you some easy suggestions that don't cost a dime but you wouldn't be bothered. You won't be bothered until you turn the faucet and nothing comes out. You know who you are.

*Imagine being in the 19th year of a drought before anyone took it seriously.* Oh, wait, you don't even have to imagine it.

AZ is gross now. Too many people.

How long did it take for them to realize about this? Humanity never really cared until the last moment

ITS COLORADO WATER FROM THE START REMEMBER THAT!

To paraphrase Sam Kinnison; 'DON'T LIVE IN THE DESERT!!!"

End of days🙏🏾

I mean the whole southwest was and has been essentially a desert area for how long now? Did we think it was gonna get wetter?

The demand for water has increased 3x over the past twenty years as the populations of Phoenix and Las Vegas have grown rapidly and continues to grow at an exponential rate. Simple supply and demand metrics.

I hate how they show the severity of an alarming situation... then the closing is a happy invitation to subscribe and all... almost like "AAAHH JUST KIDDING, IT AIN'T THAT SERIOUS, THANKS FOR THE VIEW"... 🙄

This is so heartbreaking 💔 I used to run river trips on the Colorado as a kid. I can't believe we've let our earth 🌎 down so badly 😢

Our planet is screwed

Now would be a really good time to take a few trash cans and or bags and don't forget the gloves and walk the shores of any waterways lakes - streams and pick up trash ( make sure we aren't expecting rain so no one gets caught in a flash flood ) .. It's really going to help in the long run ... Thank you to those already doing this 🌎... 👍

It’s such an emergency that we’re not going to do anything significant