Also not giving a flying f*ck about the severe drought in this entire region of the country helps. Where did the water get redirected from? 3 months to fill, but forever feeding it fresh water as it evaporates 100's or 1000's of gal a day....
@@TinRapper Sadly, there are not always opportunities, sometimes things are just terrible. People that die face down in the gutter understand this, but only for a very short period of time.
What became of the saltón sea the water became acidic because of the runoff from surrounding areas cows, urinating, drained into the lake and turned it acidic or salty
@@kennethmoses4900*LEGAL. He definitely meant legal. Why would he say this "SHOULDNT" be "illegal" that'd basically make no sense. Stop being a dumbasss and get your comprehension skills up bro 😂
I disagree sir... Millions of people are blessed with money... But how many have made a LAKE in the desert??? Thinking differently to make a beautiful and useful 24 acre paradise( in the desert 🏜) Very 😎 cool
@@angelaanderson7166 lol that water is going to evaporate and disappear eventually unless he keeps filling it up. One of the worst ways to waste your money.
A prime example of why the federal government is having to step in to get the states along the Colorado river to not be stupid. People are making golf courses and surf lagoons in the middle of the desert in states where water is a finite resource.
@@danc2014 a fraction might make it back into the aquifer but a lot of it is going to evaporate and float away. If you've ever seen pictures of telephone/power poles with year signs at certain heights that's showing how high the ground was at that point in time, as the ground water is removed the land above it becomes unstable and starts to shift which can result in sinkholes and damaged roads/bridges/houses/etc, some insurance providers might deny to fix it due to it being "an act of god" but in reality it's man made.
That's it, Arizona doesn't get any more water from the Colorado river lol It amazes me that hippies want to stop farming but somehow there's water for this kind of stuff..
The rest of the story: IIRC when Arizona and other states out west were experiencing water shortages, this lake began to recede. The builder wanted to divert water from the Colorado River to keep his lake(s) full. A big uproar because the lake was nonessential, used mostly for recreation. I don’t remember how it turned out.
How did he fill it with water? Was it ground water? Was it from a river or rainey season? How did he keep it full? Humidity is in single digits in Az. 😮
This is Spring Mountain Ski Ranch....water pulled from what remains of the Gila River, which BTW, is 100% composed of treated sewage from Phoenix. Enjoy your stay.
@@JACKRABBIT-hd3dx What? You can't prevent the wake from a boat surely? Do you mean to minimize erosion of the bank from wakes or minimize propagation of reflected waves off the bank? My initial thought is that the only way to minimize wake production would be to design a better boat? Or is the lake so super shallow that the lake bed can affect the wake? Genuinely interested!
Australia tried to do this in the 60s… we wanted to “make the desert green” but it backfired massively, and we’re still experiencing financial and material repercussions to this day
As farmers are being forced to ration water because of an increasing water crisis in Arizona there’s a billionaire building his own personal lake in the middle of the desert. People kill me.
@@bigkings.8804 Water may be at a premium in Arizona but it is not as scarce as they want u to believe. I live in Tucson and have been studying the water situation for the past seven years. It's plentiful but the media doesn't want anyone to know that. As we speak, they are building a surf park and a beach park on 64 acres in Glendale complete with a 1200 room hotel. They know what they're doing and how much water is available in Arizona. Why do u believe just what the TV tells you?
@@georgetaylor9975not nearly as much as the Saudi’s alfalfa farms they have in Arizona . To feed their own cattle. The locals can’t shut down because, the Saudis own the land. And are using much more water every day than what you looking at in this video. 😢
I was on board before you added water. "I gotta do something with these 168 acres of land in the desert" Me : ... "So I started digging a big hole" Me : OOOOOHHHH BIG HOLE 😮😮😮 "I had a fleet of 24 earth moving machines" Me : YEAH BABY DIG THAT MOTHERFUCKA "And then I filled it with water" Me : ... Oh.
I forgot about that but you know what karma is a bitch, They keep abusing the planet and then they wonder why the hurricanes get worse. They wonder why these tornadoes are heading where they shouldn't have tornadoes. And they'd be like oh my God, we have all these wildfires. Yeah probably because you guys are destroying the planet
@@winterlinde5395 it will also never become toxic, and destroy the local ecology, and will never become an unusable open air toxic waste dump for the next couple centuries.
Amen, that water will evaporate... if the project were focused on really cultivating a forest (which is more possible than people might think) the water could be more sequestered, and local atmospheric conditions could actually change, precipitation begin to be induced.
@@spaceboy1997 It takes 20-25 years for them to suffer any real degradation but even then it's not like they stop working, they're just less efficient. 20 years is more than long enough to get a stock of replacement panels, and maybe expand, even with the expense of hiring a maintenance team as solar energy is very low maintenance.
I mean there is a reason there is no water in the desert, because there is no precipitation. Unless you dig so deep you find a natural source of water you will have to fill that lake with more and more water, again and again. And regarding the water crisis in arizona, this should be a crime 😵
If you dig deep enough to find a natural source of water in the Arizona desert, then you have tapped into the 'Basin & Range' aquifer which is being depleted at a rate faster than it can recharge.
@@MightyPenn erm...where did you divine that information? You'd need to plant forests, regenerate the soil biomes, and introduce fungi to trigger the rains. A random lake in the middle of the desert isn't going to do much, probably counterproductive for the sensitive ecosystem he just bulldozed through.
@Penelope Huffman Callantine Tell me you have no idea what you're talking about, without actually telling me that you have no idea what you're talking about..
Do you even know where he got the water? In a drought you're not allowed to use the city water bc everyone has to share... this man went and got his own water there's a big difference! Water is free #learnaboutit
Right with 186 acres, the funds to have a construction team work 8 hour shifts everyday for 3 months and then still the funds to create a water park. It ain't thinking differently I'd think most people could rattle off 10 ideas of what to do with that sort of resource.
You have good idea in enhancing a small water source by building a sanctuary with native plants and trees that encourage bugs and worms to make their home and build the soil. That way when rain does come, the water has some place to settle and to fill its stores. If left alone the oasis can expand on its own? That's what that rich man should have done as an experiment. i
Actually, these deserts were once all underwater. If everyone pitched in and did this everywhere, it wouldn't be a desert anymore and the deep water actually reaches a balance where it doesn't evaporate fast, but creates atmospheric conditions that cause it to rain more often. These deserts are actually a dried up lake bed.
@@cbzhicks the whole point to my comment obviously went over you head so I will try to explain it on a level a mongeloi could under stand. ...if water can be transported to the desert for recreational purposes then it can be transported to any place that its needed....
@@letsbehonest4221 Actually you have the water to begin with but for environmental reasons because these water projects get sued, they dump out so much water from the reservoirs. The amount they dump out is more than enough to handle all of your water needs.
@@letsbehonest4221 I recommend looking through the California insider RU-vid channel. There's been a couple speakers who talk about the water system and the damage of many lobbyist groups working with environmental groups
This little lake doesn't take that much water. Doesn't take as much as you think. Takes a lot sure but once you fill it up the first time, the water pumps kick on and keep it level and if takes less water than you'd think after that. For years and years and years. It's not deep bro. It's wide and not every deep. I have family that built one just like this in a barren desert also because it's the only logical place if you ask me. As odd as it sounds, it is. The deepest part in theirs is right in the middle and it's probably 5 feet deep or so. Once is filled the first time most of the water stays there and only a couple times a year does the water pumps kick on and top it off. It's not deep so it doesn't take that much water like you would think. They make it just deep enough for top quality professional water skiing. You can't high drive into it. If you dive into it head first you'll smash into the bottom. To kids it's great because maybe they can't touch the bottom in the very middle but I'm 6 feet tall and the one people in my family made that I visited 1 time, I can stand in the middle with my legs bent and my entire head above water. It takes a lot of water to fill but it's actually less deep than your average deep end of a swimming pool
@@TheAnnoyingBoss I estimate the water on this video is at least 1.4 million US gallons of water / 5.5 million litres. Based on your experience of your relative's being 5ft deep in the centre.
Guy gives this speech like it is something worthy of admiration and respect. Thinking outside of the box is admirable. Thinking outside the box to continue to line your already packed pockets with money by irresponsibly using desert "differently" by turning it into a water ski park is not cool, to say the least.
It’s so dumb the way the guy talks about it like it’s this amazing idea only someone like him who “thinks differently” could come up With. Jeez it really grinds my gears
Some people seem to believe that if something hasn't been done it is because no one thought of it. They can't seem to grasp that people might have thought of it but dismissed it as a wasteful and reckless use of dwindling resources.
He's FN BRILLIANT! Can't you see? [Sarcasm] If I want to play in water, I go where it flows naturally. Not in the middle of a dry desert. I wish guys like this would use their money to make a snow machine in the Harquahala mountains. LOL
This creative thinking is exactly what other investor's should experiment with.Obviously a win win situation that provides a way of thinking that assists our fragile environment that is experiencing & sustaining negative global warming effects.
Everything he added just kept showing how wealthy he was lol As soon as he said he contacted a fleet of 24 earth movers, I knew he was a millionaire haha No hate, this video is more like a fun suggestion for his friends to jump in on, rather than informative for the rest of us.
@@enric3469 guarantee your not one of them, hop off their dicks bro. The point is, most people dont have millions of dollars to change their property’s value. Small renovations are one thing, this story is a whole different level of developing a property. Were talking multi million dollar companies do this generally to build neighborhoods. Not build water parks lol
The first pictures of the land are images of the Sonoran Desert flood plains, a biologically rich area for southwest herpetological species. Oftentimes people choose desolate pictures to make it seem like a wasteland, but this is a haven for many endemic species and our desert is one of the planet's biodiversity hotspots.
well i personally don't think it's a 'biodiversity' hotspot when you think of the rainforest for example but yes it has been there for millenias and it nourishes it's niche
People only value and see rainforests and african savannas as important ecosystems apparently. Praries? Flatlands? savannas literally anywhere other than Africa? looks like a great place to fuck over!
That's the right way of thinking! When you have the resources to do anything with the least amount and turn it to a profit you should do it! I've done it several times ;) starting from nothing and it took me 10 years to finally retire at the age of 38 while having a family of 4
And then the high evaporation rate, due to the shallow depth to surface ratio, and the highly permeable unmodified soil resulted in extreme water loss. Then the area returned to desert.
@@Inga912"shouldn't be" doesn't make sense. It implies the desert is morally supposed to be a desert. In nature, things just are what they are and what happens to them is entirely up to the natural processes and animals in the area. Seeing as we are animals as well we are free to do as we please, just as a woodpecker or beaver happily kill trees for their homes.
How this guy got a permit to fill his 24 acre "hole" with water in a state that is in a "drought crisis".....Is beyond me!!!!! This man-made, for-profit lake has to CONTINUOUSLY BE RE-CHARGED WITH MORE WATER!! The officials who approved this should be fired, and everyone involved should be criminally charged, including this greedy business man. Shameful!!! 🇺🇲
@@tiddybearkush ain't it funny how money has that affect? If you get into trouble, you can just buy your way out! What a jerk this guy is!! "Instant as asshole, just add WATER!!" 🇺🇲
I had an old toilet in the garage no one wanted. I decided to have it covered in gold and diamonds. Suddenly, the value of it increased & everone wanted the toilet. Why can't peasants think like me?
Very well ol chap,,,,and then one warm sunny summer morning as he wiped the sleep from his eyes he realized just how fast water can evaporate in a desert 😅😂😂😂
@Bruce Cole Pardon the need to elaborate for the ignorant: Thru-out human history, the quest for riches far surpasses any environmental protection efforts. Except for select few cultures (eg. Native American Indians & various Tribes in Africa ...list is not all inclusive) who understood how important it is to live WITH nature, the moment capitalism & profit come into play, f*ck nature. Ever heard of deforestation? Clearing land for industrialization? The mighty Mississippi used to flow clear until cities popped up to take advantage of cargo (barge) transport. Same goes with the Thames in UK. What happened to NYC region in the early 1900's ? .......Farmers are tilling the land raw in the central US plains.. ...sure to sustain agriculture.... but the long-term negative effects are now exposing themselves. You need any further explanations & examples, just do some research. Bottom line: Humans are the earth's parasite. I'm human, too....but try to do my part in respecting nature. One little pond, as you suggest, won't make an impact. Agreed. But the summation of many environmental alterations will, and do. Oh, sorry, getting back to the US deep west which is presumably is the focal point of this 24-acre pond, I forgot to mention Las Vegas & surrounding areas are pumping the Colorado dry. Why? Because some early settlers discovered precious metals in the early days, & Vegas just happened to become a Boom-Town. The precious metals are gone, but there's still plenty eager prostitutes eager for your wallet.
He had a choice to either get married or build a waterpark in the desert. He chose the latter because it was the least painful and actually showed a positive result from his decision. A clear no-brainer.
In India a man all by himself created Forest from 1400 acres deserted land his name is Jadhav Molai Payeng known as Forest Man of India ❤ Now there it is Animal's Vacation destination 😊
Where did you find the water? How did you preserve the level of water from evaporation? How did you water the trees and gardens you developed? Nice to construct something like this, but it's nothing unless you maintain it, and maintenance is more difficult and more important than building something.
I've worked on earth moving machines ,on strip mines, 24 of them ! non stop for 3 months ! The fuel bill alone would be more than the property would be worth
This seems like the comment of someone who has no idea what infrastructure is. XD, trees are often grown in nursery and then their root systems and structure are pulled up and transplanted to their delivery location.
Could’ve made a motocross park, a dirt jump park, an off-road race course, an on road race course, an amusement park, a solar farm, a regular farm, a massive shooting range, a paintball/airsoft arena, or a monument/museum. But no, instead you made a really small pond. You can barely use a boat in such a small body of water.
There's absolutely no shortage of water on earth just a lack of development of infrastructure. The earth surface is made of 70% water and its the sake water that's been here forever it can't be destroyed there's no shortage of water we just don't capture and use it right
"So recently I bought the North pole, and I thought, well what would I do with that? Well the northern lights would look kind of pretty above a beach resort, so i just melted all the ice and transported a billion tons of sand there."
If you melt all that ice, there will be no dry sand to bring from no where. You would have to pick it up from the bottom of ocean as all our planet will be nearly fully submerged.
It's right next door to them edit on litrally on the contaminated soil , terrible to imagine its right there I checked it out! Americas national security thats sitting on the Radioactive land they created 1950s seems they happy for a multi millionaire to turn it into an unsuspecting kids water play area ... They are disgusting..😡 #Free Julian Assange
I would have built multiple racetracks, shooting ranges, a fencing/archery court and cool hangout spaces. The rest all around it nothing, especially prevent HOAs and annoying people to build there and then complain about the peaceful hangout spot
@@whatislifebuttheenjoymento3405 I mean water in that general area. Of course it dries up. It'll take days to dry up lmao. They're constantly pumping new water in. That's why surround lakes and things like that dry up. Then people sit and wonder what happened. It's common sense lmao
If it had been filled with salt water from the ocean, it would have been great. Evaporation would condense and precipitate as drinkable water using natural solar energy.
@@Talos827 In a free market, the water would have a price that reflected the scarce nature of the resource, and would allow for the more efficient allocation of the resources based on relative value and need. It's only by central planning via a government run utility which subsidies the water that we get such gross misallocation.
The best part of it is is the land that he dug up and then submerged underwater. He sold that dirt or used it, so one way or another he saved money. So made even more
A lot more of the water goes to california. But this shit does use a TON of water as it evaporates quickly in the desert. California is the main reason its been draining for years.
