@@TimeBombTV it's too late, it is at the point that it requires years of draconian water cuts now and the users can't even stomach small cuts, a crisis will likely occur
another great video! This water issue is like watching a train crash in slow motion… It seems with the upper lakes being depleted, next year should be a very telling year if the water users don’t reduce their demand for water.
My favorite part of these videos is the pan shots of giant cities in the middle of the desert. To find a solution, you have to ask yourself: 'What did people do who lived in those areas BEFORE the dams were built?'.
CA got 85,9 million acre-feet, The Colorado river discharge is 16.3 m acre-feet a year. The South West US, need much more water! The easy and cheap 500 year solution below! The Great Solution: The Columbia river dumps 191,3 m to The Pasific every year, or 11 Colorado rivers. Make a 365 mile long tunnel from Red Bluff to The Columbia river (+ 1 dam at Wishram, WA whit a MSL av 335 feet). And move about 15 - 25 acree-feet a year! NO PUMPS NEEDED! Then NV, AZ, Mexico can then keep Colorado water (not give 58% to CA). And CA should pay a high price for this water! Delaware Aqueduct is 86 miles and the worlds longest tunnel, made during the WW2.
@@larsfridtjofnrheim1638 Elevation of Red Bluff is 305feet above sea level, elevation of Lake Powell is 3700 feet above sea level. To move the water from Red Bluff to Lake Powell, you will need to pump it up hill a lot.. over 3300 feet. Water is pretty heavy. So amount power needed to move that water is at least the power generation of 5 glen canyon dams (710 feet head) or about 5200 Megawatts of power.
This summer has been kind to the Colorado river basin. A much more generous monsoon season has actually reversed things slightly for lake Mead. Since the end of June, the lake is up almost 4.5 feet. It never goes up in the summer. Lake Powell hasn't fared as well but has slowed down for about 3 weeks. Granted, it's just temporary but all the doom and gloom that has been going around had some predictions of both those lakes dried up and not producing any power by January. Maybe we get an early snow fall again this year but snowfall keeps up for the whole winter this time and the lakes can start increasing storage again. Fingers crossed!
@@CobraChamp Lake Powell hasn't been steadily increasing it release of water. If you look at the inflows into Lake Mead recently, you'll see it far surpasses what Powell has been releasing. It coincides with their heavier storms. I see your point but from what I've seen, I give Mother Nature the credit on the past couple of months. It's too bad that the monsoonal moisture hasn't been as heavy in the upper Colorado basin to give Powell more water. Pray for snow!!
CA got 85,9 million acre-feet, The Colorado river discharge is 16.3 m acre-feet a year. The South West US, need much more water! The easy and cheap 500 year solution below! The Great Solution: The Columbia river dumps 191,3 m to The Pasific every year, or 11 Colorado rivers. Make a 365 mile long tunnel from Red Bluff to The Columbia river (+ 1 dam at Wishram, WA whit a MSL av 335 feet). And move about 15 - 25 acree-feet a year! NO PUMPS NEEDED! Then NV, AZ, Mexico can then keep Colorado water (not give 58% to CA). And CA should pay a high price for this water! Delaware Aqueduct is 86 miles and the worlds longest tunnel, made during the WW2.
The problem is Colorado as a whole is getting hotter and becoming drier. We’re getting less and less snowfall and rainfall and what is coming is getting soaked into the ground. This was doomed from the start but at the time they didn’t know of course. We’ll see what the winter has in store for us but at these current trends the winter isn’t going to create the impact you would like. The reality of it is, there’s no reversing this and these reservoirs will never fill up again or at least in any meaningful way. The canal idea from Washington is pretty smart even tho id be curious what the cost difference would be between that and a giant desalination plant. But time will tell.
For the first time I’ve ever seen it’s October and there’s not a spec of snow on the mountains and it’s been like this for a while. All that snow that’s usually there isn’t and it’s not in the river isn’t gone out of the system completely. It’s gonna be an interesting couple of years especially because big water solution projects take years to complete usually.
Lake Powell is yup seven feet from it's low point despite large increased releases to Lake Mead. Maybe the fact that many areas along the Colorado River swa 5 times the rain over an average monsson season has something to do with it. There is rain predicted for the Colorado basin for the next two weeks. The Four Corners area has seen heavy rain for days on end - something not seen, now that the monsoon season has ended.
My wife and I were just at flaming gorge resivor almost 2 weeks ago. We took pictures and measurements of the water level from the canyon walls and the water level was 15 to 16 feet below the normal water line on the canyon walls.
This sounds like a quieter & calmer version of the Chad you had in the last video. I like the original voice better still, BUT this is a better tone than the last one by leaps and bounds
And desal plants are also very expensive and at best provide only a supplemental water supply. People often say that the Saudi's and Israel desalinate water on a large scale. But in the case of Israel they get 3 billion in aid from the US and they are right next to the Mediterranean sea. Saudi Arabia has huge wealth from oil and also are surrounded by water on 3 sides. Desalinated water would have to be pumped hundreds of miles from Sea of Cortez for ex to the dams. Plus there is the problem of brine waste from desal process.
I apologize for this criticism; but I feel it might help you: I know I'm smart enough to understand this but the graphs and illustrations do not convey an optical imagery of the volume of water being consumed and transferred. The statistics are perfect but the ability to get a feel for the urgency isn't conveyed. Maybe if you used glasses of water, or different sized beakers or clear measuring cups to schematically represent a scaled illustration would help?
Thanks for the input, I appreciate it. I used a glass of water graphic in a recent video on Lake Powell to illustrate the water levels. Maybe I will try to expand on that to make the situation easier to understand. I will see what I can do. Thanks again for the advice!
@@TimeBombTV Thank you [!] for all the work to get this important idea across. I can tell you have put much work into it already. Imagine that you have one shot at convincing a jury of the understanding. The jurors are all middle school students. Wish I could be there to help you. One way might be to start with a half sheet of plywood and map out the several lakes then build them up with modeling clay Use 1 or 2 liter soda bottles cut open on long axis for the lakes; Maybe not. Maybe use the bottles standing up.
It seems funny to me that we can pump oil across Alaska, Canada and the US but we can’t build a pipeline for water from Minnesota to the northern part of Colorado river
Sorry, but you greedy people are not getting our water. It would be an environmental disaster to try and pipe water from Lake Superior to the Southwest. This is the price you pay for living in the Southwest.
@@shimshonbendan8730 you can’t be serious just because you live in a place that has an over abundance of water doesn’t mean that you have the right to not share with the part of our nation that produces a major amount of the food we eat More water more food Choose
CA got 85,9 million acre-feet, The Colorado river discharge is 16.3 m acre-feet a year. The South West US, need much more water! The easy and cheap 500 year solution below! The Great Solution: The Columbia river dumps 191,3 m to The Pasific every year, or 11 Colorado rivers. Make a 365 mile long tunnel from Red Bluff to The Columbia river (+ 1 dam at Wishram, WA whit a MSL av 335 feet). And move about 15 - 25 acree-feet a year! NO PUMPS NEEDED! Then NV, AZ, Mexico can then keep Colorado water (not give 58% to CA). And CA should pay a high price for this water! Delaware Aqueduct is 86 miles and the worlds longest tunnel, made during the WW2.
@@TimeBombTV I know little of dam design but I wounder if they built it now if they would have designed it to allow water flow below the dead pool level bypassing power production.
@@RobertSeattle The term dead pool is when water cannot pass out of the dam at all. Power pool is when water level cannot turn the turbines but water can still be released to keep the river alive, by passing power production. Power generation will stop first before dead pool is reached. People are talking about total collapse of the dam and river system, rather than simply lost of power generation capability.
At one time there were talks about running a pipe from the Missouri River to the Colorado river to help with this problem. Wonder if anything came of it or if it would even help..
Not doom and gloom, Fact. We live in a desert! Here in Aridzona more than twenty five years ago a study was commissioned then buried that clearly said, swimming pools and golf courses and green grass lawns were our biggest water wasters. While all other surrounding states have taken action, Aridzona rEpuBlicans have not!
Dont believe this video.. I was just there for 20 days on the lake.. its so full, also talked to the local reps they arent as worried as all these videos say!! CLICK BAIT!
The statistics I report are accurate and verifiable. You can check for yourself here: www.usbr.gov/lc/riverops.html The reservoirs are in fact running dangerously low and the impact to our nations food supply, economy and health is at risk. You can choose to continue to ignore the issue but do so at your own peril.
Excellent reporting. All facts, no filler. Keep em coming.
Thank you so much, I appreciate the compliment!
@@TimeBombTV it's too late, it is at the point that it requires years of draconian water cuts now and the users can't even stomach small cuts, a crisis will likely occur
Maybe we should stop growing ag crops (like alfalfa & palm) in the middle of the desert? This is in California, mostly.
You would think doing as you say would be common sense. But yet here we are….🤷🏻♂️
These people are idiots... they've known for years.. overusage and miscalculated watershed.. no one did anything
Starvation is a great option. Might as well starve!
Quit growing almonds!!! 1 million gallons a year for each tree?????
@@rickmaynhart6812 that will happen but it won't save civilization in the West. When agriculture collapses everything else goes with it.
another great video! This water issue is like watching a train crash in slow motion… It seems with the upper lakes being depleted, next year should be a very telling year if the water users don’t reduce their demand for water.
Thanks for the comment, I appreciate it.
The main water users are farms. We need food. Only necessary crops should be grown. No snacks.
I miss the robot🤖
AGREE!
My favorite part of these videos is the pan shots of giant cities in the middle of the desert. To find a solution, you have to ask yourself: 'What did people do who lived in those areas BEFORE the dams were built?'.
Digging wells and collect rain water. The difference is, now millions live there, not just a few thousand
Well, in numbers terms... They didn't... Preindustrial desert populations ate pretty tiny.
But getting rid of green lawns would help.
CA got 85,9 million acre-feet, The Colorado river discharge is 16.3 m acre-feet a year. The South West US, need much more water! The easy and cheap 500 year solution below!
The Great Solution: The Columbia river dumps 191,3 m to The Pasific every year, or 11 Colorado rivers. Make a 365 mile long tunnel from Red Bluff to The Columbia river (+ 1 dam at Wishram, WA whit a MSL av 335 feet). And move about 15 - 25 acree-feet a year! NO PUMPS NEEDED! Then NV, AZ, Mexico can then keep Colorado water (not give 58% to CA). And CA should pay a high price for this water! Delaware Aqueduct is 86 miles and the worlds longest tunnel, made during the WW2.
@@larsfridtjofnrheim1638 I want this person arrested for making perfect sense! How dare you!
@@larsfridtjofnrheim1638 Elevation of Red Bluff is 305feet above sea level, elevation of Lake Powell is 3700 feet above sea level. To move the water from Red Bluff to Lake Powell, you will need to pump it up hill a lot.. over 3300 feet. Water is pretty heavy. So amount power needed to move that water is at least the power generation of 5 glen canyon dams (710 feet head) or about 5200 Megawatts of power.
Key words .It’s just a matter of time
Nuclear reactors seem perfect for the middle of the desert...
Nuclear reactors need huge quantities of... water. Perfect.
Its also a great place for a nuclear waste dump but some idiot killed that after spending billions of dollars developing Yuca mountain.
A few months later it shows how quickly things change.
This summer has been kind to the Colorado river basin. A much more generous monsoon season has actually reversed things slightly for lake Mead. Since the end of June, the lake is up almost 4.5 feet. It never goes up in the summer. Lake Powell hasn't fared as well but has slowed down for about 3 weeks. Granted, it's just temporary but all the doom and gloom that has been going around had some predictions of both those lakes dried up and not producing any power by January. Maybe we get an early snow fall again this year but snowfall keeps up for the whole winter this time and the lakes can start increasing storage again. Fingers crossed!
It is really hard to draw these conclusions with the upper lakes releasing additional water.
@@CobraChamp Lake Powell hasn't been steadily increasing it release of water. If you look at the inflows into Lake Mead recently, you'll see it far surpasses what Powell has been releasing. It coincides with their heavier storms. I see your point but from what I've seen, I give Mother Nature the credit on the past couple of months. It's too bad that the monsoonal moisture hasn't been as heavy in the upper Colorado basin to give Powell more water. Pray for snow!!
CA got 85,9 million acre-feet, The Colorado river discharge is 16.3 m acre-feet a year. The South West US, need much more water! The easy and cheap 500 year solution below!
The Great Solution: The Columbia river dumps 191,3 m to The Pasific every year, or 11 Colorado rivers. Make a 365 mile long tunnel from Red Bluff to The Columbia river (+ 1 dam at Wishram, WA whit a MSL av 335 feet). And move about 15 - 25 acree-feet a year! NO PUMPS NEEDED! Then NV, AZ, Mexico can then keep Colorado water (not give 58% to CA). And CA should pay a high price for this water! Delaware Aqueduct is 86 miles and the worlds longest tunnel, made during the WW2.
The problem is Colorado as a whole is getting hotter and becoming drier. We’re getting less and less snowfall and rainfall and what is coming is getting soaked into the ground. This was doomed from the start but at the time they didn’t know of course. We’ll see what the winter has in store for us but at these current trends the winter isn’t going to create the impact you would like. The reality of it is, there’s no reversing this and these reservoirs will never fill up again or at least in any meaningful way. The canal idea from Washington is pretty smart even tho id be curious what the cost difference would be between that and a giant desalination plant. But time will tell.
For the first time I’ve ever seen it’s October and there’s not a spec of snow on the mountains and it’s been like this for a while. All that snow that’s usually there isn’t and it’s not in the river isn’t gone out of the system completely. It’s gonna be an interesting couple of years especially because big water solution projects take years to complete usually.
Lake Powell is yup seven feet from it's low point despite large increased releases to Lake Mead. Maybe the fact that many areas along the Colorado River swa 5 times the rain over an average monsson season has something to do with it. There is rain predicted for the Colorado basin for the next two weeks. The Four Corners area has seen heavy rain for days on end - something not seen, now that the monsoon season has ended.
I really hope these rains help to increase the water levels.
I like the robot voice way better than "Brad"
AGREE!
Thanks for the comment, I'm still trying to decide what to do so these comments are very helpful.
My wife and I were just at flaming gorge resivor almost 2 weeks ago. We took pictures and measurements of the water level from the canyon walls and the water level was 15 to 16 feet below the normal water line on the canyon walls.
This sounds like a quieter & calmer version of the Chad you had in the last video. I like the original voice better still, BUT this is a better tone than the last one by leaps and bounds
Thanks for the input, your opinion really matter to me. I think Chad will get better with time.
The Feds better start a water importation project. And States begin desalination.
It will take years to build a desal plant and associated power stations to power it.
And desal plants are also very expensive and at best provide only a supplemental water supply.
People often say that the Saudi's and Israel desalinate water on a large scale. But in the case of Israel they get 3 billion in aid from the US and they are right next to the Mediterranean sea.
Saudi Arabia has huge wealth from oil and also are surrounded by water on 3 sides.
Desalinated water would have to be pumped hundreds of miles from Sea of Cortez for ex to the dams. Plus there is the problem of brine waste from desal process.
I apologize for this criticism; but I feel it might help you: I know I'm smart enough to understand this but the graphs and illustrations do not convey an optical imagery of the volume of water being consumed and transferred. The statistics are perfect but the ability to get a feel for the urgency isn't conveyed. Maybe if you used glasses of water, or different sized beakers or clear measuring cups to schematically represent a scaled illustration would help?
Thanks for the input, I appreciate it. I used a glass of water graphic in a recent video on Lake Powell to illustrate the water levels. Maybe I will try to expand on that to make the situation easier to understand. I will see what I can do. Thanks again for the advice!
@@TimeBombTV Thank you [!] for all the work to get this important idea across. I can tell you have put much work into it already. Imagine that you have one shot at convincing a jury of the understanding. The jurors are all middle school students. Wish I could be there to help you. One way might be to start with a half sheet of plywood and map out the several lakes then build them up with modeling clay Use 1 or 2 liter soda bottles cut open on long axis for the lakes; Maybe not. Maybe use the bottles standing up.
No need to keep Lake Powell. The porous sand stone won’t hold water.
@@erdelegy That is why we should fill lake Mead first. It leaks much less water than Lake Powell.
Thank you
You're welcome
If they don't implement plans to reduce water usage soon? What the hell they should have already been implemented months ago!
years
farmers like their free water
It seems funny to me that we can pump oil across Alaska, Canada and the US but we can’t build a pipeline for water from Minnesota to the northern part of Colorado river
Sorry, but you greedy people are not getting our water. It would be an environmental disaster to try and pipe water from Lake Superior to the Southwest. This is the price you pay for living in the Southwest.
@@shimshonbendan8730 you can’t be serious just because you live in a place that has an over abundance of water doesn’t mean that you have the right to not share with the part of our nation that produces a major amount of the food we eat
More water more food
Choose
@@sharp-1000 Why don't you simply move to where the water is?
There may not be many tricks left in the bag to save Lake Powell at this stage of the game.
That is correct, we just don't have that many cards left to play.
CA got 85,9 million acre-feet, The Colorado river discharge is 16.3 m acre-feet a year. The South West US, need much more water! The easy and cheap 500 year solution below!
The Great Solution: The Columbia river dumps 191,3 m to The Pasific every year, or 11 Colorado rivers. Make a 365 mile long tunnel from Red Bluff to The Columbia river (+ 1 dam at Wishram, WA whit a MSL av 335 feet). And move about 15 - 25 acree-feet a year! NO PUMPS NEEDED! Then NV, AZ, Mexico can then keep Colorado water (not give 58% to CA). And CA should pay a high price for this water! Delaware Aqueduct is 86 miles and the worlds longest tunnel, made during the WW2.
Piping water to solve Colorado River shortages is becoming increasingly popular with water managers. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
@@TimeBombTV I am not a Water Manager, I am a user that pays the bill. It is popular, beacause it is easy, cheap and the best solution.
I have a thirst for these videos
No. With the rains and snow pack this winter, it at least will look better next year!!
Where is the other guy?
He has been abducted by the aliens 👽
Low rainfall in a desert? shocking!! It must be the mythical "climate change..."
Where did all your videos go? Only 9 are showing up!
And where are you? I want to reach out to you.
Save the desert! REMOVE the dam!!!
Do your swimming pools still have water!!
Colorado needs to quit draining it's revivors to fill up revivors downstream. Keep the water where there is fertile land and less evaporation.
Colorado doesn't own the reservoirs or the river.
Please, pretty please go back to the old voice.
AGREE!
If Powell gets to dead pool, will sufficient water still be released for recreational purposes through the Grand Canyon?
When Lake Powell declines below the dead pool level of 3,370 ft. no more water will from downstream from Glen Canyon Dam.
@@TimeBombTV I know little of dam design but I wounder if they built it now if they would have designed it to allow water flow below the dead pool level bypassing power production.
@@RobertSeattle The term dead pool is when water cannot pass out of the dam at all. Power pool is when water level cannot turn the turbines but water can still be released to keep the river alive, by passing power production. Power generation will stop first before dead pool is reached.
People are talking about total collapse of the dam and river system, rather than simply lost of power generation capability.
I can not believe the garbage they are finding as this lake dries up - people deserve to have it dry up they maybe they would have some respect
Southwest population ... so screwed !
Answer to this video_. PROBABLY. but come on back in 20 or so years,,, things might have turned around.
Just fill it with tap water
At one time there were talks about running a pipe from the Missouri River to the Colorado river to help with this problem.
Wonder if anything came of it or if it would even help..
no
EPA approval process would stop any sort of action like that
Let's suck all of the water out of another area of the country so we can keep living in the desert! 🙂
Koch crime family any collaborators would be glad.
The southwestern part of America is about to turn into a war zone
First - stop supply to imperial irrigation district (?? District??)
Stop watering the desert
Time to breach the dams
Get ready for empty....
lol! "Acre feet"?? when did this become a unit of measurement? FFS America - just go to metric and make your life a whole lot easier.
Talk about robbing perter to pay Paul hahahaha. water is gone everywhere - stealing from other sources is not going to do a thing
Build nuclear plants now.
60 million views for the new cardi b. Water though, nobody cares. Shameful.
The dams in the river systems should have never been created.
Zero new info in this vid.
Not doom and gloom, Fact. We live in a desert! Here in Aridzona more than twenty five years ago a study was commissioned then buried that clearly said, swimming pools and golf courses and green grass lawns were our biggest water wasters. While all other surrounding states have taken action, Aridzona rEpuBlicans have not!
Dont believe this video.. I was just there for 20 days on the lake.. its so full, also talked to the local reps they arent as worried as all these videos say!! CLICK BAIT!
The statistics I report are accurate and verifiable. You can check for yourself here: www.usbr.gov/lc/riverops.html
The reservoirs are in fact running dangerously low and the impact to our nations food supply, economy and health is at risk. You can choose to continue to ignore the issue but do so at your own peril.