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- Lake Mead is one of the largest reservoirs in the United States. In 2022, it dropped to record low levels, and nearly reached dead-pool status. But today, the reservoir's condition is very different. Water Levels are rising, and snowpack on the Colorado River is reaching record high levels. Therefore, what does the future hold for Lake Mead, and how will rising water levels affect the future of this reservoir?
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Let's see...more rain and increasing snowpack can result in the water level rising. Brilliant!
you saved me 8 minutes even though I kinda figured :D
And CA was going to have a dry winter, Brilliant. Like we can trust any of the predictions coming out of the government agencies?
Nope, all the lakes need to make a bottom, and that will use around half of the surplus water coming down.
that took 8 painful minutes. LOL
Facts!!
This video HAS reached Deadpool status.
Welp, I wonder if Lake Mead has been close to Deadpool status in the recent years? You’d think they would address the Deadpool question in this video…. I just had to say something to recognize you comment. I just about sent a mouthful of soda headed straight towards my wife when I read that comment! Hilarious. 😂
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Drinking game right there... xD
He’s awesome
Right?
The state of Nevada only uses 1% of its allocated share of water from lake mead. The southern Nevada water authority has been able to recapture, recycle and reuse 98% of the water we pull out of Lake mead. We are definitely not the problem. We are currently the only state that has been able to conserve such a high amount of water.
@Maria CANCER , why are you posted this as a reply. The OP didn’t make this video. This smells like a scam a mile away.
W.
Yeah,,, tell that to alll the people in Las Vegas who have grass lawns...
Ask the northern Nevadans about that.
@@shelbyfredrickson1384 there aren’t very many homes with those anymore. Been here 32 years and it’s way different now.
Take a drink whenever he says deadpool status
Hi Bob
this Bob did, drunk now
Especially when he NEVER defines it. SMDH
No, I don’t want alcohol poisoning
I'm wade wilson, and I approve this message.
I have a question. Has Lake Mead almost reached dead pool status?
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lake mead will never reach dead pool--only if the colorado river went dry--this dead pool is 100 percent nonsense,media drama
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it will when ryan reynolds takes a swim.
find a private spot on the lake and start peeing to do your share....
I have watched your TH-cam every day since the fire in Lahaina. In my opinion, you are an angel here on earth. I'm not kidding. I'm 69, and going to Hawaii is on my bucket list. My grandmother told me that of all her travels, Maui was the most beautiful island of all. I am devastated about this tragedy and want to say God Bless You, your sons, and wife for what you are graciously doing for your neighbors. I know people may say rude things, but your honor shines shrough.
When a video with the pretentious phrase of "The Real Reason" in the title claims to explain something it is almost a given the video will come up short. The video does use good graphics to explain the circumstances of Lake Mead, but ends coming short on a lot of details.
At the beginning of the video the narrator stated that Lake Mead had fallen so much in 2022 that was at almost at Dead Pool status. Lake Mead dropped to 1040' as stated at another point, but that is still 145' above dead pool (which is 895') and 90' above Minimum Power Pool. So how is 145' from Dead Pool ""almost dead pool? That is a vague statement totally lacking any attribution in this video. And that latter term, Minimum Power Pool, was not even mentioned in this video.
In addition later in the video the narrator said that Lake Mead dropped to a record low because of high water use, but the video says nothing about the extreme drought affecting the region which was a second big reason for the record low level Lake Mead reached in 2022.
And there is still another reason why Lake Mead dropped as low as it did and that had to do with Colorado snow pack. Colorado actually had a normal snow pack in 2022, but because of a warmer than normal temperature in late winter much of the snow sublimated!! In other words much of the snow evaporated away because of warm dry weather and never reached the river channel. What water run off from the snow pack that did make into the river channel was absorbed by the dry river bed. Consequently, a much smaller percentage of snow melt reached either of the two main reservoirs downstream.
This video was also repetative in repeating the same facts several times which indicates that narrative was poorly written as well as lacking explanation for statements made.
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@@Christopher-qq4dl SHALLOW AND PEDANTIC!
Remind me to never read your comments while high. 😵💫🤣
Great summary! The graphics were good, but the facts were lacking. And as you point out, while Lake Mead was dropping drastically, it wasn't near dead pool as was mentioned several times.
@@Eluiciq Thanks for responding. The southwest was fortunate to catch a break with the heavy precipitation over the winter. But it is likely only a temporary reprieve. Stay well!
If you took a drink every time they say "dead pool status" you would be hammered.
California, the state that lectures the other 49, but makes the worst decisions.
We don’t lecture anyone…is that what Fox News tells you? California is banning lawns…Arizona is building millions of with huge homes with lawns in he desert. Now hush up or we’ll cut off your subsidies. We’ll also cut off your fruits and vegetables…Enough with your jealousies
I agree 💯
Here is the thing California more than likely pays your states bills, with the exception of Texas the rest of the red states are welfare states…more than likely your state 😂
Remember, every city on every river treats river water, uses it, treats it again before releasing it downstream to the next city… except coastal cities. I. E. LA, California.
@@brucearterbury1856 The point is 5 states share the reservoir…but only California refuses to reduce the amount of water it takes.
Let's try to depress people further than they are already by minimizing the effect of the largest, best snow pack in recent history.
How much of that will California waste while telling other states it won’t cooperate? Will it flush millions of gallons into the ocean to preserve a fish or some other nonsense?
CA democrats pray for drought and big fires
After 20 years of drought one good snow pack isn’t going to help. Every square mile between lake mead and the hugest mountain it comes from is dry. That soil will soak up a huge amount of the snow just to try and fill up the soil profile. It will take years and years of it to improve. That’s the truth of the matter.
@@peteparker7396 Very true Pete,
@@peteparker7396 How much water has CA released out of the dams this winter
CA is supposed to be the most environmentally friendly state out of all the states in the south west yet it's the only one not will to reduce water usage.
Wow !... who would have thunk that rain and snow could make a lake rise.......
It’s always been a water usage problem not a supply problem.
It is the American desert though. Low water supply is it's defining characteristic.
Same old story, conservation is for “Thee not for Me”.How many of us moved here and expected to have the same broad leaf forests that we had in the Midwest? The nurseries were happy to accommodate us.
@@grantmccoy6739 Your use of the word "though" suggests you have an argument that disagrees with the OP...and you don't have that.
Most of the water is used for irrigation, not watering lawns. So if you want your vegetable prices even higher, just cut off the water to California.
@@badawesome Watering lawns _is a form_ of irrigation. People don't rely on CA to feed them to the extent you think they do, and we'd all do just fine without desert-grown almonds.
you keep repeating the same info, just give us what it was last year or past and give us data today, Stop trying to make it difficult
All data
Deadpool status.
I live in the Utah mountains. We have 4 times the snow we had last year. Flaming Gorge will fill this summer then they will need to spill down into Powell. Lake Powell will go up 45 - 50 feet by this summer. They have bought themselves at least 3 more years to build golf coerces. Long term the problem is still here but for then next 3 years the emergency is over and it's back to wasting water like in the past.
golf courses?
gotta go and wash my car and water my tangerines and cannabis
I predict serious flooding this summer. The Rockies here in Colorado are still getting snow.
Good time to sell property there, don't wait until the next drought. A lot of property will lose a lot of value when they hit dead pool.
I'm guessing the reason the lake is rising is because more water is coming in than is going out. Wow, I must be a hydrologic engineer.
This is a wonderful reprieve! The only downside is the encouragement it gives climate change deniers who base their opinions on a narrow focus on what the weather is doing this year, or this season, or even just today.
California needs to get it's house in order.
The real reason is the climate isn’t static and the earths climate isn’t controlled by the car you drive.
Answer me this. What is the one thing no climate denier ever takes into consideration on conditions 10k, 100k, 500K years ago? You happily think that ever increasing populations, burgeoning industry, all burning anything and everything has ZERO effect. Keep thinking them happy thoughts. I'll be dead soon enough. You, on the other hand, will be FUBAR.
Uh oh, now you have done it!
@@rainmaker3700 If you are commenting to me, I gave up long ago trying to educate them. Like I said, I'll be dead soon enough. Trying to change their minds is like trying to teach a pig to dance. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
#Milankovitch_Cycles the real climate change , not the Eco-Grifter agendas to steal wealth and power 🎉🎉
The real reason is the Casinos hogging up all the water.
This narrator used the term “ Dead pool status “ multiple times but never once told the viewers what in the hell Dead pool status is. Some one needs to explain to this genius to tell the viewers at least once whatDead pool status is.
Dead pool is the point where the water level will be too low to enter the intake towers to pass through the dam. So at dead pool there is no movement of water, the reservoir would become effectively stagnant. There will be water still entering the reservoir (hopefully), but none passing the dam to continue down stream. Effectively the river stops flowing. There are pipes in the reservoir that can draw water out to continue to supply a few communities but I am not sure how many or which ones. With water still flowing in to the reservoir and these pipes drawing water out hopefully the water quality would not become completely stagnant,but the quality would suffer. I am not an authority on this, but it is what I understand from what I have read.
Did you say - dead pool status?
maybe I didn't listen hard enough, I didn't hear dead pool mentioned at all... then again, I have a.d.d.
california refused to cut back, now they are getting flooded and buried in snow. kharma ?
😂😂😂😂great for the Lake . We dont need any water this year.
How many times in 8 minutes can someone say "Deadpool status"? This guy was seeking the Guinness Book of World Record status on this one....
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Congress should tell California, TOUGH LUCK.' All States receiving water from Lake Mead will receive an equal share of water. If the farmers complain, let them find another occupation or move to Nevada or Arizona and start a farm there...
when you guys in other states start conserving and banking water like the people of california have, then it just might happen....and grow something to EAT or SMOKE while youre at it....
California needs to look north if it wants more water. All that rain waters just going into the ocean!
I've wondered for years why California doesn't run a pipeline or two from The Columbia river in Oregon. It's huge and always full. Most of it's water dumps into The Pacific.
Because the govt is draining it. That water doesn’t just release itself. Do some basic research, because these kinds of posts make some of you seem dumb.
@@theshyguitarist Do you remember when then Gov. Of Alaska wanted to build a pipe line on the ocean floor to bring fresh water to Cali?
"Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."
@@allenatkins2263 good one!
this guy really likes saying "Deadpool Status"
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I live at lake mead it ain't rising trust me.
I was hoping for a success story like the ones in California I keep hearing about. Those reservoirs filled up already, but I think they were quite small comparatively. To be fair, even 6 feet of water at Lake mead is an absolutely incredible amount of water, but so is the amount they lost.
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Build Sites, but it is not enough! Do this also: There is 11 times more water in The Columbia River. IT is easy to move 1 or 2 "Colorado Rivers", down to Red Bluff. No pumps are needed! CA`s water problem are fixed forever!!!
I was thinking the same thing. All of the rain in Ca was filling there reservoirs. But Mead is the largest
in the US. We have to conserve water…
Lake Tahoe ain’t small
@@SunriseLAW I belive if we check, your income is maybe 1/4 off my income.
I assure you nobody here in Las Vegas thought their life was in danger.
because everyone can go to Lake Bellagio for water?
@@id10t98 Lake Mirage?
And they died unaware of the situation that killed them.
I've been in Vegas for 24 years and it was definitely a major factor in deciding whether or not to sell and move back to Ohio.
ignorance is bliss...happy guy
Wow,,nice lake..beautiful nature
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If Lake Mead gets so low it can no longer flow as far as California, I see that as a problem solved. The other six states can get their water and California can figure their own shit out.
Your grocery bill would triple in cost.
Wow!! Dumbest comment yet! Clemdane obviously has no idea how reliant the six states not named California are on the Colorado River. You would be talking a mass migration of people out of the southwest if the Colorado River stops flowing!!
@Kristin Parks lol it already is, and your taking all my water.
Does anybody know if Lake Mead has almost hit Deadpool status? I don't think he made it clear enough
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Some TH-camr learned a new catchword and is trying it out Deadpool Deadpool Deadpool sadly we had to listen to it X100
its all a big set of lies designed to work together
@@tommurphy4307 Ooooh this will be fun - hang on let's all putting on my tinfoil hat ⛑🎩👒 OK OK enlighten us with your mighty wisdom that you only know and the rest of us are just sheeppeople and go through life blind - pleasssssse.
I'm sorry it will take years to get back. Years of snowpack.
It's my understanding that California has removed 80-90 river dams in the past 30 years while insisting on its right to suck water off the Colorado River. Much of the Southwest is subject to drought/flood cycles historically. Now we're in a flood cycle and I'm wondering if missing dams are part of the reason California has so much property damage.
No it’s because developers build on river path ways. If you don’t know the reason behind it stop misleading. The greed of selling land, same in Arizona and Nevada they get rain and many parts flood. Do your research before just talking. Now, Nevada wasted water for decades ( golfers and casinos) they continue wasting water they regulate small home owners but ignore the heavy Casino waste. The casinos like you mislead people saying it’s recycled water lol maybe the water fountains but all the visitors ( 50, million plus) that’s where your water is going. End of story. the percentage of your water has outgrown it’s self and by the looks of it you keep building big places casinos and new companies and homes you continue to outgrow your percentage of water use stop building and close half of your casinos.
They dump most of their fresh water back into ocean from what I understand. They would have plenty of water. But you know its California where they love creating problems instead of fixing them
It’s part of their plan, apparently
80-90 river dams have been removed nation wide, not just in California. California is only removing the 3 in the Klamath River. California is building the Sites Reservoir at a cost of 260 million and is also making improvements in the millions to Lake Isabella Dam.
you said it well and you said it best maybe we should make you governor of California you definitely seem like you have your head on right
CA should have started building local-dometic water reservoir for both rain & river water. CA population doubled since 1970 but there has been NO water project to increase water supply. It is insane how in ineffective the CA state bureaucrats are and the insane amount of money they wasted every year.
For example, CA state gov wasted more than 8 Billions dollar for the homeless, not counting the local county-city homeless spending, all these money were wasted.
Maybe it would help if people quit trying to grow lawns in a desert.
or avocados got to hand it to the cartels feeding off the weak!
The lawns stated to go back in the 90s. Less than 10% has lawns, except the rich asses who uses more water than the other 90% of us.
Talk to Arizona who grows water-intensive crops like cotton and cashews in the middle of the freaking desert
@BlackCell22 same with Utah, but I don't think it draws from the Colorado more from the Bear, which feeds into the Great Salt Lake.
@@grasm03 not anymore it doesn't. That's why the Great Salt Lake is disappearing. And that's going to be an environmental catastrophe for Salt Lake City because of all of the heavy metals trapped in the sediment that's already moving around and causing health problems
Be happy that you’re being blessed with water.
Too repetitive. This video could have been made in 3 min!
The best way to conserve water/use less is to CLOSE THE BORDER. The problem is not lack of rain/snow BUT OVERUSE on the river. It was never designed to support the numbers of people in the southwest along with agriculture use.
It’s crazy how much water is used in az, Vegas and so cal to water grass. Get rid of lawns and there’s no longer a water shortage.
And St George, Utah. It's ridiculous.
Golf courses. Research Golf courses. The amount of water needed for golf courses is insane.
Deadpool status - I wanted to say it too. Deadpool status, ok that’s my last time. Deadpool … status
How many times did he say “dead pool status” ?
About as many times he repeated HIMSELF. A Higher educational performance obliviously meant for folks like me who couldn't get the sum of his 8 minute narration in the first 2 minutes. I hope he's making student loan payments.
How does rain in California help lake mead?
Colorado river rights support Colorado and Utah--not Mead. I believe Utah gets the majority of their Colorado river rights by by using the Strawberry reservoir to divert some of the water that would normally flow into the Green. Eastern Utah does not have a lot of agriculture. There is not aqueduct or pipe from Powell or Mead to populated areas in Utah. Of the upper basin water Utah is entitled to 7.5% which they use around 60% a year. The vast majority of Colorado river is used by California and Arizona. This also makes sense due to geography. Just want to make sure it is clear what Lake Mead supports. Utah and Colorado is supported by all the great vegetables they get from California. I don't think Almond milk is all that important IMO.
I missed something. The Virgin River feeds into Mead and Utah gets a lot their water from the virgin (Probably the majority). Again geography would make it very hard for water to run in but one direction. Bottom line I am for Utah also cutting for many other reasons (Great Salt Lake), however, our impact on Mead is not going to be that significant. Only California and Arizona will be able to make meaningful differences in their cuts. BTW populated centers in Colorado and agriculture all feed to the Gulf.
An acre of almond trees require 5 times the water that an acre of vegetables does. There are almond tree farms in the Imperial Valley that are 5 MILES square. Do the math: the rest of us could use the water.
@@crankyoldguy2 Almond trees are fed by natural aquifers and water supplies in Northern California. Southern California (which is supplied by Colorado River sources) is not a substantial producer of almonds. I have an almond tree at my So. Cal. home, and it produces quite prolifically without me supplying so much as one drop of water to it. Last time I checked, Northern California's reservoirs are past capacity and water is being dumped into the ocean. It's the same with the Colorado River right now. They are releasing abnormally high amounts of water into the Gulf of California right now.
@@dondiddly8942 probably shouldn't be releasing a whole lot of Colorado if the reservoirs are that low.
Like the world will end if they stop watering almonds. If all the almond trees die, no one will even notice.
Well,all these golf courses, rather than usen good clean water, use "" reclaimed water"" , if you know what that is. That alone would save a huge amount of water.
I enjoyed a new drinking game. Every time I heard the phrase “dead pool status” I took a shot. I’m about five shots in, and I’ve lost count. Re-watch this video with that in mind and enjoy!
All of the alarmist chatter about dead pool status is always done while never mentioning the numbers.
Dead Pool is a water elevation of roughly 900 feet.
Last July Mead was at 1041 with 89% of average snow pack.
It's now 1046 and rising with a massive snowpack nearing 200% of average. No where near dead pool.
And there is no currently defined scenario for the catastrophic dead pool any time soon or even in a distant future.
So why is it constantly being suggested & implied as a real worry?
It's not.
The real worry is how politicians will address the growing demand and consumption.
Politicians don't have any power to do anything, or don't you think they would have years ago? The water rights are in stone, politicians can only "ask" and try an assist in a reduction of usage.
The rest of your comment was spot on.
@@Bouncer-id1rh Politicians and bureaucrats have much ability to worsen what is not even broken. There are many water mistakes they have made and can make. But I get your point.
@@edwardsullivan5481 Well, I'm just stating the fact that politicians didn't create the issue, and have no power to fix it. The C.R. was over allocated 100 years ago at 16maf, when the 300 year study showed it's actual statistical ave was closer to 14maf. Once that 16maf came to fruition early this century, the system entered into a deficit, which is why NOAA made it's Agricultural & Hydrological drought designations over 20 years ago. Everyone virtually thinks the C.R. has been in meteorological drought all these years which isn't factually accurate. This issue has been brought to the courts, and in every case, judges have ruled that the 1st rights holders have to renegotiate the original compact. The fact is, the states, politicians, even the president don't have any power to change anything. As I stated, if they did, they would have tried.
Anyways, thanx for the convo.
If 3 months of monsoon rains haven’t fully replenished water levels, then Lake Meade is a lost cause.
It didn’t monsoon rain anywhere near Lake Mead and Powell. Can you use a map?
@@stick004 Thanks for the ad hominem attack. News reports in the Midwest are filled with images of streets underwater and rains which are unrelenting. I suppose if you live in CA, the dots are easy to connect.
@@jaco7675 , thanks for proving me correct. You don’t know how maps work. It is flooding in California. Which is the West Coast. It is not currently flooding in the Midwest, which is where I live. Neither of these 2 places are even in the same Time Zone as Lake Powell and Lake Mead!
@@stick004 You’re welcome. You are a very wise and astute man for recognizing my deficiencies.
It would take a decade of rain to fill those lakes back up.
That's very good news about Lake Mead.
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Meed dam is a cool dude. Arch dam.
having visited hoover dam two months ago, its good to see some recharging of the reservoir
we need it full so it can't provide flood control any more- brilliant
California has seen record rainfall & an above average snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Their reservoirs are filling back up. They shouldn't be sivening water from Lake Meade at all. If I were negotiating Lake Meade's & the Colorado River's water useage, I would definitely take those conditions to the table. California should NOT be able to use the water coming from Lake Meade & the Colorado River this year (or, years when they don't need it do to their precipitation & storage levels.) Cut em off!
California is dumping a lot of that water into the ocean because they don't have the capacity to store it all.
Most of California's use goes to farmland irrigation in the Imperial valley which is way closer to the Colorado than the rest of California's water infrastructure. If you like eating, you'll understand the need for irrigation.
Where is the major tributary for Meade in California?
Cali’s farms feed you 🤷
Here in california we are wasting so much water growing almonds. If we get rid of the almonds and gow actual food rather than a luxury we'll be fine
With historic snow packs this year then how can they say it will be lower like last summer? There will be snow in the mountains till July so snow will be melting into the lake all summer
Fear porn sells, that's why.
undoubtedly trumpies telling lies- getting ready for 2024
It's now July, is there still snow in the mountains?
Goal of this stupid video: how many times can we say “Deadpool status” in 8 minutes.
It took some 30 years to fill Lake Mead after Hoover Dam was completed. One winter's rain and snow will not be enough to even make a noticeable difference and water restrictions are only months away again.
nonsense its already made such a difference
It made a difference at lake Powell now the water actually reaches the boat ramp at antelope point.
No one can save California from itself. Just please stop moving out and go down with the ship.
Drinking game: Each time "deadpool status" is mentioned, you have to take a shot.
Hey, I live in Northern California and Im also sick of Southern California taking water from up here.
i need to drive up and fill my rig- can you spare 3700 gallons??
Click bait
Lake mead and powell continue to fall, Arizona, Nevada, and California contribute no water to the Colorado River, last River that flows year round into the Colorado is the San Juan. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and Heyduke lives!
Arizonas Little Colorado River flows year round. And when grand falls are pouring that little 400cfs "year round" bright blue water can turn into 100,000cfs. Grand falls are very common during Monsoon.
@Sins Grand falls access is currently closed to outsiders, I myself live on the Navajo res near Gallup and the little Colorado doesn't flow year round and is the home of the Sipapu,the navel of the earth in Hopi folklore.
@Robert Reynolds I can't say much about it upstream and only seen it from a grand canyon tour where I'm 100% sure the guide said it was spring fed flowing into the Colorado. Also went to Havasupai falls about 6yrs ago in the dead of summer where we were told its also spring fed. There's many areas along the canyon with natural spring sources even below the Hoover Dam. They all seemed to be on the AZ side of the canyon. One thing I know for sure, if the Mighty Colorado carved the grand canyon the Little Colorado must pack a punch as its canyon is pretty impressive.
@Sins I live on the Rio Puerco,a tributary of the little Colorado at the confluence of Black creek, which currently is flowing more than the Puerco. Even Las Vegas wash has a minimal year round inflow, mostly treated sewage and really nasty seepage runoff, but these tributaries contribute less than 1% of the annual flow. I'm waiting for the El Nino to start and then we'll actually see what happens to the Colorado River.
@Robert Reynolds according to the gage it's currently flowing at 4680cfs as of today. It was flowing New Years day at over 1000cfs and I was there. Not sure how Grand falls being closed to outsiders is relevant but just to put that to rest my wife and I both have our tribal cards. Choctaw, Yurok and Yaqui here. We frequent the region but live in the city.
And the Gila River at Yuma is flowing at over 7000cfs. This helps Lake Mead more directly than one would assume. It's being diverted into the American Canal for Imperial Valley which is 7000cfs of California and Mexicos allotment that can be retained behind Hoover.
Groundbreaking news, I just found out lake mead is in a different state @ :24, so much has changed in the last few months, what state is it in now? Utah, maybe California
It borders Arizona and Nevada.
It's been relocated to the state of Change.
When the normal weather cycles are wetter, the lake is high. When they're dryer, the lake is low.
@@Absaalookemensch Thank you, I feel much better now. My only issue now, is I really don't like Change, that was a great comment, I got a good laugh
Idaho.
This didn't happen overnight. It's been happening over years. Great that's there is an above average snowpack but far from solving the problem. It's going to take years to come back to old levels but the demand outweighs the supply for years now. There isn't an easy solution in order to solve the problem. The future for Mead and Powell doesn't look promising at this point.
The future will be fine, what are you talking about?
The water level in Lake Mead has been falling for over a decade, not just because of high water usage in 2022
Record snowfalls in the mountains will help big time this summer
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only if elected officials allow it to
Ca has started doing massive desalination. Since the majority of people live along the coast then do a lot more desalination & let the other six states get on w/ the agreement.
What's "massive"? What the hell does that even mean?
On another note, flooding across California for the past few months results in all that water going back in the Ocean! No reclamation!! Let's continue to raise pricing!😂
what do you think fills our reservoirs- mass pee-ins??
@Tim Murphy Don't know bout you but mine might!
Mead is up one foot. And it is expected that Lake mead will rise another one foot in the coming days because of the Grand Canyon high release; (They are giving the Grand Canyon a rinse and spit for three days. Helps moving sand, beaches, fish, debris, rocks,,, to help natural processes.) Note,,, One foot,,, another one foot,, ONLY 170 more feet to go.
Huge pipelines from flood prone areas to supply water to lakes in drought ridden areas. Every year great bounties of water come down from the sky and cause insufferable damage on the effected communities. Areas that are prone to regular flooding would be great candidates for fresh water retrieval BEFORE it floods and becomes mixed with waste water and other undesirable contaminates.
Western Colorado uses very little of its allotment. Since most of Colorado’s population uses water off the Atlantic drainage, water that flows east of the continental divide. The lower basin states take most of the water. If you look at the big picture, Colorado contributes a major addition to the water, but takes very little. It’s gravity!!
Would love to see you do a video on the *real* reason Lake Mead dropped so drastically over a few years. Hint: it has almost nothing to do with climate change.
It has ABSOLTUTELY nothing to do with climate change. Everything to do with Califorlornia.
Has NOTHING to do with it 💔
@ralphmacchiato3761 Wow, that was enlightening.
For a minute there I thought the video was looping.
For a minute there I thought the video was looping.
For a minute there I thought the video was looping.
For a minute there I…….stopped the video because Lake Mead is rising because it’s not summer. 🤯🤯🤯
How much of this water is granted free to old water rights for farms in California ??? Residential water use in California is only 15% the rest is agriculture and and left over for environmental purposes like water for our salmon that have been being killed because of lack of water.
So let's screw farms even more. Can you raise your own crops?
@@Dick_Z_Normas it’s not screwing the farmers, there need to be a balance. As of now the agricultural industry has been getting far more water than everybody else.
The last 20 years there has been an increase in agricultural acreage and a decrease in water flow in Salmon. Is it OK to kill off one industry and species for another industry?
I know small commercial fisherman that are going to be out of work this year and will have to give up their businesses. And any disaster, relief money that may come to them will be too late. It’s not the small farmers sucking up the water, it’s a big corporations that are growing to export out of the country. We don’t need to feed the world.
@@Dick_Z_Normas let's get rid of almond farms. Who the fuck needs that many almond farms that use 5 times the water of normal crops?
To hell with California's water rights.
The real reason for rising water levels in Lake Mead has been me peeing in it for the last year...
Before people rag on California , remember that California has a much larger population and a lot of farms that use up much of that water. Also these farms produce food for those other states along with california .
Limiting California's water will effect food prices even more than the high prices we see already and that would be for all the states ..
Yep, 75 percent of California's use of the Colorado is for crop irrigation in one of the most fertile valleys in the country with a year long growing season.
EAT my tangerines- sorry, my current crops of kush and khali mist are all spoken for....
Rain! There just saved you from wasting 8 minutes!!!
Please, look up Bi-National Laguna Salada project! In a nutshell, flooding Laguna Salada, Mexico increases precipitation in the whole Colorado River Watershed by 15%
Natural cycle is needed hence when they built dams it killed many species of fish that swim up stream. But over all the reason Nevada is running low is because for decades they wasted on lawns and golf courses. Today Nevada keeps building big companies and casinos and homes to keep their workers close by along with the visitors that scale past 50, million visitors that can waste more water than lake mead holds. Stop blaming others when it’s your own city recklessy building and growing as if we can’t see why they are running out of water for building a city in the driest place in the United States. Why doest any one regulate those casinos? They should have never continued building homes.
Here in Michigan we have lots of water
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IN FLINT?!?!
California only has 180 miles of shoreline to the Colorado River. That is how much right they naturally have. The federal government needs to fix this. They should have the smallest right of any state.
California produces 40% of the nations food.
California has 24 million people in the southern third of the state which has a couple million more than the other six states in the Colorado Compact combined. And as Kristin said California produces 40 % of the country's produce. Careful you don't let the facts knock you down on your way to understand a problem bigger than you can imagine!!
California should build aquafiers to desalt ocean water. Instead it wants to give every Black person 5 million dollars repriations even though it was never a slave state like most of the USA.
Farms in Socal use it because they have a year long growing season. You aren't going to get much produce at 5 thousand feet in the upper watershed.
But L A. have saved water, and they are using 111 gallons of water a day down from 113 gallons a day. That is not saving. That is gross neglect.
The lake is not really rising. Lived in Las Vegas since 1986: population was over 150,000 people and now we’re at 2.2 million. Not counting a good 100-150,000 people a day visiting Las Vegas. All those showers and bed sheets being washed every day, the lake at this point can’t keep up. It will just get worst. Come back in 7 years in 2030 and tell me how great it is doing!
The hotel water isn't from Lake mead it's from private well water.
It's growth that causing the lake to drop. Don't let these environmental nuts and politicians fool you. It's all about making deals and money during their terms and let the next elected officials deal with water issues. There a new huge Lake Las Vegas development project coming. You can bet some officials back pockets are full. These people do not care about saving water. It's not their problem...it's the next elected officials ' problem
@@marcuswelby9601 Wells are going dry.
Nevada only uses 1 percent of Colorado river water at most.
Please say 'Dead Pool Status' one more time.
We do not live in the same reality i guess. Every reservoir is full in California. Sierras have 50 feet of snow. Abserd. Stop the doom and gloom
No you clearly don't live in the same reality. Many of California's reservoirs are partially or mostly filled by rain water like Lake Shasta. The ones in the Sierras will benefit from the record snow pack as it melts in spring.
Lakes Mead and Powell cannot depend on precipitation like many of California's reservoirs do for a couple reasons. One, Lakes Mead and Powell are much bigger then anything in California. And two northern Arizona is desert and thus gets much less rain than California especially this year when California received record rain fall.
That leaves us with snow pack as the primary source of water to replenish both if these reservoirs both of which have suffered over the 20+ years from drought as well as population growth. And even though Colorado has well above normal snow pack this spring it will take several really good years of snow pack to refill the reservoirs which is increasing unlikely because the climate has other ideas.
Warmer and drier weather is becoming the norm. Combine that with the continuous human pressures this every bit the crisis that it appears to be. You can only see that if you look at all the facts before drawing s conclusion!
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Except the amount of snow is projected to go up in the next couple of years there is still plenty of snow in the mountains not all of it has melted yet every lake/reservoir I've been to this year has been full or flooded not to mention all the areas near where I live (which I live in Utah the river I live near is connected to the Colorado river) are flooded too and all the canals and rivers in my area which were dry earlier this year are now full. So if everything does go up like it's supposed then lakes will continue to fill.
@@icanteven5537 That is a highly questionable prediction. This year was a record snow pack in the west and is unlikely to be repeated any time soon. The lakes will continue to rise at least through June, but it's impossible to predict with any confidence about conditions in future years.
pretty sure the only time lake mead hit deadpool status was before hoover dam was ever built.
Did anyone freak out in the late 50's and mid 60's when the population wasn't what it is today? As we already know, mis management was the cause of this. Me watering my little putting green of a back yard and washing my truck had nothing to do with it.
4, million people moved and those casinos continue building. 50, million plus visitors all the wasted water on Golf courses I counted about 100 golf courses I kid you not. Now let’s talk about why they keep building new facilities like Amazon or companies and more stadiums? It’s not regular people that lived there since your era it’s all this explosion of more places and millions who recently moved there. Add the 50, million visitors and yes that lake will dry up in 2~3, years from now watch the summer time…….
What you are ignoring in addition to the burgeoning population expansion is the effects of climate change. The southwest has been in a drought for the last 22 years which intensified last year resulting in an especially rapid decline in both Lake Mead and Powell. The snow pack may provide a temporary reprieve assuming we don't get unusually warm temperatures like last year in the last winter and early spring. The trend however is warmer drier weather because CO2 and CH4 are continuing to rise in the atmosphere.
This whole climate change thing is so absurd. Earth and it's climate has been changing since it's creation over 4 billion years ago. Of course it's changing, and it will keep changing. The fear mongering and banning of plastic straws, and telling cows not to fart is ridiculous. We've only really been studying weather with technology, for what? How many years? Not that dang many, and yet people like Greta think they have the world all figured out. Get out of here.
10,000 people to feed as if we were cattle being slaughtered created openings for you to do what you do people need to die for you to live in your small cubicle to drive in your small cubicle to enter a big institution/ facility/ big belly looking like they have eaten big boss is looking down and saying that the debt/ balance you have ain’t shit to them. Large companies influence the actions of
Stupidity and ignorance along
With positivity and change.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 but the fact that the snow pack is projected to keep going up is a good thing because it will help even more.
Take a note from the book of The Euphrates river in the fertile cresent. The more reservoirs/dams you tax a river with, the populations around those massive reservoirs explode and the consumption goes through the roof and then you start choking off supply downstream which causes even more demand. The hoover dam lake Meade reservoir was at capacity until the Davis dam came into being. The consumption tripled and it doesn't matter how much snow or rain you get, it's eventually going to dry up. They need to look for other sources of water. Maybe extending the aqueduct system from the high Sierra down into death valley and into the Colorado. They've been talking about bringing in water all the way from the coast but they won't spend the money.
LA owns the the eastern snow pack,water--on the western side of the sierras the water is already allocated--go to plan b,c,d,e,f,etc
How about building desalination plants on the ocean? What California should have started doing sixty years ago.
the drying up of the euphrates river is a prophecy coming true; it has to, in order for the kings of the east (likely rusha and shi na) to march onto israel and attack it, as stated in th bk of revelation.
In the 1960’s there was a drought in California and the SW. there was discussion then about building a desalination plant for the LA basin. But, as now, it cost too much. The cost?
About $468 million.
But they always have money to support their wars
I'm amazed that nationally/globally wide that when dry seasons hit, inland waterways are not recut. When areas are dry or even relatively dry, dig out the creeks, rivers, ponds ect. That rich soil could be used for farmland. The tuns of soil removed will allow for more water to be displaced where you want it.
Oh, the unintended consequences.
@@UncleKennysPlace Agreed, of doing nothing or the same old status quo
Problem is that would destroy most of the flora and fauna using/in the river, possibly cause shifting of the river course if you don't do it right, if the river is deeper it runs slower drops more sediment and that affects places down stream. As the reply said Oh the unintended consequences!!!
Lake Mead should be managed at the federal level and water should be allocated by a states population
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Uhhh high impact snow in the Rockies this season. You so intelligent !!
Remember. California supplies 25% of the produce to the United States. California lives under strict regulations regarding water use. Produce for your table or restaurant. comes from California.
I genuinely want to know where you got 25% and how you think that makes sense?
@@grasm03 you're right, I think he underestimated at 25%, its probably more
@@wowguy3562 yeah ok guy
Keep your avocados and fruit and wine...we will be ok without them. The central states are more important
California actually produces 40% of the produce for the US.
This could have been 2 minutes without repeating the same things over and over
OMG Why do you talk like that? Nobody talks by ending EVERY sentence on an upswing. On top of that, almost every sentence is delivered in the exact same tone and cadence. It's mind-numbingly boring and annoying? If someone told you that this is the proper way to deliver content, you were misinformed. Stop it! It's an affectation, not an effective communication method.
cal is water greedy
California produces 40% of the food for the nation.
I think he just likes to say "Dead pool status". 😂
Just a few months ago, we heard it would take 10 plus years to reverse the past 5 years. Here we are 5 months later.
California, you simply can not have green grass or endless gardens unless it comes from rain.
A video like this is irrelevant without explaining where the water goes and for what purpose. Then that purpose what does it give in return. What agriculture industry is there in Colorado, Utah, Neveda and Arizona?
wrong again- helix water district supplies me with whatever i need for my tangerine trees. they have warned us of impending cutbacks in 2045- and that was BEFORE all this rain.
@@dhrracer Let's see Utah grows a lot of Hey to feed the large amount of dairy and beef cattle we have and we grow wheat and barley as well as Apples, cherries, and peaches.
Say deadpool one more time.
Rain.
Or specifically, storms coming in dumping snow, which melts into water.
is it just me or does this dude sound extremely bored when speaking. like a kid reading his science project to class and is bored
Personally, I don't think you can say the words, "dead pool status" too often.
F California,
might California review it's opposition since it's reservoirs and snowpack have improved recently?
even if it is rising right now it is only going to get worse here in a few months. I think the dumbest thing is watering lawns. To be honest the entire status quo of having the perfect Green Yard is ridiculously horrible. I understand wanting to keep pests down and unwanted weeds that cause allergies or physical harm... but the whole idea of having to have the perfect 1950s yard where everybody is on the same time and just everything is perfectly trimmed and green and just grass nothing else it's just it's just so stupid it's a dumb thing that we still do it's just why why do we feel like we need to have the perfect yard I don't know I'm ranting I if anybody is actually reading this more power to you because I'm giving up on myself but anyway down in the Southwest watering lawns and having a damn golf course in the middle of the desert. Also found it, cold that the individuals that would frequent lake Mead for recreational boating reasons would wait in an air-conditioned running car for 4 hours just to get to the boat ramp. All the while questioning why the water is going down to record lows and what is causing these changes in the environment?
Lake Mead is a manmade lake, it's literally part of the problem you are complaining about, altering natural river ways so that cities can suck it dry.
Well that's why El nino need to be big because most water comes from the snow pack in the mountains and if people want lawns just get fake ones it makes more sense to conserve water I understand watering a garden if you grow food in it but not just something to look at. If it wasn't clear I think you're right.