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Seven States sign landmark Colorado River deal at Hoover Dam

Stevicus

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States sign short-term Colorado River drought plan, but global warming looms over long-term solutions

Representatives of seven Western states and the federal government signed a landmark deal on Monday laying out potential cuts in water deliveries through 2026 to reduce the risks of the river’s reservoirs hitting critically low levels.

Yet even as they celebrated the deal’s completion on a terrace overlooking Hoover Dam and drought-stricken Lake Mead, state and federal water officials acknowledged that tougher negotiations lie ahead. Their task starting next year will be to work out new rules to re-balance the chronically overused river for years to come.

Figuring out how to do that will be complicated because the Colorado River, which supplies water for vast farmlands and more than 40 million people, is managed under a nearly century-old system of allocations that draws out more than what flows in from rain and snow in an average year.

The main issue at hand is drought, which has been a long-term malady. They got some relief this past winter with heavier snows than average, but the water levels of Lake Mead are getting low. The arid, desert climate of the Southwest isn't really meant to support such large populations.
 

columbus

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The main issue at hand is drought, which has been a long-term malady. They got some relief this past winter with heavier snows than average, but the water levels of Lake Mead are getting low. The arid, desert climate of the Southwest isn't really meant to support such large populations.
How much did they agree to leave for the sea life in the Gulf of California and the people who depend on it?
Little? Or nothing?
Tom
 

David T

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How much did they agree to leave for the sea life in the Gulf of California and the people who depend on it?
Little? Or nothing?
Tom
As I was blasting up i5 on my trusty motorcycle through the San Joaquin there were billboards asking for more dams. So my guess to your question is that the sea life and people who depend on it were deemed freeloaders and should give the folks further up river water. I live in Oregon and there was a proposal to divert water from the Columbia to California. Hahahahahaha a$$holes.that obviously went no where fast.
 

icehorse

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Maybe we should be more careful how we use water? E.g., do we really need Kentucky bluegrass lawns in Las Vegas?
 

Audie

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Or swimming pools, meat factories, hotel fountains, etc?
Why do so many Americans feel entitled to wastage?
Tom

In Seattle they do not bother with fountains, as
in that soggy place, it is not showing off to
shoot water into the sky.
 

Audie

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Or swimming pools, meat factories, hotel fountains, etc?
Why do so many Americans feel entitled to wastage?
Tom

When Europeans found the Americas, they acted
like the proverbial weasel in the henhouse.

I wonder if the paleoindians didnt do the same
thing, when they found two continents full of
animals with no fear of people.
 

columbus

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In Seattle they do not bother with fountains, as
in that soggy place, it is not showing off to
shoot water into the sky.
Where I live, there's no shortage of water either.

Kinda the opposite. The draining and channelling of ancient flood plains and building on those plains, has resulted in having what used to be called a "500 year flood" every 10 years or so.
Tom
 

Stevicus

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How much did they agree to leave for the sea life in the Gulf of California and the people who depend on it?
Little? Or nothing?
Tom

I don't know, but I recall a documentary about the Colorado in which they showed just how much is actually left by the time it reaches the Gulf of California. It's not even a real river by that point.
 
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