Michigan is surrounded buy water. All the lakeshore communities pull water from the lakes. But inland, people use well water and the ancient aquufers are running dry. Mid state we have Nestles pulling millions of gallons a day of FREE WATER out of the ground to bottle and sell. In fact they have just been allowed to pull even MORE out of the ground. MAN, I bet theres some corruption involved there.
I used to have a decent sized powerboat and a group of us from here drug them to lake Powell for a 2 week trip, it just hard to fathom that much water disappearing ..
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
[Re: bigdad]
#3036051 04/22/2202:07 PM04/22/2202:07 PM
Would appear Hoover dam and a few other hydroelectric plants are falling to a point that their ability to continue to produce power is in question Hmm might want to hold off on that EV purchase And remember, you heard it here first, on MOPARTS LOL
It's always amazed me how they decided to build such huge cities in the dessert so far away from any significant fresh water. Seems like someone could make a fortune laying a water pipe along the coast to get water from the sacremento river, or columbia river or several smaller rivers or something. They could lay an undersea water pipe down the coast to LA just like they do oil pipes and if it leaks big freaking deal, patch it up and no mess to clean up! Take the pressure off LA using that water and Vegas and Phoenix would be free to use the colorado without worrying about running it dry (for a while) and let those fake lakes fill back up.
I am not causing global warming, I am just trying to hold off a impending Ice Age!
Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
[Re: bigdad]
#3036108 04/22/2207:35 PM04/22/2207:35 PM
5 or so years ago I wondered: Where would be the best spot to bore a tunnel to divert water from the Missouri/Mississippi watershed to the Colorado River watershed?
What did I learn?
Denver was already doing.... the opposite!
There are multiple tunnels bringing Colorado River water through the mountains to Denver, where it ends up in the sewer plants hat empty in the Platt River system and flows east to the Mississippi watershed.
There is a chapter in “Sand County Almanac” about the swamp that used to exist where the Colorado emptied into the Gulf of California. Sand now.
I took a great white water rafting trip about 1979 down the Colorado River.
Saw a great documentary last year about Dick Griffith the legendary river guide and wilderness marathon racer who took the first inflatable raft over Lava Falls and then returned in his late 80s to be the oldest to row himself over lava falls.
And most people don't know that the French have been buying up water companies throughout the USA for decades! After all they ARE the people who started the hole bottled water thing. Do some research on that, it is eye-opening!
The funny thing about science is that if you change one miniscule parameter you change the entire outcome to the way you want it.
L.A. has been stealing, buying, paying for water canals and piping water from all over CA since the turn of the century. The first stolen bought water is from the Owens valley on the east side of the Seirra Mountains, it is piped and uses gravity fed water in canals to get to L.A. The next one is the All American canal from the south east corner of CA along the Colorado river and is routed from their through the Imperial and Coachella valleys and pump it into L.A. from the bottom of the White Water grade. Their are another one or two canals from the Colardo river, one form the Parker Dam ,Lake Havazu, feeding that water into L.A. The last water piping project taking water form the Sacramento central CA area is the Feather river project that was built in the late 1960s and finish in the early 1970. Some of the wiser cities along the coast like Santa Barbera and several others further north on the coast have built and are using water desalination plants to reclaim and use ocean water The immigration, legal and illegal, of all people into SO CA should have been stop years ago due to the water problems and other crisis like no more space for them
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
[Re: Cab_Burge]
#3036147 04/22/2209:14 PM04/22/2209:14 PM
An optimist would say Lake Powell is 30% full! I wish I could send some of our water. My pumps kicking on every 10 minutes from today’s downpours. Illinois has no shortage of taxes, corruption, crime or water.
Michigan is surrounded buy water. All the lakeshore communities pull water from the lakes. But inland, people use well water and the ancient aquufers are running dry. Mid state we have Nestles pulling millions of gallons a day of FREE WATER out of the ground to bottle and sell. In fact they have just been allowed to pull even MORE out of the ground. MAN, I bet theres some corruption involved there.
Water, the future oil!
Last summer while in Ludington, MI. the water level of Lake Michigan was higher than I have ever seen it in 50 years.
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