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Welcome back Colorado River Watchers! In this water level report we’ll look how all the rain and flooding turned to snow and ice come early spring. We'll examine where the snowpack levels finally reached around April 1st, the average peak date. In today's stories we'll first cover the record amounts of water California has released from reservoirs like Oroville and Shasta in order to make room for more snowmelt. Then, right here outside Lake Mead in Southern Nevada, new cloud seeding studies are being carried out by the Desert Research Institute to bolster rain and snow in the local mountains. All this as the Nevada Governor calls on the Federal Government to release more public lands in the desert outside Las Vegas to build affordable housing...
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I would be interested in learning more about the cloud seeding too. Living here in Arizona I have not heard about this being tried here.
@@alanbiancardi2531 Gotcha, thanks for the comment👍 I'll definitely have to look into it further. See what I can dig up for a future video!
Thank you for the comment back the like. I did not realize that Vernon had any followers like you. I watch your reviews all the time as far as Lake Mead goes. It’s nice to know that he still has some people from Nevada and Arizona following him he’s a good man.
@@ralphwood4814 Of course! Appreciate you watching the updates, it really helps us grow the channel. We just do this as a hobby but are hoping to expand our reach in the future👍 Are you referring to a Vernon here on KZhead?
California seriously needs to build more water storage now!
Untold amounts of fresh water run off in the British of Colombia oceans has been desalinating those waters for a long time now. It's crazy with all the money we spend in CA that we don't work something out like New York did with their water coming from Canada... These people are all talk and con artists... They want to help no one but themselves and their friends in reality, bound to those who paid for them to get into office...
They already should have had a desalination plant, or 2 or 3 constructed. 🤦♂
@@jakerazmataz852 Super complicated 1) There is no "They". Water rights are complicated web of local districts, farmers, corporate investors, environmental organizations, state, local, and federal governments... and all their lawyers. Its a very Cowboy, capitalistic system. 2) Desalination is way more expensive than the alternatives... a) incentivizing farmers not to grow the most water intensive crop (alfalfa) b) City water districts paying farmers for irrigation water c) Farmers paying Vegas and Phoenix for conserving water and relinquishing their shares OR paying the upper basin states for their shares. 3) Total water volume is not an issue in California (see #2), not nearly to the same degree as the Persian Gulf or Israel. 4) There is plentiful low hanging fruit, easy opportunities. CA has already started construction of the Sites Reservoir and there are contingency plans to simply raise the dam levels at existing reservoirs.
@@stevewest6133 And where, pre tell, is this NEW source of water coming from, to fill this res.? All the lakes would be fill IF there was water.
They have been and are. There are literally over 10,000 dams in CA already, only two rivers are un-dammed. There are 6 new water storage facilities being built and also the 1.5maf sites reservoir starting this year.
The Mojave desert has seen more water this year than in the 40 years I’ve lived here😊 they want more!
As fast as California uses water they need full capacity on all Lakes❤
The problem is that if the water was not released from full reservoirs before a storm, there would have been flooding downstream, with the water lost anyway. It is good to remember that most of our reservoirs were built as much for flood control as for water retention. More reservoirs in California might be nice, but is there a place to put them? Also, it could not happen immediately. Legislation has to be passed, studies of where to put them done, engineering figured out, and finally construction done. It’s not a quick process.
California used to have a "can do" attitude, now it's only excuses why nothing can be done.
It's a win win! A population that doesn't need crops also doesn't need any drinking water.
Thank God for the water!
We should be harvesting fresh water through solar desalination and ocean fog collecting. California is building a new dam to store water. But you are correct they need to build more storage. California is pumping water underground to refill aquifers.
Wind turbines should be used to power desalination plants on windy coastal areas
@@jiggsborah7041 Harvesting ocean fog appears to be very efficient
@@andrewday3206 ... totally. I spent a lot of time looking at how renewable energy is being applied and I'm afraid that emotions have dealt the industry a very hard blow. I have moved on because the climate change people have been a real problem causing people to hate what was evolving naturally. I think that the focus on power generation should be diverted to desalination. I have come up with a few viable turbine designs for just that purpose. I have also looked at biomass gasification processes that could also be used to desalinate water that is entering the ocean from rivers before it becomes saturated with salt to help supply towns and cities inland. My feeling is that we really need reduce the amount of water that we draw from the river system. Many of the rivers I grew up around have been reduced to mere trickles now yet everyone is looking up at the sky
nah, we just need to bring back the beavers to re-create wetlands. This will raise the water table permanently. We need to stop destroyiblng habitats and limit development. Deport all illegal immigrants to reduce water demand, etc. And then the agriculture in Cali need to utilize berm and swale, permaculture methods and abandon the monocrop strategy that has led to so many problems and is unsustainable.
How about STOP building in the dessert. I know that's a foreign idea, and is hard to comprehend. 🤦♂
Control the market ❤
Once again very informative making it easy to understand the dynamics of the upper and lower river basin with the states involved. Thanks Mojo Adventures
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Another storm or two is on deck to add even more snow to the Upper and Lower Basin. SWE could possibly hit up to 120%+ based on day and date average. Quite possible that the drop in Mead won't be as large as we're thinking seeing CA has had a good water year as well. It'll go down sure... but then it will of course go up too. Here's hoping it goes above 1090 feet this fall!
Excellent outlook then👍 I don't think the drop will be as big either unless operations change to fill Powell. I saw the USBR updated their 24-month study and they don't have Mead going as low as they did at the start of the year. Good stuff! Thank you for watching
If you really know Mead and Powell, there is a Tremendous about of room for more water, much more. The trick is timing. All for cloud seeding. Great program here, waiting on your next one. Thanks, well done.
Spot on! With both reservoirs well under 50% capacity there is definitely gobs of storage for the Colorado River system. Unfortunately the excess water isn't there in the Colorado System. On the other hand California has the excess water but not enough storage. It seems the problem really isn't that hard to fix... there are just too many interests working against each other. Thank you for watching!
Thanks for all the Work you do!
You're welcome thank you for checking out the video!👍
You know that catchment basins would improve the water table!
Interesting Thank you From VEGAS 🇺🇸
Thanks for watching Vegas neighbour! 👍
Bravo......big problem with snow on mountains .......if they get a warm rain......famous for floods.......cheers
A little history regarding cloud seeding: The historic California flood of 1955-56 was the result of this method of water management....The state withheld this information in order to avoid lawsuits caused by the flooding waters.
Well this is certainly interesting, I will be looking into that more for sure. Thank you for the comment! 👍
Of course, it’s a conspiracy
That is not verified and cloud seeding has primarily proven to be ineffective and that's why it has been around for almost 75 years without any real popularity across the entire world.
@@user-ke9yk5qp3u Hate to break it to ya buddy but I was there when it happened, was employed by the Sacramento Bee at the time. Somewhere in the early too mid 60’s the story was published, research it then report back.
@@user-ke9yk5qp3u Reason it was abandoned is unreliability, California DWR made the first attempt in November 55, made a second in December, that set it off.
Yes tell us more about cloud seeding.. Very interesting!
Right on👍 I'm hoping to get more info on it or even see one in action. Then I can put together a whole separate podcast soon. Thank you for watching!
First thing is that it's been happening for well over 50 years. Maybe even longer
Acid rain remember?
Go Great Basin!
cloud seeding began in the 1940's. and by 1949 one guy in Colo was seeding over 200,000sqmi. in the 4 corners area. As we read in "Tomarrow is Already Here", Robert Jungk 1953
Very interesting, thank you for the comment! I am going to have to look into that book and data further now👍
@@mojo.adventures R Jungk also wrote "Brighter Than A THousand Suns", on development of A Bomb. He interivewed the players and its Very interesting
And across the course of the entire world, cloud seeding has primarily proven to be unreliable and ineffective
@@user-ke9yk5qp3u Well, in 2008 I googled weather modication companies and found over 20 companies and 100 planes awaiting a phone call. I should have downloaded the sites. I googled again recently and now I find nothing. Nada. Zero. So something is up, I doubt they went out of business. For effectiveness google Project Popeye. One guy flew the Ho CHin Min trial area in 1967 and his cloud seeding created rain that did more damage than all the bombs.....I saw this story in 1969 on a TV show on weather modification. It lasted 6 weeks and was removed. Not sure of the name of the show.
I live in NW Ohio, have received close to one foot of rain since spring started.
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Your comment about releasing large amounts of water from oroville and shasta seemed to imply rhe water was being wasted and not available for later use. They are releasing it for flood control purposes now to make sure there is not another repeat of what caused it to overtop a few years ago. If there is a big warm storm it can quickly fill up any remaining space in the reservoir. Its an imperfect guessing game played with fish, energy, flood control, recreation temperature all playing a part. I agree that we need more off stream storage or groundwater recharge so all this water doesnt get wasted.
You nailed it! An "imperfect guessing game" describes it to a T👍 It seems like the easiest and most obvious solution would have been to build more storage as the cities in California were growing. Those plans seem to have been abandoned. Water managers now longer care about proving there is enough water supply for decades out before developing more they just build and kick the can down the road... now here we are!
Arizona has a program (AWBA) to store excess water in aquifers; I saw an article that Cali was investigating similar ideas but haven't heard anything further. California now appears behind AZ and NV in many respects.
They need to slow down on it,having a Springtime would be awesome
Great news
People that manage the water need a “lesson” Especially the cloud feeders. AKA seeders.
5:30 was everything we see here under water at one point? Except the ranges in the far distance maybe.
They’re controlling the weather. That’s scary 😅
Thank you for this video! The Water shortage might be part of a bigger/longer scenario as the desert southwest ecosystems adjust to changing conditions.
Welcome back and thank you for watching👍 That could be part of it for sure. They way I see it, we should have planned around the worst drought years from the start. Instead we planned based around a couple of the best flood years. That started a lot of these issues we're dealing with now. We should have been adjusting and changing with the desert southwest.
Might ? You're spot on, so don't quibble with them.
You guys should see what's going on in the San Joaquin valley. Nearly everyday we start with clear blue skies and by 3 pm they're covered with the remnents of dozens of aircraft "residue" is the only way to put it. The jet "contrails" never go away, they just spread out all across the valley. This has been going on since the pandemic started and now a lot of people are having resperatory problems around here more than normal.
You just need to broaden that brim on your tinfoil hat.
How low is your IQ?
Have you noticed any more rain or humidity lately? On the DRI website they specifically point out that he cloud seeding projects they are doing are different from the contrails coming from the jets. I bet they get asked that a lot! Interestingly enough they also have a video where they are testing a unmanned cloud seeding UAV drone. I'm not sure if they've actually put those in service yet.
Look up Dane Wigington. Open your eyes and look up Rob.
@@RobTeeJrI travel to other parts of California. Funny how contrails don't last but a few seconds over their skies. And I don't see two three jets flying in formation like I do over the San Joaquin valley. Unless you see the sky. But you can't with your head up your ass and that is why, you'll know not if it's dark outside or light.
Hi, well it appears that there is some progress overall on improving the water levels, albeitly however it would appear that an overall management policy is still not better preserving the lakes and river systems. Do you think that the " managers " of the policies are being bold enough to make calls on how the water usage can best be delivered. Once again awesome content and great info overall - you must be putting in hours of research to create each video- they are a great watch each time. Take care....... hello again from New Zealand.
Hi there welcome back! Thanks for checking out another update 👍 I think some of the water managers (in the lower basin especially) are begrudgingly starting to accept what's coming. They are still looking for every legal/economic reason to avoid it though. 2026 is when the real changes are going to start. What's interesting though, I'm noticing water districts that once protected the long time farmers are starting to turn on them once they've seen the potential residential profits and payouts involved with selling water rights. I don't think the farmers are going to have much protection anymore and the farms are going to be phased out in preference of urban sprawl. It seems both our federal government and wall street are backing that plan now. I'm not sure how this will affect the food supply chain but it most certainly will!
this is top notch, you do great work, should have 2 million subscribers
Wow thanks, that is motivating👍 If only the editing wouldn't take so long... much rather be outdoors🤠
Always curious as to how it is out there. Glad for the gains, but population growth may easily offset it.
No more construction without figuring out where the water is going to come from or at least figure out who is going to pay for the water collection/generation.
Solid plan👍 A proposed "Coyote Springs" development just got halted here north of Las Vegas because the developer was trying to gain water rights over a nearby aquifer they would certainly drain. These developers here are hawks and work hand-in-hand with city leaders and local politicians to do crony land deals. That is why construction will never stop in Vegas. Remember our leadership pushed through the new Raiders Stadium in the midst of the shutdowns and increasing drought. "Essential"
@@mojo.adventures good, you have to keep your family jewels, so many of these developers have put the screws on communities, look what happened to Owen’s Valley and ChinaTown schisters.
I hope that coyote springs BS never happens, that golf course is a joke also. Vegas should never have been allowed to grow so large. And don't forget what damage all the solar boondoggles they want to build in Nevada will do. Water draw from aquifers, outright destruction of intact desert wilderness and habitat, invasive weed vectoring via disturbed and dug up bare ground, the false lake shine that attracts birds to a mirage essentially, and all subsidized by taxpayers dollars because they aren't viable otherwise. Cloud seeding seems phoney, governments have better tech than that, lol.
CORRECTION- The Colorado Aqueduct does not extend up into Bakersfield. It feeds the Southern CA water grid. That highlighted section of canal at 9:00 is actually the California Aqueduct, which is pumped over the mountains separating LA and Bak, and then also feeds the SoCal grid. If you've ever driven I-5 Southbound from Bak to Southern CA, you may notice the massive pipelines near the foot of the Grapevine. That is water is being pumped uphill, over the mountains, and southward to LA!
Good info, thank you for the correction!👍 It's hard to tell from a simple diagram where exactly the water is going. In the future we will really hope to travel the miles of aqueduct and document the system. This info fills a little piece of the puzzle for us. Appreciate you watching and commenting!
Paying farmers not to farm? That is a crime!!!
The other option is to cut their water and not support them financially so they aren't there when situations improve.
How about this..... Compensating farmers to fallow fields and give up their water during exceptional droughts is a fair deal. When billion $ private investment funds by farm land for the purpose of hoarding, inflating, and reselling water rights (that is happening), they should be prosecuted for securities violations.
Who wouldn’t want to live on top of a super fund site! I sincerely hope they build mega mansions on that.
Not only live on top of it... but you get to pay for the cleanup while you live on top of it for the short duration of just 45 years. They are literally pushing the arsenic and lead into the pit and burying it: www.reviewjournal.com/local/henderson/planned-housing-development-on-old-henderson-mine-has-experts-concerned-2914445/
Brooklyn ny in the house
What's up Brooklyn! Don't come to Vegas right now... it feels like Brooklyn outside 😂
Grew up in QUEENS IN VEGAS NOW ITS WAY BETTER THAN SO CAL👍😎🇺🇸
What would it take to divert the overflow to other rivers. Could a tunnel be dug (thinking Boring Company) or water pipe line (similar to oil pipe lines). Not a constant flow, unless that's needed. I assume one of the first steps would be an ecological survey. I'm not saying it needs to g to the Colorado river, just to another river that is currently under supplied. Or maybe that river gets closer to the Colorado, and some of it's waters could be diverted down stream.
After seeing the colossal 3rd intake project being installed under Lake Mead a decade ago, I don't doubt a Boring type tunnel project could be constructed. From what I've gathered doing these updates though, many folks are against the pipeline idea. It seems the consensus is that it will "move" the problem to another region, or even suck that region dry also. Back in 2022 there were talks of moving water from the Mississippi or the Great Lakes but these were quickly shut down. You can imagine that folks in the midwest don't want any of the wasteful users in the southwest to get a hold of their resources!
Cleaning up the toxic site near Henderson is great news.
And lake powell dam has fractures in the granite/bedrock it is losing millions of gallons into the cracks below the dam! So maybe this is why they are letting the water flow downstream while they can before they lose it tomthe cracks? Not sure their reasoning!?
Exactly!
I have read about the "seepage" occuring at Lake Powell and so far it has been mostly unaccounted for. Seepage is another phantom drain happening along the river just like evaporation. I covered a little bit of this in our "Behind the Drought 2" video linked in this episode. The porous sandstone was not an ideal substrate for water retention!
Is polymer being used to cloud seed in Las Vegas?
I think it's silver iodine.. But I could be wrong
It is silver iodide particles according to DRI 👍
Do you think we will become amune to aluminum and barium
Thankfully in this case only silver iodide is being used to do the seeding. I'm not sure of the long term effects I'll have to look into it, but aluminum has been in products like deodorant for ages. I'm not sure we'd become "immune" to any of the toxins I'd probly call it more "mutated"!
Diamond Valley lake was completed in 2003. So Cal. Riverside county. As far as I know, no large water storage projects have been built. Ok, Kalifornia, plenty of room for solar projects, BUT NOT Water storage! Humans have been able to live without Electricity for years...But not Water!
Being a state with many earthquake faults this is why our state needs to be mindful what can be built within our geological parameters. You all have heard of Francisquito Dam disaster failure. Then in Lake Isabella the original earthen dam is failing so they had to build an additional one. You just do not snap your fingers and say “hey, this is a good place for a dam”. “We need more storage” Live within your means.
Hi there. I was a kid in elementary school in the sixties and seventies and I lived in an arid east African country at the time. Aircraft were used in an attempt to reduce the effects of drought to seed silver iodide or something in the clouds. In December 1973 there was a very powerful tropical storm passed over and it dumped a huge amount of water on the place and roads and bridges were washed away and we had no electricity supply for a while. Of course the aircraft were blamed and the local people didn't like it when they saw ANY aircraft flying around after that 😂😂😂😂
That is an interesting story, thank you for sharing! I could understand their paranoia after that. Reminds me of a movie we watched back in the day on VHS "The Gods must be Crazy". There was a bush pilot flying over the wilderness and he threw a Coca-Cola bottle out the airplane window which hit an unsuspecting bushman in the head. He must of thought it came from heaven!
@@mojo.adventures ... Yes indeed 🤣... in the early eighties there was a bad drought and a big new reservoir was being built in the mountains. There was a lot of blasting work and this of course was attributed to causing the drought... in February 84 we had a cyclone (Demoina) come through and cause massive damage.
The water issue out West (or, lack there of) is getting scary and serious. I live on the other side of the US in Virginia, but I'm very concerned. So I'm doing my part and switching to vodka. Every little bit helps.
You aren't lying. We appreciate the effort out west here, cheers!🍺🤠
They'll start crying acid rain again!
Anything helps
What are the developers paying to have the SUPERFUND SITE (AKA poisoned earth and water) "reclaimed"? I would love to learn more!
Currently the estimate is at $250 Million to reclaim the site which was apparently more than the total value of the land sale itself. We will definitely be watching the development unfold. Thank you for watching!
What lower basin are you talking about? California is not a part of the Colorado River basin. The heavy rainfall and discharges, in California, are in basins to which Colorado waters are not delivered.
Really?!?! The Colorado river is the border of California and Arizona. Look at a map. C’mon people. California feeds this nation so my guess is you’d rather starve. Fine with us. We’ll keep it ourselves and watch you all wither away.
According to the USBR California is indeed part of the lower Colorado basin. They use the most amount of river water out of all the basin states. You are correct in that the rain and discharges are not delivered to the Colorado River basin, and that debacle is all clearly explained on the aqueduct map at 8:41. I know it doesn't make any sense, right?
A new reservoir is ready to start construction in 2025. $4 billion Sites Reservoir in COLUSA COUNTY.
Nothing is affordable in las vegas
To build a new structure in a drought region there should be a hydro tax. I'm not a fan of taxes but every new dwelling needs more electricity and more water
Permaculture look up Afric desert regrowths
Don't mess with MOTHER NATURE fine example Dubai .
Simply reverse the flow and feed the Colorado from Lake Shasta.
Taking water from other lakes will never be the answer. Mead isn't even a lake, its a reservoir. Never wreck a lake to save a man made water reserve. How counterproductive.
@@justme-dm7sb Shasta isn't a Lake. If it wasn't for the dam, it wouldn't be there. Sadly, due to WW2, the dam wasn't built to full height but the dam has the correct foundation and lower half to go from 4.5 million acre feet to over the 7 million acre feet it was designed for.
@@Swampster70 It really should be left alone. Its nowhere near there. Let them waste their resources and suffer their consequences of doing so. Its crazy the amount of conservation effort they don't put in. The wastefulness is outragous.
That would be interesting! Problem is the entire Colorado River aqueduct and pumps are based on elevations and flow one-way from east to west. Also, I would imagine Northern Californians would never agree to that because the Imperial Valley would still suck it dry. They have all they water rights. I doubt that water would even reach the river...
Good news I guess
What is a bazin?
In simplest terms it's just a valley, dip, or depression in terms of geography. Think bowl or a tub. Most of central Nevada is made up of "Basin & Range" features... mountain, valley, mountain, valley 👍
If they can build a pump station to pump water from the Colorado river all the way to Phoenix Arizona. Then why can’t they do the same thing coming from the extra water the California has to release into the ocean?
They could, but it would be fruitless. Water managers will say that those releases are required for environmental reasons, like protecting fish habitats downstream and recharging natural groundwater supply (which is true). But eventually they are going to have to choose between fish, farmers, or their growing population. Besides those reasons no one wants to give up water or use less. That idea would be a non-starter with California water managers. There is a real "us vs them" mentality there regarding this issue, especially in the Imperial Valley.
Well we need water....
Every cloud has a silver iodide lining?
www.independent.com/2022/12/29/every-cloud-has-a-silver-iodide-lining/ 👍
There is no water shortage. There is, however, a very large storage shortage !
well said! 👍
It's been a question for a while, why do they allow droughts when they can easily make it rain? If they can make snow for the rich to go skiing, they can help crops and reservoirs.
The only thing I could think of is the whiplash effect... maybe if there is too much seeding one year it would be extremely dry for a few years and the seeding wouldn't do much? I'm going to try and get as much info as I can on the project.
How about "control" look up Dane Wiginton
@@hefayu1075 govern ment, Hebrew is backwards to our language and this means mind control.
I think California should be charged for the release of water into the ocean against the amount of water they receive from the Colorado River. This would incentivize the conservation of water, I think, and greatly reduce the burden on the Colorado River system. Appreciate your feedback on that.
Oh this is very interesting, I haven't heard of an idea like that before! That would definitely have to come from the federal level. Since the USBR was reluctant to already enforce the existing shortage penalties in 2022, I don't think it would ever pass. The argument would be that water managers in California are required to release a certain amount for environmental reasons and to recharge groundwater. Those rules would have to be modified first, and I don't think water managers would willingly do that. No one wants to give up any water. Or try to give up as little as possible. It's like bickering siblings down here in the lower basin...
Cloud seeding - well there's your man made climate chanhe rigjt there.
They can have the water from the flooded Ohio
Need to Regulate water to Calif, allow Farmers to cultivate cut cities! They have an Ocean to get water from! Calif problem is MISS MANAGEMENT OF WATER, FOREST,LAND!
its the end of the world as we know it AND I FEEL FINE
I think that the CLOUD SEEDING "GROUP" needs to READ PAST SEEDING EVENTS! Course that wouldn't line their pockets!
Paying to not grow crops is not the answer. Stopping the need to dump water into the Ocean is a much better option. Almost a billion to manage the Colorado River Basin is too much if it does not address the need to stop dumping fresh water into the Ocean. All they are doing is increasing the cost of food and wastinfg a preshious commodity, water. It's time to redirect that water into another region to save it. It can then direct that water to farmland where needed.
Good comment and great points👍 I also see some bad unintended effects from paying off farmers... like less crops leading to more expensive prices everywhere. Or even worse, a single point centralized food source. The payoffs are just band-aid's like you pointed out. We can't keep doing this because farmers have already demanded more $$$ for the "next round" of payments. It's going to snowball out of control and we will still not have the water we need.
@mojo.adventures I met a few good ol boys down south that never planted peanuts in their life but lived quite well to not plant the families peanut acreage
Dumping water into the ocean is also called recharging the ground water basin through our river systems making it available for farmland across the course of the year. Don't oversimplify it.
Within your comment, there is absolutely no consideration for the natural environment. The natural environment requires water to exist. FYI the Numbers of fish populations in the West have over the last hundred years. Drop precipitously 90%. Mainly due to damning Rivers.
Instead of that, an instead of paying them not to grow crops, they could use that money to install root tap drip systems which they can grow the same crops for half. The water sounds a lot better than paying them not to do anything.
If you leave it to Federal government to make agreements in order to solve the water issue; good luck! All they will do is to make it more expensive for working people to pay for water use and also, control farmers to not grow crops so that we import everything we eat from other countries and that makes everything even more expensive. Not to mention, Federal government have to print more money in order to pay farmers for them to not be productive!! That makes a lot of sense, doesn't it!!!?
I'm also concerned about paying off farmers because this would lead to a centralized food supply of sorts. Maybe that is the goal? Definitely not good for the supply chain as we saw with the shutdown though. You don't want to rely on a single point food source. What we should have outside all this growing big cities like Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, is regional grow warehouses or food plots. They could even be offset by rooftop solar in the warehouses. Each city needs to learn to be more self-sufficient in the areas they try to grow in.
Cloud seeding is why the lakes are going dry in Nevada they move the clouds
Shame we can't just tell LA to drink Evian and look elsewhere for water... ;) NorCal resident here. Those SoCal desert dwellers can keep their hands of the Central Valley Project water and leave it to the Central Valley. No hate, just no love.
Haha I feel it! Southern Californians getting ganged up on. Same as it ever was since the Owens Valley went dry 👍 It's sad, but many in that region are just barely starting to realize what's been going on with the water supply and how much is "imported" to sustain agriculture and residential sprawl. It's been an endless bounty for them for so long. It's easy to overlook it all though when you don't see Lake Mead weekly like us here in Las Vegas. No one panics until the wells and taps go dry.
You are looking at old data. You should know that 9 million acre feet hasn't been updated as it is only 7.5 and the website is wrong. Just thought I would let you know.
Great catch @dobrinich I completely overlooked that! Thank you for commenting👍 I forgot the USBR was going to start accounting for the conservation amounts and the evaporative losses soon too.
Why are they releasing lots of water they should have a minimum flow right now they have how many feet to fill the reservoir minimum flow would help fill the reservoir keep it full instead of wasting the water you have several reservoirs in between Colorado and California that can take the moisture quit putting water in legislation and do the right thing
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The reservoirs have a maximum discharge rate. Which is lower than the inflow rate in print snow melt. Particularly if the weather turns warm and rainy. They are releasing water to gain the reservoir capacity, to hold the spring snowmelt, of the snow pack currently in the mountains.
It really comes down to a lack of storage. They need more water, they have the water, but they don't have the space. Southern California already sucked Owens Valley dry long ago. They will do it to Northern California and the Colorado also if more storage isn't built there or desalination projects started.
@@mojo.adventures correct
Perhaps someone downstream needs water too?
Releasing water into the ocean is called miss management of resources. If California keeps this up then they definitely don’t care about the water. It’s really easy cut the flow back from lake mead and solve the problem. you need to make a decision on what is more important water or electricity. Right now it literally looks like electricity is going to win.
I agree, there shouldn't be anything released until the water shortages and urban sprawl problems are all accounted for. It just seems like a method of control and taxation really. Increasing storage should have been built around the cities as they grew over the decades, but at some point in the 80's/90's all that went out the window in favour of unfettered "progress".
Not speculative, there is major Geo-technical weather modification going on before reaching to the desert, many in California, but many are located in the pacific ocean off islands and/or on military vessels. Cloud seeding material are transported by train to California desert refining facilities, then going underground to nearby major military aircraft bases. Material to be aerosol by means of chemtrail, and maneuvered by HAARPY our friendly aural array systems. HAARPY has advanced to military vessels, as land facilities get too much attention from citizens. Put it this way, I watch modified weather coming into San Diego from the pacific, where it brought to the desert. I see it in Anza California. The high flyers delivering chemtrail is from Edwards AFB...right in the middle of the Mojave Desert where there is nobody around. The west does require water obviously, but not at the expense of the unknown repercussions in nature.
Interesting info, thank you for sharing all that👍 I was just reading an article about cloud seeding that was going on a few years back in Santa Barbara. I'm just starting to find out how widespread all these projects are. We have had a couple great water years lately so it makes you wonder of the effect it is having (or not) "Every Cloud has a Silver Iodide Lining" www.independent.com/2022/12/29/every-cloud-has-a-silver-iodide-lining/
According the the climate alarmists there shouldn't be anymore "wet years".
I enjoy the updates, but you are certainly a glass half empty guy. Us Northwest people were fine with El Nino so you could start to refill your greedy use of water in the Southwest. As La Nina returns, we'll get our ample winters back, and you can be as negative as you want. Why would the lower basin using only 30% be an issue? They had massive rain and didn't need it, when that happens they STILL have to give them that 30% extra later in the year? With conservation efforts like that, we'll take our water back, thank you.
There is no way should ever be sending them water anyway. Foolish is as foolish does.
My wife has said the same thing before so I can't disagree with you there😂 I like to think of myself as more of a "ruthless realist"👍 Keeping with that theme, I think you misunderstood the 30% figure also... it's worse than you thought. It's not that CA & AZ are only using 30% this year, it means only 30% of the REQUIRED release has been delivered so far. Farmers like those in the Imperial Valley with senior water rights still demand 100% of the yearly minimum or a payoff instead to use less water. Apparently there may be a sort of water mafia controlling the water district. They don't care what's happening upstream or with the environment. You are right to want to keep your water in your region. The lower basin is a mess. The farther downstream you go it seems the worse it gets...
We in California need to get proactive and demand more water storage. Why can we build pipelines from runoff and rainfall that would go directly to lake Mead? I mean, we are the ones that sucked the water out of it all these years...wait that make too much sense, it's better to spend and waste billions of dollars on useless go nowhere bullet trains, ugh.
We have thousands of acres of reservoir sites throughout CA which most are actually donated by multi generation farmers/ranchers. Problem is , the Government will not allow it, they want it this way, it's all about $ & control
How about not screwing with the weather. Let's see if that doesn't straighten our little global warming problem.
ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL..MUCH
Only things Americans care about is if they can go use their jet sky or boat
Unfortunately Lake Mead does gets that party lake atmosphere being next to Las Vegas. I assure you though, for every one of "them", there is another adamant hiker/botanist/nature lover/conservationist/etc. The park is a HUGE place off the water... 😎
Cloud seeding or El Nino?
Why do you put this same post on all sorts of comment sections?
A combo perhaps...? That would be interesting. Many folks gave up on the El Nino talk at the start of the New Year. Things were dry and unseasonably warm. Maybe it's just late?
@@mojo.adventures ah I think I'm confused I guess. I thought from one of your earlier videos this year you said El Nino was a phenomenon that lasted for a few years. I guess its no longer affecting us? I just purchased a house in the valley so I'm trying to learn as much as I can about this region. Thank you for all the work you do to inform us all on lake mead. - EDIT, there is a weather channel I follow as well that has been showing the effects of El Nino and that it was going to create a few years of "extra moisture in the south west". All this rain in the valley I thought was the result. Not just here, there's been a lot more precipitation in the west this year it seems. So I don't know if I'm not sure if the extra rain fall here is unique to Vegas.
@@dorenandsara are you sure you commented on the right post? You're claiming I write, "cloud seeding or El Nino?" on all sorts of comment sections?
Pronounce Shasta better. It’s not Shosta, or whatever it is you’re saying.
You mean the reservoir isn't sponsored by the cola company? Now I see where I went wrong...
The Book of Daniel talks about this. The Book of Enoch explains everything about the Endtimes. I live right next to a cloud seeder. Literally right outside my window viewing. Every single storm I see on the news, I can see it coming. I think up north (Canada) has one that meets up with ours and gains power by the time it's destroying things in the south and east. I've recorded many pre-storm clouds. I'm worried about people living in places downstream of the Dams, because of what the books say. Enoch returned in 2017, The Tribulations are almost over. 2nd Enoch 20:3 for anyone who wants to seek truth in The Most High.
HAARP
Isn't that in Alaska? I've read about that in the past
@@mojo.adventures Yes and it covers the entire western USA
Stop chemical trails
You’ve never looked on the internet when you see those planes and see that they’re transcontinental flights huh?
Yes , pay Farmers to Stop Growing Food . Food is Too Cheap in America Thumbs Down .
Love the government funded cloud seeding yet these freakin developers don’t give a rats arse about water supply. Even suggesting more “High dollar” residential development is ridiculous. It will only cause more water shortages . They need to provide birth control to decrease population. The heck with developers profits. They need a building moratorium like in Coastal San Luis Obispo where you have to wait 15 years for a water meter at a cost of $350,000 for each water meter. I do not know what Las Vegas and other desert regions ask for each water meter but they need to increase cost like San Luis which is not a desert.
You're a Commi. You know that. Right!? Residential developments don't cause water shortage. Letting illegals invade this country and millions more illegal water users cause water shortage!
I've heard mixed things about the water district here, but I can say that at least Vegas has had a good reclamation system in place for about 50 years now. Conservation seems to be going good as a whole. The running counterpoint to stopping development is that they can't slow or halt construction in Las Vegas because that IS the economy here, and because there aren't enough "affordable" houses, so they need more. It usually just ends up being lip service though. Most locals and lower/middle class can't even afford these houses and developments they are building now. Heck... most can't even afford to rent.
You sound pure evil. Pray 4 u
You said in your video that CA still has water issues but CA is doing many very good things in terms of water. You claimed there is no new storage, which is true short term, but fails to recognize the good efforts currently being made to expand CA reservoir capacity. CA is now building the Sites Reservoir which is a 3.9 billion dollar project to capture excess water in years with high flows then release it back into the rivers in bad water years. It won’t open till 2030 but it is funded and in the works. So that is huge progress by CA. Also, CA agreed to a 10% cut in its Colorado Water use/rights through 2026. Thank you? Your focus is narrow and I feel as a CA resident hostile to CA. You forget that CA has no salmon fishing allowed statewide largely to droughts decimating the fish populations. The state is doing a lot to keep the rivers flowing and cold for the fish while also trying to save water for droughts. The folks who run the water are well educated engineers and scientists not online influencers. CA has nearly 40 million residents and a huge agriculture industry so it needs a lot of water but it also is being a good neighbor to the other western states by taking less water than it rightfully could by long standing agreements. For that you bash CA in your video. No good deed goes unpunished. Tired of the CA bashing. Really lame and uncalled for.
I can definitely see how you'd feel that way if you just watched this video 👍 I can assure you if you go back through all the updates and podcasts, I give my fair share of flak to every state and area I see issues in. Las Vegas too. Arizona was getting a lot of focus for a while late last year with the alfalfa exporting. You have a lot of good points in your response. The Sites project is like the Cal DWR's version of the high speed rail. Talked about and funded and talked about and never built. I'll believe it when I see water IN a reservoir, or a desal plant like Santa Barbara has. I enjoy reading through everything I can on the issue, including your response, so thank you for commenting. After taking everything into consideration up and down the river though, many (including myself) agree that California is the elephant in the room when it comes to water waste and un-accountability. This could just simply be due to the math... more use = more waste, and California uses by far the most Colorado River water. If you look into it closer though, a lot of it is just plain neglect and misuse. Take a look at LA... they still don't have a water reclamation system in place for the city. Something Las Vegas has had for around half a century. Yet LA uses far more water. Another example is Lake Hodges Dam outside San Diego, which has to be keep no higher than 30% full to keep the dam from failing. They "patch" it every year but have never fixed it. Now apparently San Diego has lost access to that water. Guess where else San Diego gets water when needed? I am not hostile towards CA or any residents of CA at all, much the opposite. I am hostile towards poor leadership and cronyism when it comes to our resources. Like I said in the video... it's going to take all users working together. If not, California will unwillingly cut themselves off once Hoover Dam reaches deadpool, while Las Vegas and sources upstream will still have water. That is just cold hard math. I am hoping by your response that I shake even more people awake so that we don't ever have to prepare for that scenario. Even if that means people don't like me for it!
@@mojo.adventures Lake Hodges is not safe, is a very small reservoir and will cost $300 million to fix. Some estimates say as much as $1 billion. That is going to cost water users in San Diego County much more on their water bills per month for no new additional water storage. Decades of delayed infrastructure investments now being addressed. They will regret giving 10% of their Colorado River water rights away to ungrateful neighboring state residents as they have to pay much more for water in coming years. You bash CA in a good water year? Wait till the droughts return and CA residents will fully assert it’s long standing water rights to Colorado River water to the detriment of other states. No regrets either when that day comes as you all were rude. CA did right by its neighbors is my point. You single it out as mismanaged and wasting. Lame.
I saw no hostility, truth is what is needed. In a way the water California does release shoul also be sent back to Owen’s Valley where Los Angeles has stolen the water rights leaving the area parched. But again infuse aquifers with overflow and mandate a building moratorium.
@@beekeepermariadelgado6806 It is true LA took water from Owens Valley and many movies have been made on that topic. Not exactly current events. Not sure how that in state taking of water impacted any other state either? Pretty sure the folks in CA don’t mock Utah if SLC takes more water to serve its large population compared to rural parts of the state. True too at a higher level view is our ancestors took all the land in the US from the Native Americans. You got any thoughts on fixing that injustice? No legitimate state or federal water rights at all for any state if we go there. Returning to ground level, this channel makes claims about CA water management that I find to be very biased. He claims LA has no “water reclamation” while Las Vegas does. I just checked online and LA has 4 water reclamation facilities serving 3.8 million people. So what exactly is he talking about? Far as I can tell he lied right there in his reply. Second, all of Southern California has 23 million people in it. LA alone has 3.8 million. He compares that huge population to Las Vegas with just 656,000 people. That comparison is pathetic. CA is going to use more water legitimately, even if it does everything right, because it has far more people. That many people also means both wealth to give it economic and political clout. That elephant in the room as he called CA should not be pissed off is my reply. The CA public is being kind and a good neighbor now by giving up 10% of its water rights to the Colorado River water for a few years but may not be kind in the future. And why should CA continue to be kind if they are mocked online by their neighbors for doing good by them? CA did not have to and had every legal right to keep 100% of their water rights. Lastly, the guy making these videos seems to be mad at CA leadership on water and as far as I can see Governor Newsom has done many good things to fix the state’s water system from repairing Lake Oroville’s spillway to supporting the Sites Reservoir, and now a tunnel from the delta to So Cal is being considered. CA is also removing dams on the Klamath River to please the native tribes and restore salmon habitat. In my city of Roseville CA we replenish the underground aquifers in water rich years and bank that for drought years. People are tearing out their lawns to help and be more water efficient. You all act like CA is totally against all water storage and conservation and that is not true at all. We literally have a dam in Yosemite National Park (Hetch Hetchy). That’s going pretty far to capture water for human use. This channel is lame and very slanted.
Hetch Hetchy for Frisco. Worst man made disaster ever made.
How is not growing food to eat a positive? You people out there are looney!
Conservation today means more water in future years.
Perhaps looking in the mirror will explain looney since you do not live out here. There are crops that use too much water and there is California who cannot store enough water and have to take from the Colorado. We need food and water but if California could store more of their water that gets released into the Pacific then Lakes Mead and Powell would have more water to hold. The subject is a lot more complicated then you realize.
You must be a liberal. I can tell by your well informed, educated take.
@@LaughterIsDeadly Lol, I was thinking the same thing.
How is commenting on a situation you clearly know nothing about a positive? For instance, did you know that one family of farmers in the Imperial Valley, California, uses more water than the entire Las Vegas Valley (according to the Investigative Reporting nonprofit ProPublica)? Or that almond farms in CA use roughly the same amount of water as the total indoor water use in California. This is unsustainable. Almonds are a luxury and export crop; approximately 70% of CA's crop is shipped abroad for the express benefit of a handful of industrial-scale growers and hedge funds. Meanwhile, the entire southeast US is under severe water restrictions with heavy fines for non-compliance. That is how "growing food to eat" can be a negative.
this video is BS you must be representing dpw
I wish I had a government gig again... that sweet taxpayer cheese is certainly more reliable than this video editing stuff. Are they hiring?🤔
Stop the stupid word atmospheric River is such a made up word just say storms
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I even put chapters in there... and you still couldn't find the info?🤣
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