Lake Mead UPDATE March 2023 Record Rain/Snow and Drought Water Level Effects CA

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Welcome back Colorado River Watchers! In this spring water level report, we’ll look into the record rain and snow that plummeted the west since the start of the year. We’ll also look at its impact (or lack thereof) on reservoir levels. In addition we’re going to discover when Lake Mead usually sees its highest water level each year, so we can calculate whether the floods and snowpack might bring any drought relief to the reservoir before summer.
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  • **SPECIAL RECOGNITION TO OUR SUPERTHANKS: Jack Person and TheCutAway05. Thank you for helping us to create more content!** **IMPORTANT UPDATES/CORRECTIONS** #1 - Santa Barbara DOES NOT use the Colorado River water! Los Angeles & San Diego rely on the Colorado River supply once the SWP is drained. Thank you to commenter "Donna Jordan" for the correction!👍 I will address this in a future update. If you're interested in learning more, read below: Santa Barbara is lower in seniority to LA/SD for receiving the SWP water supply, and only entitled to around some 32% of the water in Lake Cachuma shown in the video. California’s major urban centers- LA and the Bay Area (San Francisco) lack sufficient groundwater and other local resources to support their large populations, so water must be imported from other portions of the state. These cities are the "hotspots" of residential water consumption so to say, and are depleting the SWP and Colorado River respectively. San Francisco Bay Area imports upwards of 65% of its water through the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct in Yosemite. Los Angeles uses both the SWP water and the Colorado river supply. On the other hand, Santa Barbara is very water conscious compared to the surrounding area, and re-commissioned the Charles E. Meyer desalination plant for the city. The plant produces 3 million gallons of drinking water per day, equivalent to about 30 percent of the City’s demand. Santa Barbara also uses several sources of water throughout different parts of the district, including the SWP supply, Lake Cachuma allotment, and ground water sources. Santa Barbara is in many ways a blueprint that other southern coastal cities should be following. THANK YOU TO ALL OUR VIEWERS FOR YOUR COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS! 💧✌

    @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
    • Santa Barbara historically very mindful of water usage..I'm from Pasadena and Santa Barbara...with S.B. being well aware of water scarcity...and it's residents adapt to these realities

      @williamcaspers7087@williamcaspers7087 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you for the correction. Not sure why you singled out tiny Santa Barbara. It uses NO COLORADO RIVER WATER. Through most of its history, Santa Barbara has historically been water self sufficient until a drought in 1991 caused it to subscribe to the State Water Project as a backup. Even now it primarily relies upon a combination of local water sources: streams and reservoirs, groundwater, ocean desalinization, and recycled water. While Lake Cachuma is a major resource, there are actually 3 reservoirs that supply Santa Barbara. Otherwise, thanks for your thoughtful report.

      @CAsawSTUD@CAsawSTUD Жыл бұрын
    • Theww🤗 does diiwns

      @garygustaveson7457@garygustaveson7457 Жыл бұрын
    • San Francisco Bay Area continues to build high density residential units.

      @tzyijiang9884@tzyijiang988411 ай бұрын
    • 😮

      @kevinduffy80@kevinduffy8011 ай бұрын
  • I have lived in Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, and Arizona. In every state I have read and heard stories of how and why California needs to take water from each of those states to satisfy their needs. There doesn't seem to be any concern of the needs in the states that California seems to think they have rights to. The time has come long ago for California to start massive desalination projects. They always cry that it costs too much. The rest of us are saying; too bad, California needs to stop relying on everybody else to support them.

    @ednopp7818@ednopp7818 Жыл бұрын
    • I am on the conservation side of the discussion. Every time you eat 1 almond remember that it took 1 gallon of water to produce, and 1 walnut 5 gallons! More then 70% of California's water use goes to agriculture. This is where the answer needs to be derived from. California touts its ranking of 5th in world GDP at a huge cost to the western region! The mainstream person now never looks beyond a headline and look deeper into the issue creating the problem. That is the real threat and allows politicians to manipulate the narrative.....

      @smketr9111@smketr9111 Жыл бұрын
    • California pays all the bills for the USA so shut up or we won't give you your allowance this week

      @ocnble@ocnble Жыл бұрын
    • Cal AG thru out the state takes a lot of water. I don't know if rice farmers in Sac Valley use Lake Mead water. Better ways to water crops needs to be utilized. Golf courses are also SO unnecessary in a drought. Palm Springs area has far too many golf courses. 130!! Shocking!!

      @peacenow4456@peacenow4456 Жыл бұрын
    • How does water from Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Wyoming get to California?

      @susanlovesjava4961@susanlovesjava4961 Жыл бұрын
    • California also provides around 70% of all fresh fruits and vegetables. No one complains then.

      @val-xo7ud@val-xo7ud Жыл бұрын
  • Agree 100% it breaks my heart to see all the water go into the ocean.

    @aloha4ever1@aloha4ever1 Жыл бұрын
    • @@bd2722 no it wouldn't, lol

      @lilcourtny08@lilcourtny08 Жыл бұрын
    • @B D ..🤡🎪 🤪 😜 🤪 😁 🤣 😂

      @lilblackduc7312@lilblackduc7312 Жыл бұрын
    • @@lilcourtny08 B D sounds like a very knowledgeable C(lie)mate Change Cult activist/zealot/minion...(sarcasm)

      @lilblackduc7312@lilblackduc7312 Жыл бұрын
    • The water headed back to the ocean is because they have no choice but to make room for the massive spring melt, we are likely going to see some serious flooding in CA in a month or two.

      @Tatiacha@Tatiacha Жыл бұрын
    • boo hoo

      @rd264@rd264 Жыл бұрын
  • I really appreciate this video. It answers so many questions I have had. You have driven home the true root of the problem - usage!

    @davidkraft3690@davidkraft369011 ай бұрын
    • Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much for dropping in to leave a comment we appreciate it 👍

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures11 ай бұрын
  • Somehow I missed this video. I always look forward to your updates.

    @dawnr9158@dawnr915811 ай бұрын
    • The algorithm was weird starting off the year, we missed D-Tech, Trooper, and SCO stuff it just never got recommended unless you go and check. I think everyone has been busy as heck too w/ life & working etc I know we haven't had much time to create only a few things a month

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures11 ай бұрын
  • All of that rain and snow is a blessing from God to keep us all agoin

    @homes8362@homes8362 Жыл бұрын
    • So was it a blessing for the drought 2

      @patricklerch6802@patricklerch6802 Жыл бұрын
  • Hi ya, from Baja California! You knocked it out of the ball park again. So well done, and gives the facts so clearly. The recent gift from the skies rushed right back into the ocean here in Baja. Even the state of California had a moment of clarity when they watched so much of the precious liquid lost to the sea. Just wanted to let you know we made the front page of the Gringo Gazette. I'll send you the link when we get it up on the webpage. Keep on keeping on!

    @bodhimartina6985@bodhimartina6985 Жыл бұрын
    • Welcome back Martina! Just getting through some of these comments now. Thanks for the emails! I'll get back with you soon there 👍

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for sharing.

    @louisroman7134@louisroman7134 Жыл бұрын
  • As a Nevadan, I appreciate you sharing this information, and where the Colorado River water is really used. I get "Las Vegas is too big", "Las Vegas is draining the lake" all the time. We use less than 2% of the allotment while California and Mexico use over 40%. Factor in the uses, and you'll quickly see that agriculture is the top user of the river water, not people. Thank you again for sharing this story. At least at dead pool, Nevada will still have river water, if not lake water.

    @DavidLangford92@DavidLangford92 Жыл бұрын
    • "Agriculture is the top user of river water, not people". Oh it's people, cuz we like our broccoli and lettuce.

      @650gringo@650gringo Жыл бұрын
    • Interestingly enough.. there is a solution.. hydroponics (and aeroponics). Uses a lot less water.. and individual could grow their own food right at home. Problem is.. knowing how to keep it going and how to start.. and being willing to not be lazy and actually attend to the growing needs. It's oddly not very hard.. and saves money compared to buying at the grocery store.

      @b3owu1f@b3owu1f Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you David for pointing this out and being informed on the issue! 👍 Yes I see this is a common talking point from people who are new to the river compact from other regions. #1 myth is Las Vegas uses all the water in the desert, #2 is we need the Imperial Valley alfalfa and almonds to feed the country. These are surely the signs of people that haven't looked very deep into the situation...

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
    • Agriculture is the people dorfuss

      @mikrof467@mikrof467 Жыл бұрын
    • I grew up in Nevada but left in 1968. My dad still lives in BC. You’re not exactly accurate in your statement. Lake Meads water was divided up back in the 40s. 7 states were designated recipients of Meads water California, Nevada and Utah I believe got half of the water and Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming got the other half. So what ever percentage they get it a percentage of their half and not the whole amount. Because Las Vegas does extremely well at preserving and recycling waste the get credits for treated waters they return to the lake.

      @TomBTerrific@TomBTerrific Жыл бұрын
  • When Phoenix expanded the Lake Pleasant dam back in the 1990’s, we had 4 days in a row steady rain. The dam filled to capacity. Going from less than 3,000 acres of water to just over 11,000 acres. So yes, a weather event can make a difference.

    @kristopherdetar4346@kristopherdetar4346 Жыл бұрын
    • True, except Lake Mead is 26,000,000 acre feet!

      @dundonrl@dundonrl Жыл бұрын
    • And a good sturdy dam helps as well!

      @franciecody4433@franciecody4433 Жыл бұрын
    • A weather event can "make a difference" only if you have the capacity to capture it and even then a single weather event will not solve the problem. The problem will only be solved when we have the ability to store the aggregate of weather events in a volume that exceeds the demand. That is the issue - a failure of capacity to keep up with growth.

      @JH-jx1hs@JH-jx1hs Жыл бұрын
    • I live in az as well..and you are correct..and to the guy saying..ya but it's bigger...ya and you have a million times as much water going to it...or could have that much, if cali wasn't mentally ill

      @alllstr30@alllstr30 Жыл бұрын
    • @@JH-jx1hs The real problem is building and expanding cities in areas that don't have adequate water to support them!

      @bmorg7244@bmorg7244 Жыл бұрын
  • Outstanding report

    @downundertruckerusa4733@downundertruckerusa4733 Жыл бұрын
  • I live in Northern California close to Shasta Lake. The lake is filling up nicely, which is wonderful. The rain and snow we have this year is a huge relieve. Snowed again in the upper elevations on Tuesday. While it's good to have the run off going into the lakes we need more rain to fill the aquifers underground and wells. The California water commission is scheduled to built a reservoir, Sykes Reservoir, in the mid Sacramento Valley for more water retention. The area it will be in is mostly orchards which, of course need the water. Thank you for a great article.

    @janiceheld6594@janiceheld6594 Жыл бұрын
    • YOU need FEWER people. Send them back to Mexico.

      @alangriggs4420@alangriggs4420 Жыл бұрын
  • Staying in my prayers! 😔 😢

    @donaldroyer4618@donaldroyer461811 ай бұрын
  • We need a really good monsoon season after a good winter. We are halfway there!!!!

    @blake86303@blake86303 Жыл бұрын
  • Awesome video! Poor planning, corruption, and mismanagement have finally caught up with everyone responsible.

    @superb63amg94@superb63amg94 Жыл бұрын
    • ...dam it.....

      @wokewokerman5280@wokewokerman5280 Жыл бұрын
    • ALSO EVERY BODY NOT RESPONCEABLE LOVE THE AMMMEEERRRIIICCCAAANNN DREAM

      @raypitts4880@raypitts4880 Жыл бұрын
    • @@raypitts4880 Move to Chhhiiiiiiinnnnnaaa.

      @x00p3@x00p3 Жыл бұрын
    • TO MANY PEOPLE MOVING TO AZ, NV, UTAH AND CA.

      @domcizek@domcizek Жыл бұрын
    • @@domcizek millions of illegals, since Biden took office more than a city the size of Houston have illegally moved in, along with a million legal immigrants per year. Incompetence in government is the real pandemic...

      @wokewokerman5280@wokewokerman5280 Жыл бұрын
  • thank God for fixing your problems

    @axercst@axercst Жыл бұрын
  • I live in California and do have water supply concern as we faced many years of droughts in the past. Thanks for doing this video. I learned that California gets water from many lakes (Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Lake Havasu, Lake Mohave). California needs to do much much more to capture more water, thus allows the lakes to replenish over time.

    @keinguye@keinguye Жыл бұрын
    • When you vote the same way and expect different results is laughable

      @Sc-jf3yk@Sc-jf3yk Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you for stopping bye and giving a comment👍 We definitely need everyone on board from Wyoming to California! Every state has it's own issues (you can see some in previous episodes) and I applaud you for trying to get informed on the issue just like we are. Every episode, I myself learn a bunch of new details on the history of the water and usage... I literally didn't know about any of this stuff a year or two ago!

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
    • Calif has always confiscated water from other States cause they are greedy! The People in charge are STUPID and don’t concern themselves with consequences, hate to say it, that’s gonna end when they get cut off!

      @raymondpetracca6208@raymondpetracca6208 Жыл бұрын
    • Keith, So. Cal sucks water from those lakes and from the water from Nor Cal as well . Sad

      @jimzimmerman5288@jimzimmerman5288 Жыл бұрын
    • California likes to mooch off of other states. 🤦🏻‍♂️

      @metalrocker627@metalrocker627 Жыл бұрын
  • I spent a few years in California, and I can tell you from experience, the bureaucrat's there are way too self-absorbed in their own agenda to make any useful changes in water usage.

    @donscheid97@donscheid97 Жыл бұрын
    • I agree. More concerned with physical looks then the important values in life.

      @oanna1221@oanna1221 Жыл бұрын
  • So cool, thanks.

    @domingodeanda6113@domingodeanda6113 Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you!!

    @eddiemorales5722@eddiemorales5722 Жыл бұрын
    • thanks for watching! ✌️

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
  • Saw your picture in your Community page of snowcapped mountains in Vegas. I happened upon German in Venice you tube channel today and saw the snowcapped mountains behind Los Angeles. That's where I saw your reply and went to your channel here to see Vegas snow. Absolutely beautiful! Thanks, Melaney from SoCal (a native). Oh, and I subscribed to his and your channels.

    @melaneymattson3733@melaneymattson3733 Жыл бұрын
    • Awesome ✌️ Thank you for visiting and subscribing! We love his channel also... Venice was one of our favorite beaches used to visit there all the time and Santa Monica. Which is funny because many from Southern CA come to visit Vegas for their vacations, we just all swap places. His historic comparison photos standing in front of landmarks is what inspired our "before and after" lake level videos. He does a great job with those old photos. We're also glad to have as many people onboard with the drought situation and river conservation as possible! This specific video may come off as critical to CA, but I assure you we're all in the water situation together and if you look through some of our older videos we examine the drought and river use everywhere from Colorado to Mexico. So a special thank you for watching this specific update! We also do "adventure episodes" to keep things light around here 😎

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
  • I found your channel early last year. I like your civic approach to the water management process. I live in greater Waterbury Ct, which has an established reputation in the water business.... Man is by nature an inventor. Smart and stupid at the same time. ....Awareness is the vital ingredient. Careful consumption and teamwork are vital. We could all use some luck at a time like this. Thanks again for what you do!

    @stephenhenion8304@stephenhenion8304 Жыл бұрын
    • Thanks for supporting the channel early on all the way from CT! 👍 We're just getting started 'round here, trying to improve the research and editing with every video. You are spot on with all that... especially "careful consumption" and "teamwork", neither of which are occuring in all the basin states at this time. Instead it seems to be turning into a water fight! I think all these relentless atmospheric rivers in the southwest (3 more on the way today) is just the "luck" we needed. Will we take advantage of it or waste it away again?

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
  • thanks for keeping an eye on things.

    @tkarchesy@tkarchesy Жыл бұрын
  • Another fantastic report! I'll be sharing to all my Network

    @TheDesertSailor@TheDesertSailor Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you Sailor😎appreciate the support!

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
  • We really need the ability to transfer water both ways. Rather than taking water from Lake Mead we need ways to transfer excess water during "High Rainy Season" areas (like now) back into the lake. Currently the California Delta is at flood stage and this clean pure water is going out to the Ocean through the Golden Gate Bridge. We are already shipping water from the California Delta to Southern California. It is possible to increase this transfer with additional infrastructure through the California Aqueduct we already have in use. This would bring more water to the end point of the The Colorado River Aqueduct. With additional infrastructure we reverse the direction so that this excess water helps fill the enormous Lake Mead. California's problem is that it does not have the Lake/reservoir capacity to store this water to be saved for the dry seasons.

    @gregmoore3420@gregmoore3420 Жыл бұрын
    • FABULOUS IDEA!! All the colleges and Univs need to work on problem w students to get them excited to do this very thing and propose this to Gov. Newsom.

      @peacenow4456@peacenow4456 Жыл бұрын
    • But Greg, how would politicians be able to skim money off of a plan like you are mentioning. Nancy needs to have her inside deals. I fully agree that the wasted water should be able to be harvested back to the lake but the "officials" should have been doing something like this many years ago. Poor management, poor science, where is the "follow the science" crowd it's a shame that the people we trust to handle things like this are actually the worst people to allow to do it.

      @waltmezynski8493@waltmezynski849311 ай бұрын
  • Thanks!

    @TheCutaway05@TheCutaway05 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you we appreciate the support! I will list superthanks contributors in the credits next update as a special "thank you" so stay tuned! 👍

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
  • I live in central NY state and we are so lucky to have a unexhaustable supply of surface and ground water.

    @davidzinn3073@davidzinn3073 Жыл бұрын
    • we live in western ny state know the FEELING !!!

      @kstipp6930@kstipp6930 Жыл бұрын
    • Same in the Midwest. Clean, clear drinking water at 200 feet. My well is down to 400, but mainly to prevent loss when the water table fluctuates. Only 4 other farmers have deep wells in a 5 mile radius.

      @mda1501@mda1501 Жыл бұрын
    • Upstate New York is a beautiful area. Too bad you're tied to that anchor in the south.

      @tomm7505@tomm7505 Жыл бұрын
  • Also the growth in the Las Vegas Area over the last 20 years, has to be considered. Every new house, apartment, condo, casino, pool, hotel, etc... is another straw into Lake Mead and the surrounding aquifers.

    @jamessieker1712@jamessieker1712 Жыл бұрын
    • California is the real culprit sucking mead dry.

      @MotoAtheist@MotoAtheist Жыл бұрын
    • because of water reclamation NV is under utilizing.. check the specs. at only 18% (pretty sure) of total allocation, LV area is the least impact on the system . look to the almond growers instead

      @edevans4210@edevans4210 Жыл бұрын
    • James: last October i sent a detailed plan to correct the problem with the lake mead/Colorado river to the biggest newspaper in the 7 states taking water from the Colorado river ! To date i don’t see a dammed thing being done to implement my plan! (My plan takes greed [which ain’t going away] into consideration! If you or anyone else wants a copy of my plan call me!)

      @morrisparrish76@morrisparrish76 Жыл бұрын
    • Yeah. It’s insane that they just keep developing in Vegas. What are they thinking? JK. They’re not.

      @msannthrope1863@msannthrope1863 Жыл бұрын
    • I lived in Las Vegas for 20 years only because I liked the weather. But, it was a hand to mouth existence. I finally moved to a conservative state and now own a house and property which I could never afford in Vegas. I don't understand why anyone would want to live amongst all the crime, poverty, and greed in Vegas when there are better, safer, and more affordable places to live. I've never been back to Vegas, but, people there tell me it's worse than ever.

      @libertyjustice2703@libertyjustice2703 Жыл бұрын
  • Well done video! Thank you.

    @robhay57@robhay57 Жыл бұрын
  • Outstanding video. The sources, the explanations, the context. Thank you for this.

    @brianschwab3135@brianschwab3135 Жыл бұрын
  • It's working out really well on the demand side. 1K people a day are leaving CA for states like TX, TN and Florida. Myself included. That'll help.

    @outabeat@outabeat Жыл бұрын
    • Just saw a report by the Nevada DMV saying since 2020 nearly 50% of all new residents to the state are from CA. I don't blame people... it's becoming unlivable there. Soon it will only be the uber rich and the street people. So sad to see such a beautiful state mismanaged into oblivion...

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
    • Bye Felicia

      @BixbyConsequence@BixbyConsequence Жыл бұрын
    • @@BixbyConsequence Bye... Be sure to give the tweakers, hypes and the homeless reparations.

      @outabeat@outabeat Жыл бұрын
    • @@outabeat "hypes"?

      @BixbyConsequence@BixbyConsequence Жыл бұрын
    • @@BixbyConsequence heroin addicts.. They're known as hypes in the biz.

      @outabeat@outabeat Жыл бұрын
  • I lived in Vegas from 95-02. Now live in the PNW and its amazing to see how much Vegas has grown and the lake has shrunk since then. Just, wow.

    @thejaxx5@thejaxx5 Жыл бұрын
    • It is all because of the city growth - not climate like idiot liberals claim

      @williamrandall3786@williamrandall3786 Жыл бұрын
    • vegas has UNDER GROUND WATER SUPPLY

      @JOHNHENRYHOLLIDAY-rl5mi@JOHNHENRYHOLLIDAY-rl5mi Жыл бұрын
    • @@JOHNHENRYHOLLIDAY-rl5mi and where do you think that underground supply refills from? Guess it's just magic, and doesn't get it from seepage from the only major system that flows through there. Don't be obtuse. Things like this are just proof the education system has completely failed.

      @zarroth@zarroth Жыл бұрын
    • @@JOHNHENRYHOLLIDAY-rl5mi barely

      @mediaxpuppet@mediaxpuppet Жыл бұрын
    • @@mediaxpuppet barely ? 😂 we have more water under then we do above ground.we (am company I worked for ) drilled down and taped into the water . Was deemed we couldn’t touch it bc of some rare fishes down there .there is plenty of water for living problem refuse to claim it

      @racingjunk7024@racingjunk7024 Жыл бұрын
  • (Not so) Funny Story-- I was watching the 1964 Elvis movie "Viva Las Vegas" last year. A random scene briefly showed Hoover Dam and the CO River's water level. I was so stunned at its depth -- it must've been an add'l 100 feet deeper! -- that I actually paused the scene and grabbed my smartphone to take a picture! I still have it in my pic gallery as a point of reference whenever I speak to fellow Arizonans. Living here in Gilbert, my wife & I are so deliberate in our home & property's water consumption, it's become a preoccupation with me. Yet my fear is that far too many fellow residents here in the Valley are not acting as responsibly. Please keep us updated, and THANK YOU VERY MUCH for creating this channel! 💦

    @Marc-js8rx@Marc-js8rx Жыл бұрын
  • We had snow in the 1980s when we lived in Las Vegas. Our little daughter had gotten-up, looked out the window and came running into the living room, shouting, "It nowing! It nowing!". She could pronounce "S" yet. Praying you get several inches rain in the next several weeks.

    @Absaalookemensch@Absaalookemensch Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for making this video. The news doesn’t always cover weather this far away from the areas down-river.

    @KingfisherTalkingPictures@KingfisherTalkingPictures Жыл бұрын
  • Up stream here in Northern Utah, we've been getting storm after storm so it may take months to show through Lake Powell and into Mead but we need a few years like this to fully solve it imo. This is a great start for sure but I think it needs to continue to be safe.

    @kindnuguz@kindnuguz Жыл бұрын
    • None of the water in northern Utah will reach the green or colorado

      @grasm03@grasm03 Жыл бұрын
    • The video says it's not a supply problem but an overuse problem.

      @robertdouglas8895@robertdouglas8895 Жыл бұрын
    • Today, I have TWO choices, to make [A] Psychological slaughter ,or [B] TOUCHLESS TORTURE I choose Bravo

      @majcorbin@majcorbin Жыл бұрын
    • @@robertdouglas8895 Kinda like our national budget. Not a supply problem of money, just an overuse problem.

      @Ehedquist@Ehedquist Жыл бұрын
    • @@Ehedquist Simple solution: just hire 87,000 more IRS agents with guns.

      @robertdouglas8895@robertdouglas8895 Жыл бұрын
  • Well done and easy to understand video, thank you so much.

    @brianknecht7119@brianknecht7119 Жыл бұрын
  • well done. appreciate the updates!

    @greggregg4852@greggregg4852 Жыл бұрын
  • Well done, nice update👍🏻👍🏻I see the Lake Mead report is already showing the drop again.

    @Time2getgoin@Time2getgoin Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you! Enjoyed your Lake Mead update also👍 Yep you're right the drop started, the curve is already there. Unless the USBR changes it's operations drastically it's headed down from here from what I can see...

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
  • From a farming family that relies on release from Cachuma to replenish our main wells, and agree with your analysis. The state as a whole is still under a water deficit that isn't going to improve until we reform urban and ag use on a major scale.

    @chriscooper654@chriscooper654 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you for stopping by! Great to hear the perspective of an AG user as well 👍 It seems the entire region around Cachuma could be a lot more resource independent if LA / SD and the Imperial Valley AG would stop taking so much water from both the SWP and Colorado River supply. In my opinion, the real reform has to start there. I have heard from other residents in Northern CA who have been tracking the water situation over the years and have much more experience with this issue. Many are frustrated with the amount of resources the southern cities demand from other regions, and it has only gotten worse...

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
    • @@mojo.adventures I read that Cachuma may be "paying Back" on the SWP it received during the drought with this newly acquired wealth of rain water this winter. The problem is that since the beginning of Los Angeles population growth, LA has been monopolizing the Sierra snow melt from both the western and eastern Sierra melts, heck they take almost 80% from the Owens valley alone, and now resorts to the Colorado river to fill the added demand. Cachuma should be tapping into the So.Sierra/Kern/LA aqueduct but instead have to outsource when Cachuma runs dry. I think the distribution system needs to be updated.

      @artsilva@artsilva Жыл бұрын
    • I appreciate your perspective. Real reform is needed to change the old rules written to benefit one state. But yes you are correct also.

      @tbear68-@tbear68- Жыл бұрын
    • Here is an idea , I had for awhile, the first part of this is humorous, however, after a quick chuckle, within and below is a good idea. First for the chuckle. If the caring residents of California formed, a chain line passing and dumping a cup of water at a time - from the snows and floods of California into , lake mead , it would be on its way to being filled , 😅lol😅 It would be great if A system to vacuum the flood water up and also u { Utilize ice melter dump trucks which they use in the north east, } with national guard tractor trailer tankers forming a relay system, moving the tankers through states to finally dump it into lake Mead - this somehow should be implemented/- and utilized, including the treatment, all the while using and utilizing the Army Corps of Engineers for the concepts and implementation of building a treatment plant near where the water would be pumped into these waters. This could be a logistical exercise and practice for military/ national guard , if not for this event but for others like this , as flooding always happens, from the Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida areas , this could be implemented In fact , They do need to get rid of these flooding waters and snows from their streets , and property in California sterilizing it & / properly treating before placing it into Mead , Powell - and Colorado river - don’t waste these record snow falls and rains which are causing flooding. I am not articulate enough to present this concept or idea to Congress, military, or politicians, and only wish some whom reads this , passes it along It’s a way of investing in this countries resources.

      @michaelmike5709@michaelmike5709 Жыл бұрын
    • @@tbear68- Here is an idea , I had for awhile, the first part of this is humorous, however, after a quick chuckle, within and below is a good idea. First for the chuckle. If the caring residents of California formed, a chain line passing and dumping a cup of water at a time - from the snows and floods of California into , lake mead , it would be on its way to being filled , 😅lol😅 It would be great if A system to vacuum the flood water up and also u { Utilize ice melter dump trucks which they use in the north east, } with national guard tractor trailer tankers then form a relay system, moving the tankers through states to finally dump it into lake Mead - this somehow should be implemented/- and utilized, including the treatment, all the while using and utilizing the Army Corps of Engineers for the concepts and implementation of building a treatment plant near where the water would be pumped into these waters. This could be a logistical exercise and practice for military/ national guard , if not for this event but for others like this , as flooding always happens, from the Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida areas , this could be implemented In fact , They do need to get rid of these flooding waters and snows from their streets , and property in California sterilizing it & / properly treating before placing it into Mead , Powell - and Colorado river - don’t waste these record snow falls and rains which are causing flooding. I am not articulate enough to present this concept or idea to Congress, military, or politicians, and only wish some whom reads this , passes it along It’s a way of investing in this countries resources.

      @michaelmike5709@michaelmike5709 Жыл бұрын
  • Prayers

    @erniegonzalez4732@erniegonzalez4732 Жыл бұрын
  • All that rain goes straight into ocean!

    @2115virgo13@2115virgo13 Жыл бұрын
  • I'm camping in Ehrenberg, Az. because of the California snow. Seems to be plenty of water flowing in the Colorado River down stream, plus the canals in Blythe, Calif. are running full.

    @SPak-rt2gb@SPak-rt2gb Жыл бұрын
  • I live on the East coast, but still find the water issues out west troubling. Thanks for your clear analyses.

    @beecee6211@beecee6211 Жыл бұрын
    • There are 40,000,000+ people relying on the water of one small river is the problem. (And that river flows through a desert)!

      @dundonrl@dundonrl Жыл бұрын
    • Not keeping up with the population explosion in the southwest. More water needs to be kept from runoff into the ocean in Cali. Cali takes the Lion share from the Colorado river. Robbing Arizona.

      @ubroberts5541@ubroberts5541 Жыл бұрын
  • Great video, your thoughts are great

    @davesitarski2310@davesitarski2310 Жыл бұрын
    • Glad you enjoyed it thank you for watching!

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
  • That was some VERY interesting data! Thanks for sharing.

    @bangswitch6587@bangswitch6587 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for the Video 😊 Keep up the good work!

    @internetbouncer7029@internetbouncer7029 Жыл бұрын
  • Great video

    @arpikaarekpinggerkali950@arpikaarekpinggerkali950 Жыл бұрын
    • Thanks for the visit! 👍

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
  • Over here in Cape Town, South Africa 4 years ago we almost ran out of water so since then we, when we shower stand in large basins to catch the water, the water to the toilets are turned off, so we use shower and bath water to flush the toilets. I use bio-degradable washing powder in my washing machine and this flows into my garden in the back yard. I also started a smart water veggie patch. We try to use every bit of water twice if we can. Unfortunately not everybody is doing this as the drought stopped.

    @etiennelouw9244@etiennelouw9244 Жыл бұрын
    • Hello, been following your challenge in SA, SoCA very similar weather cycle, although inverse calendar wise, wishing you rain, but no floods.

      @nuqwestr@nuqwestr Жыл бұрын
    • You do realize most Americans are stupid and can’t find our country on a map let alone South Africa. So using logic on them is a waste. I mean I agree with you and this it’s brilliant. I have been recycling for years without knowing it. I just thought it was how you do things. Anyway, if you look at almond farming in California…. You will see the biggest waste of water in the state .. look it up it interesting..

      @sailaway0013@sailaway0013 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment! That is very interesting to hear the methods you used when water became scarce there. We don't really think about how much we waste until we have to go without it. You know folks here are just the same, they won't take any water conservation methods until they are forced to, or there is no more water left. Now that we have so much rain and snow out west this year people will forgot about their waste.

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
    • GOOD IDEAS,

      @domcizek@domcizek Жыл бұрын
  • "it not a supply problem- It's a demand problem" no truer words were EVER spoken!

    @missourivalleyarms4264@missourivalleyarms4264 Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for your input to a major issue for all concerned. I still believe there is a will and a way in progress to amend our drought conditions, for Nevada and California. Native

    @frankborerjr4058@frankborerjr4058 Жыл бұрын
    • Absolutely! Thank you for watching. Going to do our best to track this issue and not going to let a bountiful year like this disappear with no explanation like in the past!

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
  • Very informative and love the presentation!!! Keep up the Great Job:) Absolutely top notch work!

    @tammyschulte5821@tammyschulte5821 Жыл бұрын
    • Wow thanks! Trying to improve a bit with each video 👍 Appreciate you watching again!

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
  • Hello Mojo; I see @1:27 a wonderful poster shot of Mother Nature's Womb opening up & giving back life giving breaking of the waters before birth of life. Beautiful shot. Love this video. Thank you.

    @jwilcox4726@jwilcox4726 Жыл бұрын
    • Ah I had to watch the timestamp to see what you mean... the spillway flowing! I would really like to see the ones at Hoover Dam spilling the stories I hear are incredible 😲 Thank you for watching!

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
  • I also thank you for this excellent video. I live in metro Phoenix, Arizona. Our huge city is growing right now by leaps and bounds. There is no incentive from either state or local authorities to avoid wasting water - and a LOT is wasted. Agriculture does indeed consume more water here than do residential neighborhoods, but I hate to think that we might soon lose our production of fresh vegetables. Everyone must do his/her part. Everyone.

    @manoscott2012@manoscott2012 Жыл бұрын
    • DO YOU HAVE ZEROSCAPE GROUNDS, LOW FLOW SHOWER AND TOILETS, IF NOT, THE CITY SHOULD PUSH FOR THAT AND EVEN GIVE THEM WAY FOR FREE

      @domcizek@domcizek Жыл бұрын
    • @@domcizek i agee with the xeriscape - and although reducing shower and toilet flows is good, the reality is that phoenix recycles all of its wastewater so this water is not lost (i.e., not a consumptive use). The bigger issue are all of the golf courses - that are consumptive uses.....and the lack of solar power that has a minor direct impact on water use but also on climate change.

      @pablok8444@pablok8444 Жыл бұрын
    • @@pablok8444 YES, THE FACT IS TO MANY PEOPLE MOVING THERE, THE FIRES IN CA AND NOW THE FLOODS MEANS MORE PEOPLE WILL MOVE TO NEV, AND AZ, NOT GOOD FOR THE WATER CONSUMPTION, I WAS IN ST GEORGE UTAH, THEY HAVE 10 GOLF COURSES IN THAT MIDDLE SIZE TOWN, THATS A LOT OF WATER

      @domcizek@domcizek Жыл бұрын
  • They need to build desalination plants all down the coast like we do in Aussie

    @ahoytheremate1954@ahoytheremate1954 Жыл бұрын
  • Every drop does truly count. Conservation is "always" the best of methods. Yet new source generation is at hand. Like desalination projects, retainment irrigation, aquifer replenishment and a paradigm of atmospheric capture.

    @rangerider4288@rangerider4288 Жыл бұрын
    • As well? The early stages of replenishment begin slowly.... as the "sponge" is filled firstly!

      @rangerider4288@rangerider4288 Жыл бұрын
    • Right on, thanks for the comment! 👍 Oh yeah #1 is conservation you nailed it! Like John Wesley Powell warned, the water should be staying in it's region and if there is no more water or it's overused, then there is no more water! None for development, for agriculture, for environmental causes, or ANYTHING. The party is over! Learn to live and adapt to the region or move. Believe you me, I've looked into all sorts of off-the-cuff water collection and energy generation methods to solve these problems. Desal needs energy, we need our best and brightest developing fusion. Find a way to recycle the waste brine in the emerging sodium ion battery technology. I'm just spitballing this stuff from watching youtube videos but I know there are people much smarter than me with a specialty in all this stuff... surely they can all get together and figure something out??

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
    • @@mojo.adventures ~ When the value of Water is duly perceived to be as valuable to Mankind as Crude OIL? It shall be piped in from the Artic circle even, and coast to coast.

      @rangerider4288@rangerider4288 Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you so much for giving us this information!! Poor leadership is DEFINITELY as reason things aren't getting better. California especially needs new reservoirs to capture water in very wet year like 2023. It's almost criminal to see that water just being released to the ocean (not just Lake Cachuma either).

    @jimdandy6452@jimdandy6452 Жыл бұрын
    • Is it poor leadership or corrupt leadership?

      @waltmezynski8493@waltmezynski849311 ай бұрын
    • @@waltmezynski8493 both. All that rain and snow and it still didn't bury Newsome. THAT would have done this entire country a favor.

      @UAL012@UAL01211 ай бұрын
  • I have visited Lake Mead and had tour of the Dam. So sorry for the issues you face. Hope you elect some responsible officials to save your beautiful and needed resource.

    @rollingmancave@rollingmancave Жыл бұрын
  • You know if we do not get it together meaning each and every person in the desert Arizona Nevada California Utah. It’s not gonna matter we will not be around to have to worry about it. Everybody is going to have to compromise, I’m an angler I love to fish, but I’m no longer going to be able to finish because there is not gonna be any water to fish at. That’s a small price to pay I’m looking at people that are going to be dying because there is no water. If we don’t get it together that’s what’s going to end up happening people are going to be dying and fighting over water. It is our most precious commodity that we have you cannot do anything without it. Let’s get it together please.

    @ralphwood4814@ralphwood4814 Жыл бұрын
    • That's what I'm saying we need to spread the word, and people need to stop using so much water. And I know it's not just the average persons fault, but we should all do our share. I'm a strong believer in clover lawns or no lawns myself.

      @grasm03@grasm03 Жыл бұрын
    • Look at leadership, or lack thereof, for much of the current pickle western water supplies are in. Additionally, I wouldn't be faintly surprised if those leaders were waiting for things to get worse enough for the feds (along with accompanying money) to step in so the whole thing can be dumped into their lap.

      @joewoodchuck3824@joewoodchuck3824 Жыл бұрын
    • Arizona's reservoirs are at capacity, so get out there and fish on!!!

      @onenikkione@onenikkione Жыл бұрын
    • I mean, living in the desert … 🤪 Just sayin 🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

      @cjhoward409@cjhoward4097 ай бұрын
  • Santa Barbara does not use water from the Colorado river. We do get water from Northern Cal SWP. Also we have been using our De Sal plant to supply 20 to 30 percent of our water needs for the last few years. We also produce about one million gallons of reclaim water every day.

    @smidge1872@smidge1872 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you! I corrected this in the pinned comment, meant to say it's LA/SD that drains the river when SB needs the SWP supply later in the season. I just learned there is a desal plant there also shortly after making this video. So they DO exist!😎 Why won't they build them anywhere else? I wonder if it puts a strain on the powerd grid, or what happens to the waste brine? Good for SB though, I've read a lot about their different city water sources lately and I know they are not the real sore spot in the issue.

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
    • Desal is the ANSWER for California, too many people and there will NEVER be enough waterfall!

      @hp2662@hp2662 Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you so much❤ this was an awesome video! Very informative and thorough 🎉😮

    @studio-989@studio-989 Жыл бұрын
    • Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for leaving a comment 👍

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
    • @@mojo.adventures you deserve a compliment ! This video was well done!

      @studio-989@studio-989 Жыл бұрын
  • Thoughts create Reality, Think Harmony and receive balance. Californians Will support offering assistance, and they are strong in following their required Standards. Nevada Elected Officials can reach out and Ask for Help. It is Cooperation that resolves and brings Wellbeing. Previous Resident Nevada Sending Positive Thoughts and Love Beth Tennessee, USA

    @bethbartlett5692@bethbartlett5692 Жыл бұрын
  • California has been running out of water for about a hundred years. In 1900, the population of CA was ~1.5M, now it's ~40M; about the same population as all of Canada! The book/documentary "Cadillac Desert: Mulholland's Dream" does a pretty good job of looking at the history of the Colorado and water in the state of CA.

    @stephenshoihet2590@stephenshoihet2590 Жыл бұрын
  • It's amazing that you guys out there are constantly trying to find ways to preserve your fresh water. I live in the Midwest where we massively oversalt every road, parking lot, and sidewalk knowing full well that all of the salt will end up in lake Michigan, thereby slowly destroying it. The county I live in tries really hard to limit salt use, unfortunately every uninformed uneducated private contractor totally offsets their efforts. I have been trying to get the state of Wisconsin to regulate salt use and require education and licensing like they do for fertilizer application. Unfortunately my government leaders are fools as well and don't seem to care.

    @dueljet@dueljet Жыл бұрын
    • SUM STATES RE NOW USING BEET JUICE INSTEAD OF SALT ON THEIR ROADS

      @domcizek@domcizek Жыл бұрын
    • Until there's a day people can't sue an organization for negligence, salt will be overused.

      @grantduke318@grantduke318 Жыл бұрын
    • @@MrDepodot7 YES, THE MISSISIPPI IS TOXIC, ALL THE FERTILIZER AND SEPTIC TANKS LEACH INTO THE RIVER, CHECK OUT THE DEAD ZONE ALL AROUND THE OUT OF THE RIVER, NOTHING NO FISH, OR ANY LIFE THERE,

      @domcizek@domcizek Жыл бұрын
    • @@grantduke318 SOME STATES ARE NOW USING BEET JUICE

      @domcizek@domcizek Жыл бұрын
    • They rarely use salt nowdays!!!

      @wyattlandon@wyattlandon Жыл бұрын
  • Your voice is very pleasant nice and calming I am very slowly wrapping the rope around my neck at this point

    @wouldntyouliketoknow3811@wouldntyouliketoknow3811 Жыл бұрын
  • Really good commentary.

    @PierceStudent@PierceStudent Жыл бұрын
  • I think you got the part about the current folks "in charge" needing to step up and take notice. Instead of trying to make sure there's equality of outcome put some of that energy into keeping the rain/snow melt water from flowing to the Pacific. Seeing the L.A. River rapidly flowing out to sea is heart breaking.

    @damealeta3541@damealeta3541 Жыл бұрын
  • Great video 👍

    @RemoteTrooper@RemoteTrooper Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you Sir! 😎

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
  • Great vid

    @Hutch400@Hutch400 Жыл бұрын
  • Very informative. Thank you.

    @everettsanderson4189@everettsanderson4189 Жыл бұрын
  • Loved Lake Mead when it had water. 😞 🇨🇦 Veteran

    @robandcheryls@robandcheryls Жыл бұрын
  • I have only seen Powell in person once. It was 1979 and was pretty full at the time. There were tractor trailers launching huge boats at the Page AZ ramp. It's amazing to me how much the lake was ruined in that short 44 year period. Actually much less time since it has been way down for years now.

    @tomearly111@tomearly111 Жыл бұрын
    • I swam in the great salt lake in 1971 when it was a huge lake and teaming with birds. Now they predict it may be gone in five years. No one seems to care any more, it's so sad.

      @PJ-vw4zu@PJ-vw4zu Жыл бұрын
    • Just a few years ago the water level was fine its dropped unbelievably in the last few yrs alone. Id like to know why.

      @lloydchristmas1086@lloydchristmas1086 Жыл бұрын
    • @@lloydchristmas1086 You would have to ask the residents and politicians in California who act like it’s their water to use as they please and to hell with everyone else upstream. Those of us that live in Colorado have been on water rationing for years and appreciate the resource.

      @jeffj-ix5lq@jeffj-ix5lq Жыл бұрын
    • 20 YEAR DROUGHT PLUS TO MANY PEOPLE MOVING TO AZ, UTAH, CA, AND NEVADA,

      @domcizek@domcizek Жыл бұрын
    • @@domcizek You bring in 20 million new people into the country and no matter where they end up the new residents push from the bottom up. Rent's go up artificially (section 8) and this forces people to move to cheaper rents and then people move to Nevada, Utah, Arizona after their real estate rises in California, Arizona, Utah. All the housing gets artificial pressure because the government supports the immigrants allowing them into a market they normally wouldn't be able to afford. I live in Fresno, Ca and the building of new homes is staggering. The local government says we have bad air and no water but the crazy building continues.

      @dirtcurt1@dirtcurt111 ай бұрын
  • I was in Las Vegas mid-January and left a few days before the snow hit. Would have loved to have seen it, but I'm glad I didn't. ~db

    @majilique@majilique Жыл бұрын
  • I lived in Austin over a decade ago. Lake Travis was very low. Young people were beside themselves as to "what to do". But older seniors said they had seen this before, twice. they weren't concerned. Lake Travis is 33 miles long and when I moved away, it was down 58 feet. We had to walk way down long ramps to get to their boat. I went back to visit about a year and a half later and it was so high we couldn't park in the usual parking lot up on the road. water was lapping over the parking lot in the marina. They also panic every time Lake Superior drops a little, then it ALWAYS comes back to exactly what its historic average does.

    @scottmechura5084@scottmechura5084 Жыл бұрын
    • Do you have a point here ?

      @curtwpk1361@curtwpk1361 Жыл бұрын
  • Great video and we try and stay in the lowest water usage in our city.

    @macmovieman1@macmovieman1 Жыл бұрын
  • 6:02- Shasta dam. Beatiful dam. Gravity dam.

    @user-st2ti4wy1w@user-st2ti4wy1w11 күн бұрын
  • There are some states that are saying we are entitled to more water; all this as the lake level drops.

    @geoffreylee5199@geoffreylee5199 Жыл бұрын
  • You are right, just because we have more rain and snowfall we shouldn't just go back to business as usual. We are still in a drought condition. I say until we get the reservoir up to 60% of full capacity the state should not lift the drought restrictions.

    @MrRawnerves@MrRawnerves Жыл бұрын
  • Excellent video, but somewhat depressing to see how poorly planned and managed our water supplies are. With government in charge I don't see how it will get any better.

    @skcyclist@skcyclist Жыл бұрын
    • Nothing ever gets better when liberal governments in charge. You want real change? Vote Republican. The end. But people love misery and crime apparently

      @thebluetarp@thebluetarp Жыл бұрын
    • Sounds like they have idiots and morons in water management

      @Michael-le7kl@Michael-le7kl Жыл бұрын
    • Mother nature is trying with all the snow pack and rain coming in. Need to find a way to divert all that flooding waters to lake mead. And Powell

      @Michael-le7kl@Michael-le7kl Жыл бұрын
    • When they made the water-pack agreements it was during a wet. And they estimated that there's more water in the river than there is. Literally there was nobody farming and living in the desert. Colorado River feeds the nation and provides water to literally millions of people now, the children of the children whose parents built it. In 1970 the world had three billion people living on it and today it's 8 billion people. There's a lot less water as Private Industry and people take advantage with property value skyrocketing and homes being built that cannot keep up with demand. Too many straws hooked into the water stream. All the water is consumed before it gets to the ocean. And the federal government is declining to do anything about it, as you noted. The first thing to do I guess is to stop all future developments. Meanwhile speculators are buying up all the water rights, one farm at a time. An interesting story that goes along with that is a California couple that has done just that. Even through the worst of the drought their almond trees never missed a drop of water. The water law that regulates the distribution of water was written like in 1920. Grandfathered-in, I get all the water I want. Those that have water rates are not going to be easily persuaded not to sell to investors flush with cash from Wall Street. No Republican Administration is going to restrict water use, deregulation is the rule. Any effort by the Biden Administration will be considered an attack on freedom and private personal rights infringement as un-American and unconstitutional. Rather than just saying they're doing a poor job, what are your suggestions everybody can rally behind? Farms gets a majority of the water which is how we get much of our food. The Aguila aquifer grows our food in the midwest is also being depleted at an alarming rate to grow our food. The Mississippi River is too low to move Freight. How do you see the federal government can fix these water issues that you seemingly are blaming for the shortages? Currently the focus is upon Twitter blocking alternative truth and President Biden's evilness for reducing gasoline prices for political gain two hours after blaming him for high gas prices. MGT speaking there. Marjorie Greene and George Santos have a brilliant plan I'm sure, yet-to-be-revealed. I guess it all starts there and who are you backing that has the brilliant plan to solve these problems without hanging President Biden as a reaction? I think there is no one as capitalism chases dollars being the solution to the Socialist dams built.

      @zAlaska@zAlaska Жыл бұрын
    • @Michael on the flip side the Yangtze River is dry and has never done that before. The Mississippi River shut down barge traffic this year due to a lack of water. Reminds me of a Reservoir built in Texas that remained empty for 25 years and people thought it was a waste of money, when the floods did come it's filled. Ronald Reagan was not a fan of the federal government building reservoirs, saying that it was something for states to do on their own. If California wants to feed the nation, California has to spend its money to build the reservoirs. I think the federal government's attitude has moderated since then, but they're out of the reservoir business. Imagine the huge pipelines and pumps required to move the many rivers flooding. Like the cut Columbia river which some idiot put next to the Hanford High radioactive waste site and the two are blending. As for any salmon that still survive, the massiveness of such a project surely will be disruptive to any life left in the rivers. They already have irrigation canals that are working at full capacity moving water to Southern California irrigation ditches full so you can flood your farm land and recharge the ground water. Farmers flooding their fields with ditchwater is occurring but they're not turning their fields into lakes. That would destroy the Farms. I think you have a great idea and I like it but I don't think it's practical, affordable, and people are going to be pissed that it's not going to be used for the next 20 years if the rain quits Falling Again. And Google needs to learn about capitalization with lots of errors I Tire of correcting. They can't even put a train through the mountains. I don't think the government's in charge but Private Industry that consumes demanding growth and more and more and more. As for those with the Brilliant Minds such as Marjorie Taylor Greene who have a vision of the future that includes tax cuts for those that no longer pay taxes and tax increases for those who cannot buy food. Balancing the budget with the commitment to cut upper tax levels and eliminate spending elsewhere if we're going to spend somewhere even as they debate if they're going to pay their interest payments on the national debt. It requires the great minds that have graduated the greatschools that really teach something as opposed to the $40,000 money Mill I attended. To really get it a solution I suggest we should talk with the great educated Minds like Senator George Santos and Marjorie Greene Taylor that can't read large numbers out loud at least knows the alternative truth that nobody else knows. Hopeless. As they focus on BDE of Hunter Biden and forcing ten-year-old rape victims to have the Blessed event, it is obvious there are more important things than water they are considering first. Such as President Joe Biden getting gasoline prices to drop just for political points which now has been made illegal to do again. Look no further than the governor race in Alabama between a well-educated and an idiot and the uneducated Press Secretary of Donald Trump won the election. Bad candidates and even worse, elected in the office what their only qualification is support for Donald Trump and the stolen election he lost even though he disabled the Postal Service that carried the opposing votes and fell short. This Senate is not going to get anything done as they pursue their alternate truths that are fiction at the best. The decree that Fox News will be on every set in the Capitol Building Wherever You Are just this week amplifying their priorities. Instead of an infomercial about welcome to the Capitol on every screen oh, we're going to have Fox commentator screaming at the guests wherever they may be. Such priorities even at it as it is clear practically everything Murdoch's Fox presents is a controversial lie. America First and F Central America and South America. No worries for them, China is offering unlimited credit for anyone who all accept it in those regions making it impossible in the future for us to ever invest in our neighbors flooding us to escape poverty and savagery we've created with our guns for drugs transactions.

      @zAlaska@zAlaska Жыл бұрын
  • You have it right about calif not storing enough water.

    @Paiadakine@Paiadakine Жыл бұрын
  • Great video & info. I totally agree with you that water needs to be preserved & not wasted. I would like to see California become more conservative in their water use as well as the farmers & agriculture producers throughout the west

    @nathanmarchant2175@nathanmarchant2175 Жыл бұрын
  • With all this excess water - one should divert it into the Salton Sea and refill it - as it will fill up its underground aquifer - which is constantly being drained by the El Central and Anz Borrego agriculture regions.

    @johnlord8337@johnlord8337 Жыл бұрын
    • Is there any way to get the water from the existing canal system into the Salton Sea? If infrastructure has to be built it's too late for this year, and good luck trying to get funding to build canals to be used only in unusually heavy ranfall/snowfall years. Still, it would seem like there's potential there.

      @carlinglin7289@carlinglin7289 Жыл бұрын
    • @@carlinglin7289 The Colorado River was a wild river and jumping its bank - and what created the Salton Sea in modern times ... but also in colonial times - also drained into the Central Valley and flooded up to 30 feet deep and flowed into the Gulf of California - for all those 14 legendary Spanish, English, Portuguese, et al treasure ships buried in the desert (!). If this State would ever get off its woke agenda and do something worthwhile they could quickly make and divert such Los Angeles and San Diego water systems into the Central Valley - even if it means uplifting over the coastal mountains or tunneling through and pushing the water into the Central Valley. Alas, they just want to be toads on a stump barrumping their voices in the media and air waves ...

      @johnlord8337@johnlord8337 Жыл бұрын
    • Hey there again John! The talk of refilling the Salton Sea has come up again and again lately. There's a channel here on KZhead of a gentlemen living there who swims in it and is trying to sort of revive the image. I agree about the Colorado though- it was wild when floods hit. It would be very interesting yet volatile to see what it'd be up to today if untamed!

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
    • @@mojo.adventures For that swimmer - makes me think about Kramer swimming in the Hudson and giving his smelly mattress to Elaine !!! The Salton Sea with no fresh waters (versus the Jordan River running into the Dead Sea), with living and dying fish, fish poop, water and saltwater bird poop, leached fertilizers (toxins and antibiotics) from the nearby ag and livestock fields, and the schmucky shoreline of all the remaining and deteriorating buildings, concrete, wood, algae, toxic algae, ... he is a walking-talking toxic zombie ! The Salton needs a massive washout and flushing to finally get back to a living inland saline sea. And uck !!! to those peeps in the Gulf of California Mexico in which this would all drain into - and the giant squid and whale nursery therein.

      @johnlord8337@johnlord8337 Жыл бұрын
    • @@mojo.adventures With Lithium found in the geothermal field near the Salton Sea, more attention may be coming their way. Time to buy RE?

      @nuqwestr@nuqwestr Жыл бұрын
  • If you have high demand, you need high supply. Build more lakes for storage capacity, or decrease demand and live within your means / supply. Make the choices and stop the searches for scapegoats. Weather happens, it always has and always will. Excellent presentation.

    @01july1953@01july1953 Жыл бұрын
    • Build more lakes? Where are you getting the water? lol.

      @ZONEPRESSLLC@ZONEPRESSLLC Жыл бұрын
  • Good information

    @WalkerOne@WalkerOne Жыл бұрын
  • I live in Colorado and see the river every day. We have and still are receiving more snow than we have in years. No huge record amounts, but better than we have had. Hopefully, it will continue for a good while. Everyone needs it.

    @charleskemp2037@charleskemp2037 Жыл бұрын
    • live in colorado as well but we cannot sustain this sort of living and full green yards massive golf courses anymore.

      @C0mm0nS3ns3@C0mm0nS3ns3 Жыл бұрын
    • @@C0mm0nS3ns3 they used very little of water compadres to almond fields and hay .

      @racingjunk7024@racingjunk7024 Жыл бұрын
  • In Oregon where I live a lot of the water in the southern part of the state drains into the ocean, that water at least some of it could be diverted down south to California the same way they built the canal that feeds some part of the state. California is building a fast rail system that I don't think is done yet, at the same time they could build a canal to divert some of the water from Oregon if politicians put their minds together for the people.

    @Luigi13@Luigi13 Жыл бұрын
    • Plenty of fresh water in Washington & Oregon. Idiots runs govts. Idiots who behave like communists and live for themselves like rich capitalists, only they get their money from corruption. The water problem is easily solved. This drought situation is ridiculous.

      @victorblock3421@victorblock3421 Жыл бұрын
  • I live in Yucca Valley Ca. Been in the same house for 15 years now & have seen the Hi-Desert water district fix the main line on our road at least 60 times! Our road is only ½mi & they could give a crap about water running down the road & out into the desert some times its several breaks a week. They just insist on patching it. Sad!

    @CD-hc5ds@CD-hc5ds Жыл бұрын
  • I lived in southern CA (Orange County) for almost 60 years. It is classified as "coastal desert". Unfortunately, all the developers thought it was a great idea to plant nearly 4 million acres of lawns in S. Cal. (according to the University of California's Division of Agriculture). Instead of landscaping with the indigenous foliage and drought tolerant plants, they went the wrong way, and they are still doing it. Another unseen damage has been discovered offshore. Abundant sea life and kelp beds have been devastated. All the over fertilized lawns have dumped tons of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium into our drainage system that leads to the Pacific. These cause algae blooms which cut off light to the kelp beds. The kelp dies off, the bait fish disappear, and the sport fishing vanishes. Just a saltwater covered desert.

    @bibleortraditions@bibleortraditions Жыл бұрын
    • Great information 👍 This is what Las Vegas was working on the last decade or so... the native landscaping and unnecessary irrigation. They realized early on this was the biggest consumer of unreclaimable water. The methods and road map to water security are out there, we just need everyone on board together!

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures11 ай бұрын
  • Ok what I don't get they started letting more water out of Hover dam so when it's all said and done you have negative water. I personally think they shouldn't let any more out just the bare minimum otherwise wait to see if the lake is go to rise substantially. And also with all the snow and rain 🌧 I myself think it's still a little colder than usual and I don't see farmers planting crops just yet.

    @raystevens687@raystevens687 Жыл бұрын
  • I was told that a town in Northern California made special roads that drained underneath to catch water, and then cleaned up for gray water uses. Brilliant! I live in San Diego county, and we have gone overboard for many many years towards zero landscapes and other water saving measures. We are in good shape last I heard for years to come.

    @ridealongwithrandy@ridealongwithrandy Жыл бұрын
    • That is pretty interesting, I haven't heard of that road drainage system before! I'm glad to hear that San Diego has been enacting water saving measures and zero landscapes. My next video I was going to ask viewers in other cities if they currently have any drought/water restrictions. It's going to take all of us along the river working together to make a change! Thank you for watching and leaving a comment👍

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
    • I live in Marin County California and the amount of water going directly into the bay is incalculable. We have a water district here with five large lakes that are jammed and very deep so we have plenty of water here for our county but so much more could be captured it may be could go in giant underground Holding tanks or something instead of the water going into the gutter and then straight to the bay can go into the gutter and into holding tanks we could capture so much more water and that’s just one town in one county in California if you multiply that by the amount of towns there are in California there would be no need to draw from the Colorado ever again. Individual towns have got to start thinking about their water for themselves back in 1913 some very forward thinking engineers built them are in municipal water district with hardly anyone lived here anticipating population growth and boy were they right. That is what I mean, it could happen today for any town in California you can set up a way to catch water it’s not rocket science and then just do it. It may cost some money but once you do that if you have water security it’ll all be worth it!!!!

      @kennethkossan5547@kennethkossan5547 Жыл бұрын
    • @@mojo.adventures kzhead.info/sun/gdVxZtJ6op6snYU/bejne.html Every city that gets its water from Chicago and Lake Michigan is required to have water restrictions. Most common is that you can water every other day (based on odd/even address) from 7AM-11AM and 7PM-11PM between May 15th and September 15th. Despite the availability and amount of fresh water in our area, we pay a lot more for it than Las Vegas Metro does. We pay $6.11 per 1,000 gallons (up to 8,000 and the price increases from there). Las Vegas charges $1.46 per 1,000 up to 5,000 gallons., even then it only increases to $2.61.

      @gwheelock911@gwheelock911 Жыл бұрын
    • GOOD IDEA ON THE ROADS, ALSO, ZEROSCAPE. ALSO SHOULD DEMAND LOW FLOW SHOWERES AND TOILETS, AND NO GOLF COURSES

      @domcizek@domcizek Жыл бұрын
  • Great information. I am from Ohio but still concerned about the western drought as I know that it also affects our food supply. I hate to see all the devastating flood effects in the west. However, it would be a crime if the officials don't maximize this gift from the heavens!

    @GregoryWingham@GregoryWingham Жыл бұрын
    • HARD TO DO, ALL THAT FLOOD HAS CONTAMINATED WATER, SO IT CAN NOT BE DRANK,

      @domcizek@domcizek Жыл бұрын
    • @@domcizek Hard to do after the fact, yes. California should have been working to rectify this for many years now. This is not the first wet year in California where proper planning could have helped the water supply in a dramatic way.

      @MileHighGrowler@MileHighGrowler Жыл бұрын
  • 3:33- Meed near Hoover. Beatiful dam.

    @user-st2ti4wy1w@user-st2ti4wy1w11 күн бұрын
  • Intelligent and well prepared video...unlike the dumb click bait junk out there in KZhead Land...thank you!!!!

    @alexzabala2154@alexzabala2154 Жыл бұрын
    • Thanks appreciate that 👍 Yeah I just watched one... something like "WHAT SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED AT LAKE MEAD WILL SHOCK YOU" then it didn't say anything about any discovery the whole video. I was ready to drive down there and find some kind of dinosaur skeleton or something 😂

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
    • @@mojo.adventures yes, or "This is the END!!!" and nothing ...lol

      @alexzabala2154@alexzabala2154 Жыл бұрын
  • The hefty snow packs in Utah and Colorado will certainly help both Mead and Powell. Mead is determined mostly by outflow from Powell. If March & April has significant snow and rain there may be great improvement to both.

    @edwardsullivan5481@edwardsullivan5481 Жыл бұрын
    • I certainly hope you're right! 👍 Even a small recovery would be nice after seeing all this flooding out west! Looking at it realistically though- the USBR has now suspended further upstream releases into Powell, and that's after they already said they are going to release less into Mead before that. There's just not enough to go around...

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын
    • Atmospheric River yesterday and today pounding Utah and Colorado. And 3 days from now another 2 dayer.

      @mrcinemagrouppy@mrcinemagrouppy Жыл бұрын
    • One season doesn't erase 25 years of drought... 😂

      @ssom06@ssom06 Жыл бұрын
    • @@ssom06 Where did you get the idea of 25 years of drought? As recently as 2017 and 2019 California was saturated with no drought at all. You can look at any year at Droughtmonitor with the map archive page. You can also see any year of SWE snow water equivalency with California Cooperative Snow Surveys. Google both and get up to speed. The 25 year drought is a climate character fabrication you read somewhere.

      @edwardsullivan5481@edwardsullivan5481 Жыл бұрын
    • DESALINATION AND PIPELINES, PUMPING WATER BACK UP STREAM...WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO HAVE AMPLE WATER.

      @Bert828282@Bert828282 Жыл бұрын
  • Couldn’t agree more on the demand problem.

    @adventures_in_all@adventures_in_all Жыл бұрын
  • Born and raised in the Bay Area…live in Wisconsin now, it truly puzzles me why there has not been a “Storage Reservoirs” built just south of the Bay Area, south of Bakersfield and south of Los Angeles. Like was mentioned when one reservoir is maxed the water is released to the ocean, has NEVER made sense…SMH😢

    @reginaldlewis4811@reginaldlewis4811 Жыл бұрын
    • According the SWP(State Water Project) there are no more viable locations to build dams and reservoirs...I'm pretty sure there are still areas we could build dams and reservoirs, but they're in environmentally sensitive areas which precludes doing so because we're such good stewards of the environment.

      @zaklex3165@zaklex3165 Жыл бұрын
    • You can thank the ecowhackos for that stupidity. Government jobs, especially regulatory jobs are dominated by ecowhackos who donated their brains to enlist in California universities . "... According the SWP(State Water Project) there are no more viable locations ..." bulshit. According to "anti-reservoir tree huggers...."

      @curtwpk1361@curtwpk1361 Жыл бұрын
  • There is an old Irish saying, "There is always enough for everyone's needs. There is never enough for everyone's greed." We continuously affirm its veracity.

    @paulledaire8967@paulledaire8967 Жыл бұрын
  • I liked your analysis of the average high water date for Lake Powel however I don't think that will be valid this year as it's been much colder than average in the west, and the 30 day forecast is for continued cold and snow throughout the west. In short I believe there is the potential for significant improvement throughout the Colorado River watershed once the Spring thaw begins.

    @brianlangum6253@brianlangum6253 Жыл бұрын
    • If I were you I would not count my chickens before they are hatched. I just read that some of the northern areas are going to hold back water from getting to Lake Powell and it appears that they have not done that before.

      @rayfreeman2305@rayfreeman2305 Жыл бұрын
    • @@rayfreeman2305 It ALL hinges on how much more snow and rain falls in the Colorado River basin, and how it melts. I think it's premature to have already assumed Lake Powel will not gain pool elevation this Spring with a never ending parade of storms and cold weather forecast for the next 30 days. I'm not saying Lake Powel will be full pool by July, but at the same time I think it will be in a much better level than at the same time last year.

      @brianlangum6253@brianlangum6253 Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for these updates, hope you keep doing it. Good presentation, delivery and analysis of data you have gathered. I have learned so much on this topic and being from the upper midwest and far removed from this problem it has been fun to follow. It appears the senior water users are part of the problem as the jr. members appear to be making voluntary water usage cuts but not the senior members. The BLM failed to act thinking the user states would come to an agreement but that is not happening. My suggestion is for more construction of new water desalinization plants along the Pacific Ocean and for more capture capacity of this "atmospheric river" water that the news is all giddy about and prevent this rainfall from all running into the ocean. I also suggest the BLM making changes to the old water use agreements but suppose that would end up at the supreme court.

    @kellybengtson4476@kellybengtson4476 Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for this data-based, and holistic view of the water crisis in the SW US. A disproportionate segment of the population is largely incapable of seeing this situation in any other way than piecemeal. I have long thought that Lake Mead will continue to drop as I too have observed the data. I do very much like the way the data was presented in terms of high-water date and levels for the last 20 years. This report is scientific, data-based and offers views that are counter to what those in power are pushing. I would say with confidence that the average resident in California for example is not engaged in any serious attempt to curb their personal water use. Swimming pools abound and green grass grows as if it is a subtropical climate. In addition, Las Vegas continues to grow predicated on a myth that water will always be available. Yes, the population in the SW US continues to grow and yet there are ways to limit water use and give nature a chance to recover.

    @petevalles3934@petevalles393411 ай бұрын
    • Thank you Pete! Great comments, appreciate you adding to the conversation👍 I think that if Las Vegas can use LESS water year after year while growing in population, then most cities in the SW should be able to do the same thing. Especially cities with access to more water resources. It's not only about conservation, but also reclamation. I do have issues though with the constant unabated construction that has been ongoing in Las Vegas. Especially all the exclusive luxury communities being built in the last few years to house wealthy out of state folks who don't want to live in the desert. The Raiders players and staff contributed a lot to this problem when they came back in 2020. Our governer had to build an entire pro stadium in the midst of drought and the pandemic. Water managers in NV will constantly say new people don't use more water because we reclaim more, but they apparently don't take into account all the luxury non-native landscaping, pools, water fountains, etc these luxury communities have to have. Not to mention the endless spraying of construction sites with water as the cut up the mountain to build these luxury lots. City leaders, who are owned by developers, will just say they can't slow construction because it will crash the local economy. Well yeah... so will RUNNING OUT OF WATER!

      @mojo.adventures@mojo.adventures11 ай бұрын
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