Las Vegas is F*CKED ... Running Out of Water and Electricity
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A couple of locals have been doing videos on the alarming drop in water levels at Lake Mead. It's nothing new. It's been going on for 20 years. But now, it is at crucial levels.
Here, they show how the water level has dropped, and how the reservoir is running dry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCBG_aVkv4s
In this one (more recent), they show how the turbines at Hoover Dam, that generate electricity, are just about far enough out of the water that they won't be able to produce electricity anymore. That will shut down 1/3 of the electricity in Las Vegas:
When water covers 73% of the earth, we certainly do have plenty. What we do have is a structured collapse likely added onto by a drought enhanced by weather modificafion and certainly a huge planning failure when it comes to California having desalinization plants operating right now. The problem is us letting us be run by the worst of us for the last how many ever decades
Stating water coverage of the earths surface has no relationship to local and regional access and availability to water. It does not relate to water tables nor upstream water flow, snowpack and runoff or the aggregate issues of diversions and reservoir management. 73% water covering earth has no contribution to relevance to the Colorado river drainage. Of coarse government water management is negligent. It is not the root cause or corrective action as a single area for these issues. Too many humans using too many resources, building in climates unsustainable to support existing and expanding populations coupled with regional droughts, land misuse and development resulting in recessed or near drained water tables in key locations and block selling water rights outside regional and state originations of water sources would be relevant and key to correcting. All of which is a massive undertaking. When folks turn on their tap and its a dry air pressure or tiny drip this major issue will become very real, very fast to alot of people.
Look, I get the basics of hydrology, climate, and resource distribution. The point of stating the coverage highlights the fact that we have been mismanaged for decades because there is no excuse for the sorry state of our infrastructure in the US, and specifically our water infrastructure. We still use fucking floride and chlorine for water treatment when we should have desalinization plants on the coasts putting salt mines out of business and piping pure fresh water all across the country. Don't let the current dystopian reality obscure the vision of what the world could and should be. At 73% coverage and this far a long in history and technological development, there is no excuse that clean drinking water is not readily available in the driest of deserts. We only have our corruptocrats and our lazy selves to blame for leading us to this precipice. Just like how there are water pipelines running from Lake Mead to CA and AZ, we could have had pipelines sending desalinated water from the Pacific to be stored in these reservoirs. The fact that we are not comes back to corruption and this dystopian society we find ourselves in.
I agree with some of what you are saying. All could or should be utilized and or implemented and have been stifled through policy or other directives. Additionally some of those examples are a form of fix but not solutions, piping long run lines to transmit water is an example. This is a fix and not a very good one due to who is the provider, maintenance etc. A load of additional factors added im not going to cover in a reply here.
I dont agree that water shortages are artificial and based entirely on those factors and the reason I responded was that inference. The dystopian reality is not a lense i filter information through and is a parascope perspective not conducive to an elaborate issue like water shortages imo.
On paper there is enough water in the world. That doesn't mean there is enough water in Lake Mead for Las Vegas to survive - even if they 100% cut off CA and AZ.
Saying we have plenty is like saying when the famine was decimating Ethiopia way back when there was plenty of food in the world. Sure there may have been, but not in Ethiopia at that time.
Desalinization plants won't help NV unless CA gets their asses in gear, builds plants that make enough fresh water for CA, AZ, and NV, and builds pipelines. One smelt or salamander near any pipeline path will put a stop to it anyway.
At this point about the only thing the citizens of NV can do is move to another state, and maybe short casino stocks to cover the move.
Salt water doesn't count, unless you remove the salt. That takes billions of dollars and either coal or nuke power. It also requires doing something with the salt, which is easier said than done.
This is not Saudi Arabia, where they basically have free petro to run their plants.
90% of the world's fresh water is underground, not on the surface. Problem is, the West doesn't have as much due to the climate. They do have underground aquifers, but those need to be recharged from time to time via rain, and they are in a long-term drought.
It's possible to turn the situation around, but pretty close to zero chance of that happening because everyone who is in position to do something about it is operating on false ideas of how it could be done.
So, it won't be done.
Therefore, unless there is an end to the drought, it is only a matter of time.
Not if, but when ...
So at least for the "what to do with the salt" problem: return the salt to the hollow underground salt mines and cut Mortons and other companies in to source their salt from the desalinization plants. To me, it has been our politicians who have handicapped us and desalinization plans lie in our scifi world future once we take care of those who oppress us.