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Posted: 6/12/2022 10:51:43 AM EDT
Sure, most of you already knew that. I remember the first time I visited Vegas in 2008 you could see the water regression lines. What is the long term solution to this ?
If you go to “Sin City Outdoors” YouTube channel they have some great videos. |
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Stop building giant cities, suburbs, and golf courses in the desert?
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What was the water level of lake Mead before man started changing the climate?
Edit: or What was the level of Lake Mead 100 years ago? |
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Quoted: Sure, most of you already knew that. I remember the first time I visited Vegas in 2008 you could see the water regression lines. What is the long term solution to this ? If you go to "Sin City Outdoors" YouTube channel they have some great videos. View Quote |
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Stop govt financing/subsidization of massive cites in traditionally uninhabitable geographic areas?
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Biden is going to make Lake Mead his priority.
What was the water level of lake Mead before man started changing the climate? Edit: What was the level of Lake Mead 100 years ago? View Quote Attached File |
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Quoted: Stop building giant cities, suburbs, and golf courses in the desert? View Quote NSFW.... Sam Kineson You Live in a desert |
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Mead was built in, what, 1935?
Populations done changed a bit since then. I’d really recommend checking out Sin City Outdoors documenting of it all. |
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Quoted: What is the long term solution to this ? View Quote Stop subsidizing development in the middle of a desert by using tax dollars to import water, or the much simpler: Stop watering the fucking grass. |
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PRICES ARE UP AND THE STOCK MARKETS DOWN, YOU ONLY GET MUGGED IF YOU GO DOWNTOWN
LAKE MEADS DRY AND LEFTISTS STILL CRY WE'VE ONLY 12 YEARS AND WE'RE ALL MOWED DOWN.. |
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The Boomers can salvage that B-29 soon without the help of Courier Six!
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Quoted: Quoted: What was the water level of lake Mead before man started changing the climate? There was no Lake Mead back then. I'm hoping that is the point the member was making... I took it as him being sarcastic and I applaud him for it. Unless he really thinks there was a Lake Mead 100yrs ago. |
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Quoted: I'm hoping that is the point the member was making... I took it as him being sarcastic and I applaud him for it. Unless he really thinks there was a Lake Mead 100yrs ago. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: What was the water level of lake Mead before man started changing the climate? I'm hoping that is the point the member was making... I took it as him being sarcastic and I applaud him for it. Unless he really thinks there was a Lake Mead 100yrs ago. |
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All climate change bullshit aside the life supporting capacity of an area of land is a thing. Depopulate the area voluntarily, bring in more outside water, or nature will depopulate the area involuntarily.
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Don't worry fuckers, we all moving eastward when we run dry out here!
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Solutions have been proposed many times over the years and the same “can’t” people latch onto some concern to stop it rather than refine the solution
This thread will demonstrate that |
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Personally for me I hope that all of ice caps on both pole completely melt down, and I will have beech front property at my house.
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Lake Mead is just the largest, most visible example of what is happening across the West.
This book sums it up quite well - past, present, and future. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water |
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If we really wanted to have a long term impact we could keyline the marginal areas of the desert SW. Run swales on contour and create reservoirs wherever it's practical to do so and plant pioneer species in the spoil to shade the ground and cover the soil. Given enough time we could significantly increase the reliability of rainfall not only in the SW but across the midwest and the continent and increase our total arable and agricultural land.
China and Africa have been working on desert terraforming projects for decades already. In the near term demand is going to have to be reduced for water from Mead if trends hold. |
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A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. View Quote |
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Quoted: Sure, most of you already knew that. What is the long term solution to this ? View Quote Multiple threads on this over the past 2 years. And people taking out less water is the solution. |
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Quoted: Stop subsidizing development in the middle of a desert by using tax dollars to import water, or the much simpler: Stop watering the fucking grass. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: What is the long term solution to this ? Stop subsidizing development in the middle of a desert by using tax dollars to import water, or the much simpler: Stop watering the fucking grass. I believe there's commie towns that have snitch lines or that actually go do code enforcement and fine you for watering the lawn or washing your car and they can see the water spilling into the street |
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But golf courses, and lawn are green, fuck growing food though.
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A serious society would have a number of massive nuclear powered desalination plants running on the coast of California. As well as a number of pipeline and reservoir projects all over the west. Unfortunately, we don't seem to be a serious society anymore.
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I have pictures of the intake towers from 2011 and the difference in the water level to today is quite alarming. No idea what the solution is, whatever it is probably makes sense and so nobody will implement it.
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I'm afraid they missed the opportunity to do anything about this 20 years ago.
Now they can't stop what's coming and it will be bad for all of us. |
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Sending 40 million illegals home would be a good start. There would be extra housing, food, water, and gasoline for the legal citizens.
kwg |
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Quoted: Stop building giant cities, suburbs, and golf courses in the desert? View Quote Hurrrrrrrrr durrrrrrrr Las Vegas is actually adjacent a massive water source, with more than enough water to satisfy the needs of the population. Much like people get water out of the Mississippi, they get water out of the Colorado. Las Vegas uses a tiny percentage of the water allocation for that river, and then treat and return it. The rest is pissed away by the Californians, who generally live nowhere fucking near the river. |
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Quoted: I have pictures of the intake towers from 2011 and the difference in the water level to today is quite alarming. No idea what the solution is, whatever it is probably makes sense and so nobody will implement it. View Quote Part of the solution is more reservoirs in nor cal and central California to capture more winter runoff then use that to irrigate. |
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Quoted: I have pictures of the intake towers from 2011 and the difference in the water level to today is quite alarming. No idea what the solution is, whatever it is probably makes sense and so nobody will implement it. View Quote The solution is to let nature do nature things. Finding a man made solution for everything is the dumbest idea that’s come along, and has fucked us on everything from housing to healthcare. This man made lake in the desert going dry is a perfect example. |
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