Lake Mead water levels lowest level since 1930's.
 

Lake Mead lowest level since Hoover Dam was built in the 1930's The slide show is worth viewing. Kind of scary when you think about the tremendous volume of water that's no longer there.



http://i.imgur.com/E4EtmSC.jpg


Water level in Lake Mead, largest reservoir in the US, drops 150 feet in 14 years


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its been bottled?

isn't there a water level where the generators will stop operating?

As an offtopic. The Hoover Dam is a real great building. I've made this picture when was traveling to Vegas:

http://s004.radikal.ru/i205/1505/40/05c8d4f70427.jpg

Why would you even come here? You hate Americans. Also, we don't want you here. Stick to photographing things in your own 3rd world country such as Government Food assistance lines and abandoned nuclear missile silos.

Interesting to see the white waterline in such sharp contrast - calcification?

Low Water May Halt Hoover Dam's Power | Circle of Blue WaterNews

Why not? As a citizen of this planet I can travel anywhere I want.

Where did I say I hate them? Also which ones? Native Americans or immigrants from Europe, Africa and Asia that live there? Be more specific with your silly statements please.

Who are "we", clown? :1orglaugh I have many friends and customers in the States and you are definitely not one of them (I have no business with morons).

My country has nothing to do with 3rd-world. Russia is the only country which can send your astronauts to the outer space (yours can't). So, eat your crustyburger and try to not fart that much and not spoil the atmosphere :winkwink:

This is why Republicans need to speed up global warming; to melt more polar ice to replace this water.


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Tell the people in Vegas to stop putting their beer on ice and the problem is solved.

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last time i was there it was low. that was over 5 years ago think almost 10. more people less water.

Interestin' slideshow. Looks rather severe.

And yet, we just went through one of the worst winters for precipitation we've had in many years.

How long before Obama gets the notion to twin the oil pipelines and use one to run water from the Great Lakes to the midwest? :1orglaugh




It's gonna take a lot of Mr. Clean to scrub out that 'bathtub ring'.

It's like that from Texas to Cali in the southern states..

This was Lake Buchanan in Texas. Where I was at in the first picture should of been completely under water. That's a boat ramp in front of me.. Keep in mind this wasn't a natural lake as it's on the Colorado River and was made by a dam. I guess there isn't enough water to keep it filled anymore.

http://i.imgur.com/uG85hiS.jpg

The sign says no boats left unattended.. I don't think there have been boats here in a long long time. I'm bet the people whom own those houses are not enjoying the water front property..

http://i.imgur.com/P5OK5xY.jpg


Canyon Lake which was further south and closer to Austin was very bad as well. There was only a single boat ramp on the entire lake which was still in water and able to launch boats. There were tons of boat storage businesses whom had gone out of business because no one was storing their boats for week end get a ways at the lake.

Is the water in Lake Mead being diverted to help grow California crops?

Excuse me? The shithole state I live in, Michigan ( famous for Detroit and Robocob :P) is surrounded by one of the greatest assets of mankind -- the Great Lakes -- the Great Lakes also owned by Canada, Ohio (remember Cleveland - ''the mistake on the Lake''), Illinois (Chi-town), New York State (the hydro-electric plants at Niagara feed both Canada and the US Eastern Area).

You are welcome to build a pipeline but we may charge you $10 a gallon at the 'wellhead'.

It rained last night 2" here -- set some buckets out to collect it next time and truck it to LA -- it will cost you $200 / gal delivered.

I used to laugh at everyone here saying ''one day the world will move here for our water'' -- now I take the thought more seriously. If people immigrate here for the water we have, my property values will zoom :thumbsup With global warming our winters may be milder +

The Colorado River is the source of Lake Mead. And Lake Mead is a man-made lake, not natural.

When I go to Laughlin, the river is full up to it's banks. Not drying up. But with California siphoning off the main percentage of the water that is allocated to Lake Mead and Las Vegas having a huge poplulation full of homes with yards that must be watered every day (it's a desert here)...something has to give.

Too many people in Cali and Vegas.

You just gave a geography speech on the Great Lakes - to a guy who lives between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. My Loyalist ancestors settled the area in the 1700s.

About a mile from here is a hilltop where I can see both lakes - Lake Ontario to the north and Erie to the south.

A few more miles from here is the Niagara hydro plants you speak of. We kept the lights on and the beer cold during the northeast blackout in '03. :1orglaugh

you know what this is?
this is sand.

you know what it will be in 100 years?

fucking sand!
it's the fucking desert!

And as funny as hell that is - it's all too true.

Then you know what I am sayin' LOL

We lake landers will eat cold slaw for the winter :thumbsup

a lot of lakes are man made!

yep, I used to live in the foothills of South Carolina and the biggest lake there is Lake Hartwell. Also man-made.

Except you can't eat the fish there and it's not the best place to swim...it was built to support the nuclear plant there. :)

Lake Mead on the other hand, was built with the dam.

And as I understand it...the water that would normally be diverted from the Colorado River to Lake Mead has been diverted instead to take care of California.

I believe there is some kind of tri-state committee of Nev, Cali, and Arizona that makes that decision?

Nice pictures but it is pretty wild just how much it dropped

That and then water to the population in Southern California.

It just doesn't rain here - at least not very often.

What's really really sad is I figured I would share the laugh with someone. Sent them a link to the video. A minute later I get this reply "I stopped it. Can't handle the screaming."

Just fucking kill me. That was his entire act!

Incredibly depressing. It's like sending a link of jugglers and they say "too much throwing things in the air". fucking hell.

He was one of the greats. Saw him live back in the late 80's.

too many people living in the desert.

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And that big dam (the Hoover Dam) in those nice pictures can refill it any time the powers that be want to. But right now...that water is being sent to California. :(
And my water bill is high as hell here in Vegas.

Robbie, that water in lake mead is colorado river water, 7 states and mexico have rights to that water from the beginning.

The Colorado River Compact is a 1922 agreement among seven U.S. states in the basin of the Colorado River in the American Southwest governing the allocation of the water rights to the river's water among the parties of the interstate compact. The agreement was signed at a meeting at Bishop's Lodge, near Santa Fe, New Mexico, by representatives of the seven states the Colorado river and its tributaries pass through on the way to Mexico.


http://i.imgur.com/gKXn3jP.jpg

Colorado River Compact - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

i didnt catch a damn thing over there. black canyon lake i can catch trout all day. trout corn and taters

Actually, I read that there's a business opportunity here. Someone somewhere (from Canada maybe) is exploring the idea of building water pipelines into places like California and Las Vegas.

That really wouldn't surprise me, actually. I'm sure it's been looked at.

Are you serious?




I bet you were teachers pet, I mean the shit you say just blows me away

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He's a veritable fountain of mind-expanding knowledge.

why do u think cali put the watering lawn restrictions dumb ass. they have lots of what fuking tool????

you are a fuking old ass tool. its not rocket science you are just stupid

Hi Crocket -

I saw a documentary on this recently, and Vice did a good report on it too. It's pretty scary. Do you still live there or were you just visiting when you took those pics? Regardless, it's pretty sad to see what is happening in Texas. Good luck...

Thanks. I couldn't remember the stuff they were telling us on the Dam tour. I knew it was something like that.

Back when that was hammered out...I don't think the entire state of Nevada had the population of Las Vegas. So they didn't see the need to allocate much water.

If you've never been to lake meade before, it's really worth checking out. A few years ago I was visiting friends in Las Vegas and we went to the Hoover Damn first (Amazing!), and then later that day we went boating and swimming in the lake. The thing that hit me the most were the crazy high red cliffs. I felt like I was swimming on mars.

Yes, it's absolutely beautiful. Completely man-made (even that scenery because those vivid colors are revealed from where the place was dynamited to create the lake and the dam uncovering all those beautiful layers).

The first time I was there was Jan. of 2000. And I drove over the dam coming into Vegas at night.
As I looked around myself I kept thinking "This place was built by extra-terrestrials" lol

Nothing like it can even BE built now because of ecological concerns. blah-blah-blah.

But it's definitely one of the man-made wonders of the world.

Ouch, you really got me there.

Insulted by a barely-functioning, illiterate 'tard.

and there reasons for it are ?
fracking ?
excessive water consumption ?
exploiting environment for money by various ways ?

yes, they are changing out the turbines

article here

aerial pic my bf took 6 months ago

http://www.cbbw.net/media/2015/05/IMG_4232.jpeg

I was in a vineyard recently & there was no drought. It's politics.
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I just looked at that article.
WTF?

It says that Lake Mead's water level is affecting the ability of the Dam to generate electricity.

Uhmmm...HELLO! The Hoover Dam generates electricity from damming up the Colorado River NOT Lake Mead.

Lake Mead is a man-made lake that is a byproduct of The Hoover Dam. It's used for water in Vegas and recreation. Not to "generate electricity" like that article says. lol

There is a lot of people living around there, and they need water. They will need to get it from somewhere else. Lake Mead is artificial source of water too, Nevada is desert, originally, especially around there.

people need water and Nevada is a desert. got it.

i chortled. :1orglaugh

I was watching the local news at noon here today in Vegas.

They did a story on how Lake Mead is getting lower and that the allocation for Nevada from the Colorado River is about to be cut even more.
They said that could very well lead to water shortages here by 2017.

Serious stuff huh?

Then they suddenly smiled and announced the headlining acts for this year's "Life Is Beautiful" music festival in Downtown Vegas! lol

"We are running out of water...but here's the good news! We're bringing in lots more tourists!" lol