Doom On: Lake Mead Down To 39% Full

"e white band left on the lake's rocky banks by minerals in the receding water now stretches more than 130 feet below a high-water mark last reached in 2000. And as the reservoir continues to ebb, water managers from across the region have begun negotiating steps they could take jointly to avert a serious shortage that would trigger cutbacks in water deliveries to Arizona, Nevada and Mexico."


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, miss Vegas, when I used to go to Vegas, I always said, wake me up when we are over lake mead, miss those days

cut back on Bellagio water fountain?

double doom on



"But the water level of Lake Mead behind the dam that straddles Arizona and Nevada has been in a steady decline and is already affecting electricity production at the man-made wonder, which was both the largest concrete structure ever built and the largest hydro plant in the world when it was turned on in 1936.

As a result, each of the power plant's 17 generating units with a nameplate capacity of 2,074 megawatts was derated in June; the current capacity is 1,592 MW and is projected to decline later this year. So the dam mostly provides power only during periods of peak demand, according to Mark Cook, engineering group supervisor at the Hoover Dam. "We pretty much shut down at night."



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This is MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR! The southwest is in serious trouble along with the rest of our country. The pic's and stories I'm reading says to me Las Vegas has 2-4 years left.

And Vegas is a particularly bad place for water wasting and over-consumption. Between the hotels that wash hundreds of thousands of sheets each day and visitors and residents flushing toilets, taking showers, etc combined with the large pools and decorative fountains like the one at the Bellagio, much water is used and wasted each day.

seriously.
shut off the water in vegas for 24 hours.
lake mead will fill up again.

and maybe stop using all the water for FRACKING.
just stop it.
we need water not earthquakes.

the Hilton had a nice course

That might help, but the overall water consumption in Vegas is a much much larger issue.

Last Edited by Doomish on 07/16/2014 08:01 PM

nothing to see here, not to mention only one of the two intake pumps is working which supplies water to the 2 million people who live here. These pumps are also known to fail from time to time, which is why there is two of them, well you can guess what happened to the intake of one of the pumps, its on dry earth now, and a new pump isn't scheduled to be complete for quite some years from now...

Vegas is a vortex, a valley designed to suck money back into the fed who control this state...

I was born here, but now Ive been thinking the weather in Seattle and colorado isn't so bad!

I bet all those advanced civilizations that left so much in the southwest thought the water would last forever, it looks like they had good climate for a long time, then bam, no more.

That's why they call it a desert

Being from vegas I know the simplest solution. That's have California get there grubby dick beaters out of our lake and open some desalination plans so they can drink there own water.

this is true, L.A, , getting lake mead water

things are gonna get ugly when the restrictions get going

It's time to stop all water deliveries to Mexico, and annex British Columbia.

Problem solved.

You know 90% of the water used for utilities in the hotels is recycled on site vegas is extremely water efficient, we are the ones feeling the effects of this drought and have made strides in water conservation technology. I don't think you should belittle las vegas's plight over a little fountain that also recycles its own water. California just needs to get there own water.

Wow. Sensitive much?

Where I am in California, we do have our own water. So please chill the fuck out. You whine, then accuse. Nice tactic.

I do believe that lack of water is going to be a huge crisis very soon for many areas

It will be a crisis for about three days , then the irritating pissant people will die off.

Like you are going to escape the traffic jams , empty gas stations etc and hoof it out of there LOL.

The elite will be long gone by the time it is a crisis

Of course because people cant survive with out water.We will be left to die in the dust and it wont take long.

Oh look a "special" breed of idiot.

thanks for pin

California says if Nevada has a Milkshake, and California has a staw, the straw reaches from wayyyyyy over hereeee, and I drink your milk shake, I drink it up!
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39%

that is very very bad.

WTF??????????

We're giving Mexico our water? Cut those assholes OFF!