at Glen Canyon Dam, rural electric cooperatives, cities and tribal utilities would be forced to seek more expensive options.in Lake Powell but warned that Lake Mead water levels would drop.
Bureau officials use the image of pouring tea from one cup to another to describe how water from Rocky Mountain snowmelt is captured in Lake Powell, then released downriver through the Grand Canyon to Lake Mead. About 70% is allocated for irrigation, sustaining a $15 billion-a-year agricultural industry that supplies 90% of U.S. winter vegetables.The two lakes, combined, were at 92% capacity in 1999, Bunk noted. Today, they are at 26%.
This year’s meeting of water recipients begins Wednesday at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. The event theme, “A New Century for the Colorado River Compact,” marks 100 years since a 1922 interstate agreement divvied water shares among interests in the seven states now home to 40 million people and millions of farmed acres.
“The ongoing drought is a stark reminder that water conservation is not just smart planning but an absolute necessity to save the life of the Colorado River,” Amelia Flores, chairwoman of Colorado River Indian Tribes, said ahead of the event. The tribal reservation in western Arizona includes more than 110 miles of Colorado River shoreline.
Little late for concerns.🙄🙄
Is that a photo of Lake Mead near Vegas?
This is why no aliens have visited…. We’re not intelligent life 70% water can’t figure how to use it cheap
Water is the new oil.