One example: The Colorado River level slowly getting lower. Sounds like this could affect food sources too because of lack of irrigation. Also they mention threats to major power generators on Lake Mead and Lake Powell. They inserted folks blaming "climate change" in the video. Well yes a changing climate causes lots of things, it has throughout all of time. Changing climates have flooded civilizations, dried out civilizations and covered them in sand. Long term changes. Regardless of its cause (which people like to argue about), it would be wise to somehow prepare for less water, less food and less power.
Nearly half the water that comes out of my tap is from the Colorado river. An equally large portion is from the Salt and Verde rivers. One of the nation's largest metropolitan areas is skating on thin ice, yet within a few miles from my house there are ducks, osprey, eagles, herons, egrets and even pelicans.
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They inserted folks blaming "climate change" in the video. Well yes a changing climate causes lots of things, it has throughout all of time.
Look up the Sinagua people.
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Eventually the ignorant politicians will finally realize that desalination is the best way to go. Even as a temporary basis until we have that much needed rainfall to refill the supply. Energy Recovery Inc. here in the Bay Area was one of the innovators of desalination. They had multiple plants all over the world providing clean water to millions of people. I don't understand the ignorance here in the U.S. You have a U.S based company that no one wants to use so they do all of their work overseas.
YES it is more expensive but it works.
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All of the coastal cities should be preparing by building desalination plants....But also, I was looking at the idea of the Mississippi basin flooding while the western states are in drought (Or vice-versa); Why not build an Aqueduct between the two regions and a large reservoir in between to store needed water?
Then again, I have been told that Man could never pull this kind of engineering off......Too expensive and complicated.....It would be like the Romans building aqueducts back 2000 years ago.....That would be crazy....right?
The Hohokam people lived in the Mesa area for nearly 1,500 years. Hohokam, (a Pima Indian word meaning ‘‘those who have disappeared’’), first appeared around 1 CE initially growing beans, squash, corn and cotton serving a very small population of less than one thousand. Around 600 CE, the Hohokam population grew too large for sustainable living. As the population grew further from the river, the Hohokam began to construct canals for irrigation. Using digging sticks, the Native Americans excavated 12-feet deep canals, fanning into a larger network of smaller canals.
The canals that we use here today are based on the ancient Hohokam system.
williegoat, Looks like those dang'd birds are drink'n up all your water.
Brian
Those birds are at the "Glendale Recharge Ponds" at the end of the canal. Their purpose is to recharge the groundwater and are only about five feet deep. They are about a mile west of the stadium.
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I like the idea of the desalinization plants, but wouldn't the outflow of very salty water cause problems in the area?
I suspect that the currents would carry the extra salty water elsewhere, and that it would potentially mix. But I remember reading somewhere about issues with the water being saltier, and creating a layer of extra salinized water that is a "dead zone" for life and doesn't mix as you would expect because of the specific gravity differences or something.
I don't know for sure, The Science™ is really hard to follow anymore since it's became so "settled".
I like the idea of the desalinization plants, but wouldn't the outflow of very salty water cause problems in the area?
I suspect that the currents would carry the extra salty water elsewhere, and that it would potentially mix. But I remember reading somewhere about issues with the water being saltier, and creating a layer of extra salinized water that is a "dead zone" for life and doesn't mix as you would expect because of the specific gravity differences or something.
I don't know for sure, The Science™ is really hard to follow anymore since it's became so "settled".
I know nothing about desalinization, but would it be worthwhile to make salt from the waste?
It might just be a Dandi idea.
(In the spring of 1930, Gandhi led a march to the village of Dandi on India's west coast to make salt from seawater, in an act of defiance against British imperialism.)
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In the Bay Area we have several square miles of Salt ponds to produce........SALT. So instead of evaporating water into the atmosphere so you can get salt, why not use desalination plants to give you....water AND Salt.....Makes sense (So that is the reason they won't do it)
All of the coastal cities should be preparing by building desalination plants....But also, I was looking at the idea of the Mississippi basin flooding while the western states are in drought (Or vice-versa); Why not build an Aqueduct between the two regions and a large reservoir in between to store needed water?
Then again, I have been told that Man could never pull this kind of engineering off......Too expensive and complicated.....It would be like the Romans building aqueducts back 2000 years ago.....That would be crazy....right?
Did you know that there are no large diameter pipelines carrying crude oil, diesel and gasoline from the Gulf Coast or West Texas over the Rocky Mountains to the Western states? Ever ask yourself why? Now, apply that answer to a product (water) that weighs considerably more than oil diesel, or gasoline.
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Desal water in Calif costs a average family of 5 about $2,200/year if all that family's water came from the desal plant. Desal plants are expensive to build, expensive to maintain, and expensive to operate, with electric power being the biggest cost, with RO membrane replacemnt being 2nd largest cost.
Gather 'round me people There's a story I would tell 'Bout a brave young Indian You should remember well From the land of the Pima Indian A proud and noble band Who farmed the Phoenix Valley In Arizona land Down the ditches a thousand years The waters grew Ira's peoples' crops 'Til the white man stole their water rights And the sparkling water stopped Now, Ira's folks were hungry And their land grew crops of weeds When war came, Ira volunteered And forgot the white man's greed
Desal water in Calif costs a average family of 5 about $2,200/year if all that family's water came from the desal plant. Desal plants are expensive to build, expensive to maintain, and expensive to operate, with electric power being the biggest cost, with RO membrane replacemnt being 2nd largest cost.
You're correct but in an emergency situation like this, they should be built and on standby until the next rainy season.....if we ever get a TRUE rainy season. Once reservoirs fill up from rainwater and we are out of the drought, the plants shut down until the next emergency.
Did you know that there are no large diameter pipelines carrying crude oil, diesel and gasoline from the Gulf Coast or West Texas over the Rocky Mountains to the Western states? Ever ask yourself why? Now, apply that answer to a product (water) that weighs considerably more than oil diesel, or gasoline.
Back in 1908 they built the Los Angeles Aqueduct from the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains over them to the LA basin.....They were able to get the water up and over via.......Gravity; The water going up the hill was pulled by the weight of the water dropping down the far side. Brilliant!
Side note; A flood washed out part of the aqueduct where (down low) it crossed a wash.....The suction in that section collapsed the iron tubing for miles. It was going to cost MILLIONS to go and replace all of that iron tubing (30' Diameter) but Mulholland (Who was the projects original engineer) came up with a better solution; He had the break fixed, and then filled the tube with water (shutting the valves at the far end) and then used the pumps at the front of the Aqueduct to pressurize the water, which expanded the iron tubing back out to almost original shape.
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