Biden admin announces 'historic' plan
to reduce western states' water supply
Fox News,
by
Thomas Catenacci
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
5/22/2023 6:31:54 PM
The Biden administration announced Monday that seven western states had reached an agreement to conserve critical Colorado River system water supplies amid severe drought conditions. The agreement — reached by the so-called Lower Basin states of Arizona, California and Nevada — ensures that at least 3 million acre-feet (maf), or 978 billion gallons, of Colorado River water supplies are conserved by 2027, according to the Department of the Interior (DOI) which has worked with states to address shortages. Under the plan, at least half of that amount will be conserved by 2025.
OP, it's Biden , disaster is a given.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
chance_232 5/22/2023 6:44:15 PM (No. 1475296)
RE # OP.......agreed. We have a drought, diminishing water supplies and a growing population......so lets just "conserve" water. All paid for through the "Inflation Reduction Act."
A whole lot of this could have been avoided had California better captured run off water and built de-salination plants. California has already wiped-out Owens Lake. Of course we know where this is heading. Water pipelines from the East Coast and Great Lakes. Again, to be paid for by the US tax-payers.
Can we talk secession yet??
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 5/22/2023 7:00:46 PM (No. 1475307)
In my 3rd year of college at a small Catholic university in a large southwestern state, a very wise biology prof told a few of us sitting around drinking coffee that the next great Civil War would be fought over water. Thus was in 1973. Around here we depend on the Brazos, Trinity, Colorado, and Rio Grande to water our crops and livestock. Water rights get pretty touchy. I think he was onto something.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Citoyen 5/22/2023 7:05:45 PM (No. 1475309)
FTA: While Upper Basin states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming mainly receive water from smaller rivers that branch off the Colorado River, the Lower Basin states largely receive water pooled in Lake Powell, a man-made reservoir along the Utah-Arizona border, and Lake Mead, a reservoir along the Nevada-Arizona border.
The "smaller rivers" do not branch off the Colorado River. They feed the Colorado River. While it is true that the Upper Basin states do not have major population centers that rely on the Colorado River they do have water rights. In southwestern Utah, in the Mojave Desert, there is one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the United States. The state is looking to use some of its Colorado River share for that area.
Las Vegas has attained significant water saving. California, not so much. Not sure about Phoenix.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 5/22/2023 7:57:06 PM (No. 1475342)
How to starve everyone of food, while starving them of energy, too.
They want us dead, or at least in extreme poverty.
Remember, they see "Hunger Games" as a plan.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mean Gene 5/22/2023 8:01:06 PM (No. 1475348)
In the spirit of, "you first," I suggest the feds be the first ones to lose ALL their water supplies from these soiurces.
NSA data center in Draper, Utah, uses over a couple million foot-acres of water a DAY.
Cut it off.
The FBI has been illegally using it to go after non-biden supporters for over a year anyway.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 5/22/2023 8:04:36 PM (No. 1475353)
OK, no more vegetables from California.
And NO lawns.
Only dried fruit!
Stillsuits!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 5/22/2023 8:40:30 PM (No. 1475370)
#7, the Left has already destroyed the Central Valley.
I remember the avocados, white grapes, other vegetables, gorgeous, from the once-upon-a-time Golden State.
They dump river waters into the ocean. This isn’t environmentalism, it’s arrogant human manipulation, different than cultivation.
The historical record across the globe shows our forebears trying to make good use of the resources, sometimes even successfully.
GOD gives us guidelines for letting the earth rest, rotating crops.
We’re fallible. And climate radicals also are mortals and fallible, the kind stemming from supreme arrogance… they would be gods, just like every other fascist totalitarian.
I understand that this past seasons CA has almost too much. Some herr could fill us in!
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Meanwhile, Cali's governor Newscum is allowing millions of gallons of water to simply vanish into the ocean rather than put it into reservoirs like any intelligent governor would have done in years past. I would not be surprised if this is yet another insidious attack on our food suppliers like farmers and ranchers.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
zoidberg 5/22/2023 9:00:02 PM (No. 1475387)
Go East, young man.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/22/2023 9:34:42 PM (No. 1475409)
What has Governor Hair Gel said about this idea?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 5/22/2023 9:45:28 PM (No. 1475415)
Here in Las Vegas we have cut back a lot in watering. We can only water yards on certain days, and almost every one has converted real grass to artificial grass. We’ve had more rain lately, so that has helped.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/22/2023 10:28:29 PM (No. 1475431)
This article appeared some years ago. Worth a visit by the California bashers who may never have thought about this:
https://slate.com/technology/2013/07/california-grows-all-of-our-fruits-and-vegetables-what-would-we-eat-without-the-state.html
and there is this:
https://www.farmprogress.com/tree-nuts/what-happens-if-us-loses-california-food-production-
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/22/2023 11:05:59 PM (No. 1475446)
This is another 'Sounds Good on Paper' ideas.
Wait for it, Water Rationing on a good day, NO WATER on bad days.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/22/2023 11:10:18 PM (No. 1475449)
Sounds like biden the cheater and his fellow commies have already war-gamed this. That AI algorithm must be working.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
paral04 5/23/2023 8:20:09 AM (No. 1475594)
I guess he doesn't want any votes from those people who will be affected. The man is bat sh** crazy and worse dangerous.
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This feels like a disaster in the making