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The Western Water Crisis

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I feel like we need Sam Kinison to yell "YOU LIVE IN THE FUCKING DESERT!"

‘All bad options’ as Biden administration faces Western water crisis
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/1 ... s-00051235

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Which Great Lake state is going to be the one to cave and allow a pipeline to the west? Fuck you Illinois. I know it will be you.
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CHEEZY17 wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 7:59 pm I feel like we need Sam Kinison to yell "YOU LIVE IN THE FUCKING DESERT!"

‘All bad options’ as Biden administration faces Western water crisis
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/1 ... s-00051235

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Which Great Lake state is going to be the one to cave and allow a pipeline to the west? Fuck you Illinois. I know it will be you.
There will likely be more desalinization plants, although the surfriders foundation fights them because it affects ocean life. More toilet to tap(look it up if you don't know) is likely as well.
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B-Tender wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 8:01 pm There will likely be more desalinization plants, although the surfriders foundation fights them because it affects ocean life. More toilet to tap(look it up if you don't know) is likely as well.
Cool.
From Toilet to Tap
Facility uses sophisticated technology to transform wastewater into clean water.

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CHEEZY17 wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 7:59 pm I feel like we need Sam Kinison to yell "YOU LIVE IN THE FUCKING DESERT!"

‘All bad options’ as Biden administration faces Western water crisis
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/1 ... s-00051235

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Which Great Lake state is going to be the one to cave and allow a pipeline to the west? Fuck you Illinois. I know it will be you.
Suddenly the left decides they like pipelines.
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A disastrous megaflood is coming to California, experts say, and it could be the most expensive natural disaster in history

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/08/12/weat ... index.html
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I read an article about that today. But it led me to another article that was talking about how the "deserts" in the western US were having the biggest monsoon season in 20 years. flooding streets, casinos being flooded, etc. Las Vegas was the city they were reporting on. Anyway, I was reading it about it to find out if it had helped Lake Meade, etc. It sounded so catastrophic. Turns out they had about 1/2 inch of rain. And all total this "monsoon season" they have had about 2 inches of rain. The level of Lake Meade is down like 190 feet. It has risen 1 inch in the past few days.

that was the most deceiving headline I have read ever.
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Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 1:11 am I read an article about that today. But it led me to another article that was talking about how the "deserts" in the western US were having the biggest monsoon season in 20 years. flooding streets, casinos being flooded, etc. Las Vegas was the city they were reporting on. Anyway, I was reading it about it to find out if it had helped Lake Meade, etc. It sounded so catastrophic. Turns out they had about 1/2 inch of rain. And all total this "monsoon season" they have had about 2 inches of rain. The level of Lake Meade is down like 190 feet. It has risen 1 inch in the past few days.

that was the most deceiving headline I have read ever.
Fascinating
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saltydog wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 1:42 am
Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 1:11 am I read an article about that today. But it led me to another article that was talking about how the "deserts" in the western US were having the biggest monsoon season in 20 years. flooding streets, casinos being flooded, etc. Las Vegas was the city they were reporting on. Anyway, I was reading it about it to find out if it had helped Lake Meade, etc. It sounded so catastrophic. Turns out they had about 1/2 inch of rain. And all total this "monsoon season" they have had about 2 inches of rain. The level of Lake Meade is down like 190 feet. It has risen 1 inch in the past few days.

that was the most deceiving headline I have read ever.
Fascinating
i'm not the least bit surprised that you can't find anything of interest in that.
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Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 1:11 am I read an article about that today. But it led me to another article that was talking about how the "deserts" in the western US were having the biggest monsoon season in 20 years. flooding streets, casinos being flooded, etc. Las Vegas was the city they were reporting on. Anyway, I was reading it about it to find out if it had helped Lake Meade, etc. It sounded so catastrophic. Turns out they had about 1/2 inch of rain. And all total this "monsoon season" they have had about 2 inches of rain. The level of Lake Meade is down like 190 feet. It has risen 1 inch in the past few days.

that was the most deceiving headline I have read ever.
Over how many acres was that 1"?
When you consider the watershed that feed Lake Meade and how dry tit was when it started to rain, to raise the level 1""it rained a bunch.
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Deathproof wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 12:31 am
CHEEZY17 wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 7:59 pm I feel like we need Sam Kinison to yell "YOU LIVE IN THE FUCKING DESERT!"

‘All bad options’ as Biden administration faces Western water crisis
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/1 ... s-00051235

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Which Great Lake state is going to be the one to cave and allow a pipeline to the west? Fuck you Illinois. I know it will be you.
Suddenly the left decides they like pipelines.
:lol:
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A Meteorologist from the University of Reading shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a drought can be dangerous and might lead to flash floods. click link to see the video

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a ... 0svav1.mp4
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Antknot wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 2:04 am
Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 1:11 am I read an article about that today. But it led me to another article that was talking about how the "deserts" in the western US were having the biggest monsoon season in 20 years. flooding streets, casinos being flooded, etc. Las Vegas was the city they were reporting on. Anyway, I was reading it about it to find out if it had helped Lake Meade, etc. It sounded so catastrophic. Turns out they had about 1/2 inch of rain. And all total this "monsoon season" they have had about 2 inches of rain. The level of Lake Meade is down like 190 feet. It has risen 1 inch in the past few days.

that was the most deceiving headline I have read ever.
Over how many acres was that 1"?
When you consider the watershed that feed Lake Meade and how dry tit was when it started to rain, to raise the level 1""it rained a bunch.
Well, lake Meade has a surface area of around 250 sq miles. a square mile is 640 acres. So, for it to have raised that lake level 1" then it would have had to rain 1/2 inch over a 500 square mile area. That's an area about 22 miles x 22 miles.
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Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 10:59 pm
Antknot wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 2:04 am
Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 1:11 am I read an article about that today. But it led me to another article that was talking about how the "deserts" in the western US were having the biggest monsoon season in 20 years. flooding streets, casinos being flooded, etc. Las Vegas was the city they were reporting on. Anyway, I was reading it about it to find out if it had helped Lake Meade, etc. It sounded so catastrophic. Turns out they had about 1/2 inch of rain. And all total this "monsoon season" they have had about 2 inches of rain. The level of Lake Meade is down like 190 feet. It has risen 1 inch in the past few days.

that was the most deceiving headline I have read ever.
Over how many acres was that 1"?
When you consider the watershed that feed Lake Meade and how dry tit was when it started to rain, to raise the level 1""it rained a bunch.
Well, lake Meade has a surface area of around 250 sq miles. a square mile is 640 acres. So, for it to have raised that lake level 1" then it would have had to rain 1/2 inch over a 500 square mile area. That's an area about 22 miles x 22 miles.
So 13,333.33 acre feet of rain
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Antknot wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:35 am
Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 10:59 pm
Antknot wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 2:04 am
Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 1:11 am I read an article about that today. But it led me to another article that was talking about how the "deserts" in the western US were having the biggest monsoon season in 20 years. flooding streets, casinos being flooded, etc. Las Vegas was the city they were reporting on. Anyway, I was reading it about it to find out if it had helped Lake Meade, etc. It sounded so catastrophic. Turns out they had about 1/2 inch of rain. And all total this "monsoon season" they have had about 2 inches of rain. The level of Lake Meade is down like 190 feet. It has risen 1 inch in the past few days.

that was the most deceiving headline I have read ever.
Over how many acres was that 1"?
When you consider the watershed that feed Lake Meade and how dry tit was when it started to rain, to raise the level 1""it rained a bunch.
Well, lake Meade has a surface area of around 250 sq miles. a square mile is 640 acres. So, for it to have raised that lake level 1" then it would have had to rain 1/2 inch over a 500 square mile area. That's an area about 22 miles x 22 miles.
So 13,333.33 acre feet of rain
is it unusual in other parts of the country for a 1/2 inch rain to cover an area larger than 22 miles by 22 miles? I mean, that's 1/2 the size of Dallas County.
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Animal wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 1:03 am
Antknot wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:35 am
Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 10:59 pm
Antknot wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 2:04 am
Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 1:11 am I read an article about that today. But it led me to another article that was talking about how the "deserts" in the western US were having the biggest monsoon season in 20 years. flooding streets, casinos being flooded, etc. Las Vegas was the city they were reporting on. Anyway, I was reading it about it to find out if it had helped Lake Meade, etc. It sounded so catastrophic. Turns out they had about 1/2 inch of rain. And all total this "monsoon season" they have had about 2 inches of rain. The level of Lake Meade is down like 190 feet. It has risen 1 inch in the past few days.

that was the most deceiving headline I have read ever.
Over how many acres was that 1"?
When you consider the watershed that feed Lake Meade and how dry tit was when it started to rain, to raise the level 1""it rained a bunch.
Well, lake Meade has a surface area of around 250 sq miles. a square mile is 640 acres. So, for it to have raised that lake level 1" then it would have had to rain 1/2 inch over a 500 square mile area. That's an area about 22 miles x 22 miles.
So 13,333.33 acre feet of rain
is it unusual in other parts of the country for a 1/2 inch rain to cover an area larger than 22 miles by 22 miles? I mean, that's 1/2 the size of Dallas County.
I know here in Michigan if a heavy storm blows through we can get .5 to over an inch of rain and they can stretch across multiple counties. Thats a shit load of water though and it causes problems when we get that much in short time.
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Animal wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 1:03 am
Antknot wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:35 am
Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 10:59 pm
Antknot wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 2:04 am
Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 1:11 am I read an article about that today. But it led me to another article that was talking about how the "deserts" in the western US were having the biggest monsoon season in 20 years. flooding streets, casinos being flooded, etc. Las Vegas was the city they were reporting on. Anyway, I was reading it about it to find out if it had helped Lake Meade, etc. It sounded so catastrophic. Turns out they had about 1/2 inch of rain. And all total this "monsoon season" they have had about 2 inches of rain. The level of Lake Meade is down like 190 feet. It has risen 1 inch in the past few days.

that was the most deceiving headline I have read ever.
Over how many acres was that 1"?
When you consider the watershed that feed Lake Meade and how dry tit was when it started to rain, to raise the level 1""it rained a bunch.
Well, lake Meade has a surface area of around 250 sq miles. a square mile is 640 acres. So, for it to have raised that lake level 1" then it would have had to rain 1/2 inch over a 500 square mile area. That's an area about 22 miles x 22 miles.
So 13,333.33 acre feet of rain
is it unusual in other parts of the country for a 1/2 inch rain to cover an area larger than 22 miles by 22 miles? I mean, that's 1/2 the size of Dallas County.
Somewhere in the dark recesses of my memory is that acre-feet is the term used to describe the volume of rainfall.
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Antknot wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 1:16 pm
Animal wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 1:03 am
Antknot wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:35 am
Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 10:59 pm
Antknot wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 2:04 am
Animal wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 1:11 am I read an article about that today. But it led me to another article that was talking about how the "deserts" in the western US were having the biggest monsoon season in 20 years. flooding streets, casinos being flooded, etc. Las Vegas was the city they were reporting on. Anyway, I was reading it about it to find out if it had helped Lake Meade, etc. It sounded so catastrophic. Turns out they had about 1/2 inch of rain. And all total this "monsoon season" they have had about 2 inches of rain. The level of Lake Meade is down like 190 feet. It has risen 1 inch in the past few days.

that was the most deceiving headline I have read ever.
Over how many acres was that 1"?
When you consider the watershed that feed Lake Meade and how dry tit was when it started to rain, to raise the level 1""it rained a bunch.
Well, lake Meade has a surface area of around 250 sq miles. a square mile is 640 acres. So, for it to have raised that lake level 1" then it would have had to rain 1/2 inch over a 500 square mile area. That's an area about 22 miles x 22 miles.
So 13,333.33 acre feet of rain
is it unusual in other parts of the country for a 1/2 inch rain to cover an area larger than 22 miles by 22 miles? I mean, that's 1/2 the size of Dallas County.
Somewhere in the dark recesses of my memory is that acre-feet is the term used to describe the volume of rainfall.
Yes, they measure large volumes of water (lakes, etc) in acre-feet. But, last May Dallas county got about 6 inches of rain in one day. In terms of "acre feet" of rain, that would be about 110,000 acre feet. in one day.
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Gotta keep those golf courses green!
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Damn straight.

That golf course goes belly up and here comes the housing projects.
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saltydog wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 10:08 pm Gotta keep those golf courses green!
Any green space is better than any building as far as climate change is involved
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Surprisingly solid video on the pipeline theory. I didnt know that the Great Lakes states and Canada have signed an agreement all but eliminating the possibility of a pipeline to the west. Cost and other factors mitigate the chances as well.

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There’s plenty of water for people in northern and southern California. But there isn’t enough for growing almonds and cotton. when it comes to water gravity is not an issue. It always flows towards money.
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Charliesheen wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 1:40 am There’s plenty of water for people in northern and southern California. But there isn’t enough for growing almonds and cotton. when it comes to water gravity is not an issue. It always flows towards money.
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I drink tap water.
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I want to know how much of the Great Lakes water will my retarded state flush out into the Pacific Ocean to save the Delta Smelt?
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