Watering golf courses is very important

@leonewest2239

2 жыл бұрын

Of course - to the “ chosen “ few

I remember living in Yuma, Arizona USA in the late 1950s and there was water in the Colorado River all year round! We actually went fishing in the river in Yuma! When I returned for a visit in the mid-1970s, the river bed was a dry wash!

Water is the magical ingredient for life and the survival of humanity.

When they get summer thunderstorms the delta gets water the life which is under the sand hasn't waited 20 years they come out every year

No country has the right to deny the country down stream their water.

@jessepugh2930

5 жыл бұрын

In Russia, water is privilege.

@blumie006

4 жыл бұрын

Yes they do they can do whatever they want they can even divert the rivers if they want

@PlaynBass

4 жыл бұрын

Since when has the USA ever really cared about the rights of other countries?

@GoGoPooerRangers

3 жыл бұрын

@@PlaynBass you can find America's faults but to make a generalized statement that's just factually wrong screams contempt for a country that also does good. Almost every country has its good and bad aspects, China built a dam that cuts the flow of water down south east asian countries. Recently 4 billion was given into covax, and billions more to smaller countries...much more has been done, Google is free. People need to quit being willfully ignorant.

@gdb5448

2 жыл бұрын

@@PlaynBass ...more accurately, when has ANY country really cared about the rights of other countries. You should study history sometime, you'll see how EVERYBODY has done bad things, and a lot worse things than America has ever done.

I care about the delta. I pray every day that humanity finds our way through the fog of ignorance and that we remember our place within the web of life. Once that happens humanity will become the best thing that ever happened to the Earth. Our ability to foster regeneration is unparalleled by any other species. The Earth’s regenerative powers are incredible.

build pipelines and canals from the midwest.once it gets to the great divide it will find its way to phoenix area taking a lot of need off colorado river water.we always are flooding at the missouri and mississippi rivers

Mexico needs to get started on major permaculture projects it's about time

I learn deltas pleteu and the isthmus and the codorado river in school thank you! love by sean

It’s been 5 years

@jayferrell2760

2 жыл бұрын

Water shortage drought

My daughter's idea is to pump the spring rains/floods, from the midwest, to the west. If we can pump oil, we can pump water. When the rains come & they become a problem, we simply turn on the pumps & the water goes west into the dry areas. It is also Fresh Water, not Salt Water. Floods create billions & billions in losses. Just a few billion & that problem could be history. NOTE, If a water pipe leaks, it doesn't destroy the environment. The pumps can use the same flow, to help them run.... with electricity manufactured by moving water.

@PlaynBass

4 жыл бұрын

Your daughter is a very smart and perceptive girl! I imagined a series of connected reservoirs, all powered by wind and solar. When the water is higher in the midwest, pump it up to the higher ground to the next reservoir using solar and wind power. During the nighttime, the water can be let out to flow down to the net lower reservoir to generate power from the pumped water storage. This way, solar and wind can generate and store excess energy in the water using this "gravity" battery! If needed, the water could even be pumped into the Colorado River watershed so that it could be used to make up for low snowpacks in dry years.

@SyrianApostate

Жыл бұрын

I don't about using the flow of the pumped water to generate electricity to pump the water.. that seems like a free energy fallacy. You can't create energy. The generated power will be have an equal loss in the flow

Why not feed the river with desalination plants from the Pacific? Restore the water table that has been destroyed by overpopulation and unsustainable farming techniques. It would do wonders for the environment, and prevent fires.

@PlaynBass

4 жыл бұрын

Desalination plants are enormously expensive, and they are never enough. the problem is in the way people treat the soil, which is where the water is stored in a way that it can be used by plants ALL of the time (and it isn't necessary to pump it anywhere!). Water stored in the ground is filtered and reused many times by means of the short water cycle, and the filtered and cleaned water eventually ends up being fed thru springs back into the rives, without all the silt that occurs when the ground is left bare. Look up regenerative Agriculture. It's more powerful than most people would even guess!

@PlaynBass

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nathan-xr4gv Desalination uses resources as a band-aid but does not address the CAUSE, which is the destruction of the coastal trees. And the native ground covers in every econiche on the planet. We humans are literally eating the planet to death with our unwise resource use choices.

So sad

The water table would be depleted even without drought due to the massive draw compared to 1900

We need to do more research on cloud minding find a way to force it to rain there to bring water level up. With all technology we have should be a way some how force it to rain there.

Problem is the flow of the Colorado River has been greatly overestimated.

Can't make water flow if you don't have any Rainfall in the southwest has been horrible for 30 years

@orgami100

6 жыл бұрын

If the Colorado was not dammed up it would probably flow every year even with the current conditions..

@jondavidbristow9819

6 жыл бұрын

Jason Wilson actually the outflows of Hoover and Glen Canyon dams are usually higher than the inflow that's both lakes are extremely low and Mead could be at dead pool level by 2021 which will be bad especially for Vegas

@orgami100

6 жыл бұрын

Jondavid Bristow - assuming then that agreement between the states is fixed not varible depending on the inflow of the Colorado it will end up a Deadpool within a few years under present climate conditions.. If someone lives besides a river, it varies from year to year depending on the wetness of the seasons draw out limited amounts depending on the rivers level..

@PlaynBass

4 жыл бұрын

The problem is that agricultural methods have produced heat islands that prevent the ocean's moisture from reaching further inland all year round. If regenerative agriculture was used, the plants would cool the air and the ground and the transpiration would put enough moisture into the air to restore the rainfall because the small water cycle would work again. The small water recycles moisture over small regions, just like the large water cycle moves water around the entire planet. It's the same process that allows the Amazon rain forest to make its own rain. We did not know that leaving the ground bare over half of the year was causing the land to dry up! But now we know that using cover crops and regenerative agricultural methods, that this small water cycle can be restored. Unfortunately, humans have now cut down so much of the Amazon Rain Forest that it is losing its ability to create its own rain. And this is all done so that humans can eat more meat than they really need to, just to make more profits for the meat growers.

@dzelpwr

2 жыл бұрын

@@jondavidbristow9819 prescient words... we see where Lake Mead is at now... Although the Southwest also looks like the last month of monsoon rains had been much better than recent years. Here's to hoping that makes a dent.

This is a good example of America and its greed. If the delta was part of USA the condition would have been different. It was a bout time.

my cat drowned in this river and I fed it to him. he's ded now help ima sad.

What if Colorado put a dam in, why should Colorado deplete their resources because the west won't work on desalination plants,

@PlaynBass

4 жыл бұрын

If people didn't waste so much of the rain that does fall, there would be no droughts! Human activities (such as irrigated and synthetically-fertilized agriculture), paved cities (heat-islands), and channeling the rivers are the main causes of water shortages. These are all things that we humans COULD fix if a few people weren't so greedy and foolish about how water and the soil are treated (and used).