Nice to hear the good news (for a change). I'll remain cautiously optimistic for maybe another near record breaking winter....

@azcharlie2009

Жыл бұрын

The good news is there lots of water... The bad news is the government has to let most of it out to go to California.

Thanks for the update.👍🤠

It would be awsome to see a actual time-lapse of the increase of the water levels is this possible

@cpcattin

Жыл бұрын

Great ? Lapse ?

@bob494949

Жыл бұрын

Punctuation, anyone?

@pieterpost563

Жыл бұрын

@@cpcattin i am from the netherlands sorry if it's not 100% ok 😅👍🏻

It has been raining a lot in CO and Utah.

We are 68% through the Water Year. Lake Mead so far has released only 56.75% of the minimum legal requirement of 9 million acre feet. It is obligated to deliver another ~3.9 maf downstream by September 30th. That is 115 days from now. Therein lies the problem. The vast majority of Mead's inflow comes via Glen Canyon dam. Lake Powell will very soon start releasing huge amounts of water to cover the defecit at Mead. Upstream of Powell: Flaming Gorge on the Green River has just quadrupled its outflow after banking all spring; Blue Mesa, a smaller reservoir, on the Gunnison is still banking water and rising by a foot per day having risen 56 feet since November; Navajo on the San Juan is now dropping slightly and has a below average inflow for this date whilst releasing pretty much double the average. This all suggests to me that BuWreck is giving Lake Powell a final boost before they increase the outflow down to Mead. They must be praying for another exceptionally wet winter 2023/24. My guess is that by April 2024 Mead will be back down to 1045 and Powell down at 3540, just 20 feet above its record low.

@williamscoggin1509

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, this video is a waste of your and everyone elses time.

@erikh9991

Жыл бұрын

@@williamscoggin1509and that part about continuing to conservative is all bull too. We should be but they won’t.

@DaveFiggley

Жыл бұрын

@@williamscoggin1509 Ha. This robot just churns out the data that anyone can look up for themselves. It then adds a load of, out of date, stock video footage. Still, I clicked didn't I? I try to interpret that data to see what is actually happening and what could happen in the cominig months.

@pauledwards1157

Жыл бұрын

Navajo’s inflow is 300-500 cfs MORE than average for this time of year. There’s still tons of snowpack feeding Navajo.

Why do you say meteoric? It is less than 35% capacity ?

It take no effort for the lakes to rise due to snow melt. The decision to regulate the flow of water in the Colorado was made in 1963.

The utah Rockies too.

where do you think the strategic water releases are coming from?.....farther upstream....which is draining those reservoirs of much needed supply...ie: Flaming Gorge on the Utah-Wyoming border

I bet the car washs are going well.

Gotta say, I've never seen a meteor rise.

@wildcard9724

Жыл бұрын

Astute observation!😉

This is what happens when they quit dumping water the way they were.

Hey what happened to all of the people going along with the sheep speak and saying this drought is from global warming or human caused climate change is this filling of the lake also due to the same exact thing?

@joechughtai3155

Жыл бұрын

I don't know why any politician would ever blame themselves for bad management when they could just blame good old climate change....

@CH-wm6wo

Жыл бұрын

@@joechughtai3155 well said The guberment is not a good faith player.

Perhaps a mega desalinization project (20m GPD) would provide an enduring solution. Yes, there are challenges associated with desalinization but those could be addressed.

@jamestucker8088

Жыл бұрын

LA uses 524 million gallons of water per day so this would be a drop in the bucket.

@NP-ej8hp

Жыл бұрын

@@jamestucker8088 James. Absolutely correct…..it wouldn’t be designed or intended to be a 1/1 solution but rather a stabilizing inject that would feed directly into the reservoir constellation as augmentation…in essence, it would be part of the “all of the above” approach combined with conservation measures.

@mikem488

Жыл бұрын

Desalination in San Diego is two and half time cost of Colorado river.

@NP-ej8hp

Жыл бұрын

@@mikem488 yes! Desalination is expensive…at the end of the day, it comes down to the best of the worst decisions based on needs vs wants. Absent large scale out migration, long term options are becoming less available. It would be nice if the CO River, Lakes Mead and Powell experienced sustained replenishment spanning at least 3 years. That said, I’d suggest the Western States take a ten year look in order to work long term solutions instead of depending on short term phenomena like repeated high precipitation events.

@NP-ej8hp

Жыл бұрын

@Ching Vang Ching. I believe the “all of the above” approach is probably the most effective. This means conservation, production, building codes, population density, and aggressive water management. But yes, at the tactical level large scale recreational irrigation could be addressed as a small component.

Bull hockey, all lakes always go up in early and late spring. Let's come back and see what's going on at the end of summer and into fall. I hate waste of time videos. 😠 👎🏻

Please quit lefty preaching and just give the facts. Your opinion is irritating in my opinion,lol