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@SDsailor7

Жыл бұрын

Any word when we can go back to washing our cars in the driveway? I am tired of taking it to the automated car wash to get a crappy wash. Thank you

@UtahDennis

Жыл бұрын

A great update and the video footage was terrific. One suggestion to add to future videos would be to include boat launch ramp conditions at the time of release.

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

@@SDsailor7 Yeah I gave up on that... never found a decent reliable one. Mobile detailers seem to be the way to go but that defeats the purpose because the water isn't reclaimed after. The no-driveway washing was more of just a suggestion from the SNWA. After seeing how the city is putting up luxury high-rises and a new baseball stadium though, we'll continue to wash sparingly in the drive. Least of any of these problems...

@davidpotts3844

Жыл бұрын

@@SDsailor7 Can't believe that you are more worried about washing your car than having water to drink. People are more concerned about water skiing than they are about having no water to drink. This is why the water is drying up zero regard for conservation

@jskyg68

Жыл бұрын

Hmm as crypto dies water levels start to rise again? I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

visited out west 2 times as a young man, 1980 and 1982, your shows keep the spark alive for a revisit in my retirement, thanx

@mojo.adventures

11 ай бұрын

The glory days!! That's great to hear, hope you make it back out soon 👍 The more I look at old photos of the waterski and speedboat competitions from the 80's the more I realize how much fun it must have been back then. So many people on the beaches and out on the water. Reminds us of Lake Havasu!

Very nice video my friend.. thanks for plugging @Crittercamera

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Yes Sir thank you for the footage! Should be sending some folks your way 😎

Very well done presentation! Thank you!!. Lovely looking lake. So clear and blue..

Everyone needs to participate. I added 360 gallons of rainwater storage. I use this water to water my trees. I have not used any public water on my trees since I believe November. It has been a great water year and I wish that I would have had more storage capacity. I am now down to 150 gallons. I am hoping that monsoons this year deliver more. Best Wishes to everyone.

@thetruth45678

Жыл бұрын

Rainwater is public water. Your storage isn't conserving anything.

@adamjankowski4315

Жыл бұрын

This may be illegal in some areas be careful

@tk9839

Жыл бұрын

@@thetruth45678 Solar is public energy which relieves the usage of the grid...so why not for rainwater does it not help slow down the shrinkage of Lake Mead?

@thetruth45678

Жыл бұрын

@@tk9839 The grid is not a pool of solar energy. Your argument is absurd. Fresh water is a finite cyclical resource. Any storage depletes the system by that amount. It doesn't matter if you take it from the ground or the sky, you're not conserving. What you store is no longer available until you consume it and put it back into circulation. There is no difference between scooping it out of a lake or capturing it from rainfall, except to provide you a false sense of virtue which isn't based on reality or any good deeds.

@SilverSeleucid

Жыл бұрын

@@adamjankowski4315 that is a myth, collecting rain water is not illegal

Another big hit! Congrats man!

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks!😎 Still recovering from last video I was thinking people had lost interest in the lake. Might catch ya down there sometime!👍

@RemoteTrooper

Жыл бұрын

@mojo.adventures Ha! KZread is unpredictable to say the least! I'm sure I'll see you around sometime 🤙

Thank you for all the updates. 👍👍

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

You bet! Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment ✌️

Lovely looking lake. So clear and blue.

@seeharvester

Жыл бұрын

Except for an occasional brown trout floating by.

@joshf-o6696

Жыл бұрын

@@seeharvester Floating?

Up here in northern AZ its barely crested a hundred. Nice change, and we definitely have had a larger amount of precipitation over a longer time this spring. Our reservoir is very high.

Thank you so much for putting out this video. It was beautiful, and I very much appreciated the extra information you gave. I'm born and raised in Las Vegas, and it's amazing how little I know about the lake. Again, I appreciate you giving your time, and I'll be watching for more. Take care

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel! Good to see other locals finding us 👍 Thank you for watching and stopping by to leave a comment!

Absolutely love your updates. I have your channel at the top of my list to check each week for the status of Lake Mead. Also, appreciate your updates on Lake Powell.

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! It's great to hear feedback like this. Appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment👍 We haven't been as active lately due to the day jobs so thank you for staying patient, we have loads of content in store!

Great report and great to see the waters rising. We were there in 2017 and it looked low then.

The water look so beautiful. Let hope and pray the water level keeps on rising!

@walterkersting9922

Жыл бұрын

Everyone thinks water is a matter of judging your neighbor for washing their car and keeping a garden when it is in fact a matter of prayer… To God the maker of water.

I drove across Hoover Dam years ago when Lake Mead was so full that they had to let the water go over the runaway bypass. It was like you're in Niagara Falls.

Good presentation

Nice report. Yes, let's see it. Planning a trip to LV and Hoover/ Lake Mead this fall. Glad to see things are looking up!

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Great time to visit! By fall it should be cooler and we'll have a little more inflows yet. The heat just hit hard this week they are saying up to 125 possible so exploring comfortably down there is over until about October 😎

Very well done presentation! Thank you!!

I didn't realize how behind I was on your videos. Catching up now. Great footage!

@mojo.adventures

10 ай бұрын

Welcome back!😊 No worries they'll be here waiting 👍 KZread stops recommending things periodically I was just getting caught up on Jessie and Vegas D-Tech too

@dawnr9158

10 ай бұрын

@mojo.adventures it was exciting talking to Jessie on the live last week. I enjoy his humor.

Thank you Mojo, your narrative is so very informative, so your delivery is based on actual facts and activity. well done Mojo.

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it and found it informative👍

Excellent video. Thanks

Appreciate information and Comment's for added honest, accurate, reliable, posts.

great coverage, very knowledgeable and well spoken.

Isn't it amazing how nature cycles itself.

🙏🏻Thank you I appreciate your work, the information, commentary and visuals are informative and entertaining. I appreciate the way that you deliver this information. And I subscribed to Critter Camera .

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you for watching and taking time to leave a comment!👍 Appreciate you showing support to CritterCamera also, they are just getting started still like us. Much more to come!

Great report

Hope you continue to be cold and wet.. what a lovely cold and wet miracle

Now all should be conserving this precious resource...

excellent video. wow that water looks so nice and clean. hopefully the sewage gets absorbed by bacteria in lake mead and breaks down alot so it dont wreck that beautiful water...thats probably why they say stay away from that las vegas wash place...probably sewage or at least stinky creepy street run off is constantly flowing in it

Good job on this.

Great video, very insightful 👍👍

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for taking a minute to leave feedback also! 😎

Welcome to nature and CLIMATE... Know the difference between weather and climate.

Your channel just came in on my recommendations. Great content. I follow other channels covering the Colorado River and added a subscription to yours. Thank you!

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for subscribing and welcome aboard!👍

It’s looking good. Mammoth ski resort is still open with 12 feet of snow. It’s going to help with the aquifer..

@Aw-ns1qx

Жыл бұрын

It's looking better than a continuing drought. But people can't get over-excited & pretend a drought won't happen again.

@connieclark6167

Жыл бұрын

@@Aw-ns1qx i still have hopes for another 1983 snow pack..spillways had to be opened. But then we weren’t as low to begin with..so there’s that,.

Excellent video!

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! 👍

great coverage, very knowledgeable and well spoken.. great coverage, very knowledgeable and well spoken..

Always love the videos!

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Glad to have ya on the channel, thanks for the support! ✌️

OK, I see that you have added them

Excellent video

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visit! 😎

Great presentation of relevant data; Subscribed.

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!😎 Thanks for checking out the video and leaving a comment👍

Thank you, So happy that lake mead is rising. I live in maryland and we've been through a few droughts ourselves.😊😊😊😊😊

@Bouncer-id1rh

Жыл бұрын

The drought has been an Agricultural & Hydrological drought the past roughly 25 years. Most people think it's been a Meteorological drought, which it hasn't.

I'm really pleased for you all, that your reservoirs are filling again, but it is so depressing to know that, as soon as the problem was a few years away again, no one wants to talk about it, never mind act with the urgency still appropriate.

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Yes, thank you for pointing this out!👍This is one of the most important reasons we started documenting these water changes. In 5-10 years when things have inevitably changed even more, for better or worse, maybe someone can look back on these turning points and the decisions we made. Just like the flawed 1922 River Compact. Hindsight and all, right...?

8:28 sewage leak ? 💩 I'm not surprised, in Los Angeles along the coast it occurs all the time sewage spills to the ocean, no one gets fired for it then a warning goes out to the swimmers.

People so quickly forget how bad things were when they start to seem good. History repeats itself unfortunately. Wishing u all the best.

@RyanGribble

Жыл бұрын

People seem to forget how good it was when things go bad for a short period of time. See i can talk nonsense too.

@scottw5315

Жыл бұрын

What a downer...

@levistoner

Жыл бұрын

Water levels fluctuate, sometimes drastically, as does the weather and peoples moods.

Impressive reportage and presentation. Subscribed.

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard! Thank you for the feedback 😎

Mr. MOJO risin, gotta keep on risin

Another excellent report Update, guys! Even with the current blessings we're experiencing, I seem to remain the "Water Usage Police" in my Gilbert, AZ household🧐 I never miss any of your updates, and look forward to whatever additional levels of fresh water El Nino bestows upon us here in the Southwest. Btw, I also just hit the Subscribe button for the @CritterCamera channel. Thanks so much!!

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Ha! Well we have something in common! If you're the Water Usage Police then consider me the "Water Usage Sheriff" 'round these parts 🤣 That and leaving doors open too long with the A/C on. Pet peeve. I herd people in and out of doorways I don't mess around. Waste not, want not 👍 Thanks for joining us in another update and also for helping out CritterCamera! We are going to try and support local creators and businesses here instead of feeding the Amazon machine with affiliate links.

even though the lakes are filling, this is just a extra wet season, they still need to save water for when it is dry again.

I have seen an incident in a relatively small lake where a kid fell out of a boat and then was pulled under. He never came back up. Divers spent all day looking for him and he was never found to my knowledge. The speculation was that water flowing into the ground at the bottom of the land may have pulled him into mad where He couldn’t be found. A large man made lake is bound to have localized currents and areas where water flows into the ground.

R.I.P. those who recently passed away at Lake Mead.

Let's all keep praying for rain and snow packs so our rivers and lake fill up so we have water and lakes to enjoy water activities!

@god-tx4xz

Жыл бұрын

Yes, let's do nothing. That'll fix everything.

@EperogiLimousine

Жыл бұрын

@@god-tx4xz bruh just let me live,

@melainewhite6409

Жыл бұрын

​@@god-tx4xz Remove the welcome to the 50 million here due to illegal entry and a surplus of water.

@mid-ohioguardian6927

Жыл бұрын

You better worry more about drinking water than water activities ..wetard !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love the awesome update, thank for all the information. Looking forward to the next information packed video!!! Great work! 🤩

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, glad you enjoyed it 😎 Thank you for dropping in to leave a comment too!

Actually we’ve had 3 consecutive La Niña years. With a Super El Niño predicted for this year.

It also helps that residents are fleeing California.

@matthewhuszarik4173

Жыл бұрын

Residents only use 10% of the water used in California. Businesses and industry uses another 10%. Agricultural uses 80% of California’s water. That is then shipped out to the entire country as agricultural products. So no a few people leaving will have no significant effect, as California’s population is still growing.

@jdemarco1157

Жыл бұрын

@matthewhuszarik4173 Sure , If you say so Mr or Mrs or some other titled Democrat.

@matthewhuszarik4173

Жыл бұрын

@@jdemarco1157 I don’t say so the statistics say so.

@jdemarco1157

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewhuszarik4173 you mean your statistics. I'm sure you're still wearing a face mask and loaded with lots of booster shots.

@matthewhuszarik4173

Жыл бұрын

@@jdemarco1157 So you are one of those people who don’t believe the science or facts and live in a world of alternative facts? About right? I also never had COVID-19 either. You see I am not a fool who doesn’t take reasonable precautions. Natural selection will have its way with you eventually.

Thanks for the update what about Lake Powell?? Up here Reno Nv we still have snow on Mount Rose and in the high country around Tahoe.

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

I saw Heavenly and some resorts stayed open through Memorial Day! Any holdouts still in ski country, or did you all get hit with the heat wave up there last week like us down south? Charleston Peak lost all it's snow finally in the last couple weeks. It is SWELTERING today. Lake Powell is doing great it's rising MUCH faster than Mead and isn't slowing much just yet. Looking at the inflow and outflow charts, it looks like around 2x the water is coming into Powell than they are releasing down to Mead. You can see that in the graphs I shared where Mead seems to be "topping out" but Powell is still climbing fast. Thanks for watching!

You cry when it's full and cry when it's empty.

How about diverting the Upper Platte River into the Colorado at some point? Wonder if this has been evaluated.

Wow! Glad to find your channel. Great narration and very informative. Where can someone pitch a tent overnight and go rockhounding near the waters edge? Thanks for dedicating your efforts on these videos. So enjoyable.

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard, now you're speaking our language!😎 There is a lot of interesting geology around the lake but there is "no collecting" and "no detecting" within the park boundaries. Catch and release only! If you have a high clearance vehicle, you can drive down Kingman Wash within the park it's a nice place to camp on the water and I find a lot of copper rocks / malachite looking material on that side. If you want to collect, there are plenty of areas just outside the park boundary away from the water. Ore Car Mine is one place inside the lake that collecting is legal. You can camp for free at "Government Wash" or "9 Mile Wash" and drive over to collect at the Ore Car Claim. Lots of common agate, selenite crystals, stromatolite fossils. You can see the route in our Anniversary Mine video here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/i36hudOnkrHYibg.html

@user-pc5tp2xs1h

Жыл бұрын

@@mojo.adventures Terrific information! Thank you

Thank God for answer of prayer

Still have plan and negotiate very well

The snow still hasn't stopped melting.

We got like over 10inchrs of rain in June in Colorado

God is in control. Always.

That reservoir will never be full again....

It's less about wet/dry cycles, and more about overconsumption.

Hi from Baja! You have such a gentle touch when speaking about the conservation talks "drying up." I did laugh but it isn't really funny, eh? Always postpone the problem as long as we can. In Mexico, we don't have a problem until it is. Sigh. But the 7 states got their billion dollar hush money to be quiet for awhile. The rumbling will probably start again near the end of 2025. And yes, we are all happy with the precious liquid, if only we could treat it that way. As always your reporting is top notch! Thank you!

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you caught that one! Completely on purpose 😎 I was a bit disheartened watching all the news drop off on the river also. We'll revisit the issues soon enough! For now we try not to be Debbie Downers and I will be glad and thankful watching our reservoirs rise with this blessing right now. I recently saw an article that actually reported on Mexico and the river. Unsurprisingly... it didn't really report anything at all, basically that Mexico hasn't had a real say in the compact for a long time. I'll have to shoot it to your email this week. Hope you are staying cool there... we aren't anymore here!

@bodhimartina6985

Жыл бұрын

@@mojo.adventures You have a better attitude than I! , but you are right about not carry around the downer. Yes, please send anything you find. There was a brief note in the Gringo Gazette about the new gov, saying she was "looking into ways....." But the next article is about building a type of Mexican Disneyland in the wine country. Sigh. The thinking is so shallow. The water will go to tourism and not to the grape. OOOPs there I go, Debbie downer. Sorry!

Very interesting stuff. Just a suggestion: When you're showing video footage, would it be possible to have a little map in the corner, with a marker showing where the footage is showing?

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Great suggestion, thank you!👍 I did this in our first video on the drought last year but haven't really incorporated it since. Mainly due to being short on time when trying to compile these videos. I will definitely consideration putting that back in. I'm also planning a "virtual tour" type video in the future showing the different areas that might interest you!

great work,

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visit!

I would like to see how the wash works.☺️

Yes, use water storage AND in tandem with water from air devices, better yet

Hurry up and use up all the water, don’t conserve a drop!

I understand the SW will again have a very wet winter with plenty of snow in the mountain 2023/24 .

Why was it a short year? “Just one short year”. Did you mean in the span of time? In just 365 days? What are “short years”?Thank you for caring. Thank you for your action research & sharing updates. I wonder if you think the release of water from Lake Powell is a real supply source. Arizona looks like it’s sprouting new reservoirs due to the flooding there. Dan.. thank you for footage.. thanks for checking and explaining experiments as in flow tests… the wash .. sewage spill information is appreciated.

The argument over Colorado river water and the interstate compact has been going on literally for over 100 years. I don't foresee that coming to an end in my lifetime. Fortunately, Phoenix metro relies much more on the Salt and Verde river systems, although the Colorado river DOES flow through town. (So to speak... CAP canal.) These reservoirs are all full, including Horseshoe lake which is typically drained each year to provide for flood control along the Verde river. It has indeed been a good couple of years for that system. Glad that the Colorado system is getting a lot more water this year but Lake Mead still has a LONG way to go to get to the levels it once held.

I'll like to see a video on the wash

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Excellent, thanks for letting us know! Thinking of gathering more wash footage over the next few weeks 👍

This has been a huge warning. The entire southwest needs to take heed concerning the future.

@melainewhite6409

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, remove the welcome to the 50 million here due to illegal entry and abundant water.

@Bouncer-id1rh

Жыл бұрын

What's the warning? What is going to happen?

@Aw-ns1qx

Жыл бұрын

​@@melainewhite6409The water belongs to them downstream as well. 🤦‍♀️water FLOWS. U don't get to own it becasue u r entitled.

Water world going on with all this rain everywhere 💦

Good to see a little reprieve but won't last long as we have constant habit of forget about it mentality and the problem will fix itself. We don't have a plan or willingness to actually fix this and other problems . We can't see the problem because many want to ignore complex problems. Good Video 😎

@markmorenault765

Жыл бұрын

the main reason it was lowering is because they were diverting most of the water elsewhere, and telling you its climate change lmao, only a fool would believe that! the Earth's co2 level in th eatmospere is .04%, its gone from .03% to .04% in 60 to 100 years, if the co2 level drops to .02% plant life will start dying off, so we are not in some horrible climate change, and besides the climate has never been stable, e and is always changing, always has, always will, if people were here or not! every planet in orbit around the sun is heating up, so that tells you right there it's not man, yet!

@Bouncer-id1rh

Жыл бұрын

You're kidding, the problem has been worked on for years by very competent people. What, are you stuck in the closet.

very nice video. I am on otherside of US. Boston NY. we dealing with wildfire smoke from Canada this spring summer. love seeing updates on lake mead . This weather change won't last . all this does is buy time. save the water is a must. in NY we have high lake levels on lake Ontario . the past few years record breaking. climate change is real . we must change with it.

@melainewhite6409

Жыл бұрын

For sure, it was real climate change hoaxer arsonists starting those wildfires.

@Bouncer-id1rh

Жыл бұрын

What does climate change have to do with Lake Mead?

I wonder how the drivers would manage in the Uk. In Scotland there are single track roads.

*The water looks very inviting the way you showed it. Hopefully we won't bury our heads in the sand and rather continue to take the water issue seriously.*

@melainewhite6409

Жыл бұрын

For sure, remove the welcome to the 50 million here due to illegal entry and solve the "water issue".

@Bouncer-id1rh

Жыл бұрын

Has the water not been taken seriously for at least the last 30 plus years?

It looks so clean and clear. Was it always? Or did it get cleaner

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

It usually looks this clear! As long as it hasn't stormed or flooded recently. No filters on my vids... I don't even know how to color correct yet. It's that clean Colorado River water filtered by the Glen Canyon Dam upstream. If you go down to Willow Beach below Hoover Dam, it's filtered 2x and even cleaner. You can see clear to the bottom when kayaking the river it's really cool

I’d like to see a video on how to Las Vegas wash work?

It happens in cycles. We experience drought and after a time, panic sets in and we wait until draconian measures are required for us to just slow down the depletion of water tables, the drainage of reservoirs… Then it rains. Lordy, we’ve been saved! Now we can return to our wasteful ways without consequences… Rinse, (literally) and repeat. Unfortunately, we won’t learn until there are catastrophic consequences. That’s the way we are.

Here in Tucson temps hovering near 110 ° for weeks. No rain. No monsoon. 😪😓😥😫😅

@Bouncer-id1rh

Жыл бұрын

So, that means what?

Some reporting on lake temps would be nice in future reports. Thanks for your reporting.

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Good suggestion will definitely consider adding that data point , thank you for commenting!👍

Yea do a LV wash vid

Given how 'short sighted' politicians and users are, I have no doubt that conservation will be forgotten until the next drought

@Bouncer-id1rh

Жыл бұрын

Conservation has been a "thing" in the Mojave desert for decades, so not sure what your "emotional" statement means.

Seriously? It is not cooler in AZ. Our monsoons haven’t started yet either. Send rain!

Too little water a tragedy Too much water, also a tragedy

Yeah that less than 2% increase really offsets the last 1 year of loss. Only another 19 years worth of heavy rain and all will be ok! Keep burning oil bro'

@melainewhite6409

Жыл бұрын

Without "burning oil" there would be no Lake Mead and hence 0% capacity.

@Bouncer-id1rh

Жыл бұрын

What does burning oil have to do with Lake Mead?

@Shazza2024

Жыл бұрын

@@Bouncer-id1rh duh global warming bro

@Bouncer-id1rh

Жыл бұрын

@@Shazza2024 WINNER! Another ignorant idiot that thinks the water issues have been about global warming. The declines have been the fact that the C.R. was over allocated at 16maf by mistake in 1922, when the actual 300 year average was only 14maf. When that was discovered in the late 90's NOAA made it's Agricultural & Hydrological drought designation, understanding projections showed the 16maf would come to fruition early this century. The system has has a 2maf deficit for decades, hence why the reservoir(s) have declined. Duh...that's reserved for idiots that have no clue what they're talking about. That would be you. But thanx for commenting, and opening your ignorant mouth for the world to see. You're welcome!

@Shazza2024

Жыл бұрын

@@melainewhite6409 are you looking back a century to what technology constructed the dam and ignoring my irony or are you ignorant of global warming? Your lake will be gone soon enough. Enjoy burning "oil"(petroleum) powered vehicles while your nation dies 🙈

“When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak. When it do, I cain’t fix it no how.”

1982 cliff diving found underwater overhangs (submerged cliffs), that's how divers disappear, by entrapment underwater. Sad but true. Freaked me out 1st jump, wear watershoes climbing out can be a sunny beach! Narly dude.

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Wow yeah... especially seeing some of these crumbling cliffs out of the water from below now. There are a lot of odd little caves around the walls of the canyon too. It would NOT be good accidently slipping into one of those when underwater!

We had a late start with summer being well over 100 so theres still plenty of snow to melt

No drones in the Lake Mead National Recreational Area?

buh ma global warmin 😭😭😭

Of course. As soon as situation improves a little, all talks on how to prepare for future crisis, are over.

Wow! The water looks so clear and refeshing. Here in California, Lake Success it murky and stagnant. Im jelous 😫

So how much will it rise by December?

This rings so true. I live near Atlanta and Lake Lanier. Lanier holds a few records like most visited USACOE location. I'm not sure it still holds that title. To the smallest watershed area per acre-foot at full pool. In 2007 - 2009, most of N. Georgia was under water restrictions. I believe there were 13 new reservoirs advanced through preliminary actions. Only 2 have had construction started since then. It rained in 2010 - crisis averted - politicians had to find another key issue. It's one of the downsides of a representative republic. The only job of a politician is to get re-elected.

In regards to conservation; years ago in the city where I live. The City asked residents to conserver water to do to aging infrastructure and costs. People responded so well with holding back water usage that council increased water costs the following tax year. They were losing money producing it. And they told us that they don't make money on water charges 🤔

@mojo.adventures

Жыл бұрын

Wow what a farce! Did they at least send you a nice "thank you" letter for doing the right thing and conserving before charging you more?🤣 I would say that's shocking but it sounds like the typical bureaucratic response when it comes to resource management. We have lots of that here. For instance, in Nevada we keep cutting and cutting and using less and less, even though we use the LEAST of the river basin states. The city keeps building and building, adding new residents, pro-sports stadiums, and increasing water costs. We keep getting told to use less and less. We are all conserving so that new people and businesses can come waste the water instead, and the city gets to collect all it's new tax revenue and kick the can down the road...

@retireorbust

Жыл бұрын

Back when I was in city work we structured the rates as production costs and distribution costs because we had a water treatment plant. We knew what we needed to run the plant and maintain the lines by and large. The more we produced the cheaper the water got. Of course that's the reality. And in fact the city can use the revenue. There is no natural incentive on the fiscal side to conserve. If you do you will pretty much get the people you serve to pay too much for too little. The first things to go are lush landscaping.

@stevehockey4

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, thats because there are fixed infrastructure costs that have to get divided out. Fixed cost at lower use equals higher rates.

@samuelsanderson9692

Жыл бұрын

Los Angeles department of water and power did that same exact thing to residents years ago. They got roasted pretty bad by some local talk radio stations but was never brought to life by mainstream media.

@joegotz1971

Жыл бұрын

Typical government. Soon you will be paying. Mileage tax on your car (truck) due to the loss of revenue from EV’s and better mpg for gas vehicles. It never ends!