The Colorado River - A National Disaster !

www.ClearWaterProject.us seeks to preserve the PALO VERDE LAGOON, an ancient tributary to the Colorado River now abandoned by government agencies. This fully narrated video explains how their neglect has caused a major migratory corridor for numerous bird species to become polluted and overgrown by salt cedar, Arundo donax and Phragmites. These invasive plants have replaced quality native habitat mesquite, cottonwood and willows that once existed along the river.
WERE GOING TO SAVE A RIVER AND WE NEED YOUR HELP! Join the CLEAR Water Project.

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  • @jimmytate7587
    @jimmytate75874 жыл бұрын

    i have fished there and i can tell you the fishing is fantastic. I almost caught one that would have weighed at least 50 lbs. Unfortunately it got off the hook right at the edge of the water and ran away as fast as its 6 legs could carry it. and its 3rd eye was staring at me as it disappeared over the horizon.

  • @mannynunez9361

    @mannynunez9361

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hey JIMMY TATE well I had a run in with your one that got away and I'd like to report the gal has gained about 10 pounds and has 2 additional feet another set of 3 eyes and well dont know how to put it it's a new momma. Yes sir I hooked into her and asi it walked up to me asking for some pliers it managed two words and then a single sentence that made no sense until today reading your comment. "Wheres Jimmy" it said then noticing I could not speak and about to throw up it jumped and spun 180 degrees and moonwalking back to the water it muttered "baby needs its daddy" and the last thing I saw was 2 3rd eyes going underwater over the horizon. So I guess congrats are in order it's a squidbaby.

  • @chuckstith838

    @chuckstith838

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm going to catch that soma bitch and eat it

  • @johnkeviljr9625
    @johnkeviljr96255 жыл бұрын

    Where is the Army Corps of Engineers? They love fixing these kinds of major screw ups.

  • @WA_S_S_AW

    @WA_S_S_AW

    5 жыл бұрын

    john kevil, jr last time they tried to re-route the Colorado River they created the Salton Sea.

  • @johnkeviljr9625

    @johnkeviljr9625

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hah! Good one Wayne! You are absolutely right. John

  • @kellypenrod2979

    @kellypenrod2979

    5 жыл бұрын

    LOL! The Army Corp of Engineers is usually THE CAUSE of this kind of disaster!! See levy maintenance along Mississippi river for reference matrial.

  • @beatorres6871
    @beatorres68715 жыл бұрын

    Problem is they restrict the rivers from flowing on their own & that restriction is goung to throw it out of balance!!!

  • @rl9808
    @rl98083 жыл бұрын

    All rivers silt up and change course. Just look at any river on a overhead map.

  • @smitajky
    @smitajky5 жыл бұрын

    Americans have been rightly proud of the way that their engineering has tamed their world and made it more productive. But so often there are consequences. Too much of a good thing becomes a bad thing. Whether it is the overuse of water, coal, oil or the disposal of wastes there are serious consequences that accompany our activities. Yet we are unable to control anything. Political stagnation at work.

  • @srats56

    @srats56

    5 жыл бұрын

    proud of the way the us is killing life, not productive

  • @richardprovost8204

    @richardprovost8204

    5 жыл бұрын

    smitajky ,, ya you got that right , but it isn't just the government, its the people that do a LOT of this pollution.. However if we do not pay more attention to our politicians and big industry we are not going to have a world left for most of us to live on ...

  • @RickaramaTrama-lc1ys
    @RickaramaTrama-lc1ys5 жыл бұрын

    If man doesn't get his head out of his ass pretty soon we will all regret it and I really feel for the young children that will inherit all our sins of the earth.

  • @semiramisbonaparte1627

    @semiramisbonaparte1627

    5 жыл бұрын

    STOP SAYING "MAN"..PEOPLE HAVE LIVED IN THESE AREAS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS WITHOUT ISSUE. DEVELOPERS AND GREEDY EUROPEANS DESTROY IT ALL

  • @johnlowe8418

    @johnlowe8418

    4 жыл бұрын

    Women too...

  • @soupcan203
    @soupcan2035 жыл бұрын

    Look at those specialized watercraft and the mouth breathing captain.

  • @glasslinger
    @glasslinger5 жыл бұрын

    We need more immigrants! More people will solve the problem!

  • @Artoconnell
    @Artoconnell5 жыл бұрын

    All waterways require continual maintenance to stay open and flowing.

  • @jeffhanson6844

    @jeffhanson6844

    5 жыл бұрын

    No they don't they maintain themselves if we leave them alone.

  • @konrad6157

    @konrad6157

    2 жыл бұрын

    All the rivers in the world would just stop if americans didn't help them flow

  • @robinjoy9592
    @robinjoy95925 жыл бұрын

    why has this waterway been forsaken ?

  • @n2locarz1
    @n2locarz16 жыл бұрын

    Stop farming in the desert.... Your lagoon will will return. Blame yourselves for not conserving water but instead trying to grow plants in the desert.

  • @StephenMortimer

    @StephenMortimer

    6 жыл бұрын

    Israel ??? tell them your good advice

  • @n2locarz1

    @n2locarz1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Stephen Mortimer , Israel has an overabundance of because of their technologies

  • @timfremstad3434

    @timfremstad3434

    5 жыл бұрын

    california

  • @moonlandingagain3228

    @moonlandingagain3228

    5 жыл бұрын

    Fuck israel

  • @jeffhanson6844

    @jeffhanson6844

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@timfremstad3434 Same damn water source, Colorado River

  • @russellkeeling4387
    @russellkeeling4387 Жыл бұрын

    The old saying goes, don't bring forth a problem unless you also bring forth a solution.

  • @shannonhunt7966
    @shannonhunt79665 жыл бұрын

    How sad😢

  • @leerice687
    @leerice6875 жыл бұрын

    No this is what happens when the irrigation district takes the water They bought up property on the shore of the Salton Sea to do he same thing. Check it out.

  • @albertcyphers1532
    @albertcyphers15325 жыл бұрын

    First those houses should have never been allowed. Second shut off the channels stealing water and never let them be reopened

  • @Elite59

    @Elite59

    Жыл бұрын

    Especially shut down the Alva B Adams Tunnel/Big Thompson Project! Put that water back into the Colorado river and the Southwest will be fine.

  • @mikemerry8528
    @mikemerry85285 жыл бұрын

    do you not mean sewage water front property

  • @mikehill5301
    @mikehill53014 жыл бұрын

    Where I am from they call it a dredge project.

  • @cravinbob
    @cravinbob5 жыл бұрын

    Which Colorado River are you talking about here?

  • @iftikerhussain5120
    @iftikerhussain51206 жыл бұрын

    peaceful..angelic.. Christmas..🌻

  • @nunyerbeeznaz2906
    @nunyerbeeznaz29066 жыл бұрын

    The last statement heard prior to the destruction of the southwest was "WE'RE HERE FROM THE GOVERNMENT ! WE'RE HERE TO HELP !!

  • @michaeldelrossi4487

    @michaeldelrossi4487

    5 жыл бұрын

    nunyer beeznaz - When the EPA dynamited the Colorado Copper Mine a few years back it blew a hole underneath the river bed and dumped tons of copper into the Colorado River and the results are what you see today ... just Google it and you can see for yourself. This was a pristine waterway and all it took was one accident to make it this way forever!

  • @OneWildTurkey

    @OneWildTurkey

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@michaeldelrossi4487 I wouldn't call that an accident. The idiot that caused it should NEVER have been promoted to the level he reached.

  • @stillborn62
    @stillborn625 жыл бұрын

    Start thinking? what would happen in 20 years. and most people would say no to these projects.

  • @ammoalamo6485
    @ammoalamo64855 жыл бұрын

    I think I may have caught something just from watching this... and I don't mean a fish!

  • @kima8567
    @kima856710 жыл бұрын

    I want to go fishing there. Have they fixed it? Thank you...

  • @tubitician

    @tubitician

    Жыл бұрын

    The fishing is insane. So many fish in the lagoon you can practically walk on the water. I'm lying. Don't come here and bother the 8.5 lb bass that lives at the bottom of my stairs.

  • @jaywalker8309
    @jaywalker83095 жыл бұрын

    the problem is that this water has been routed to las vegas now the river and lakes are ruined

  • @jimmytate7587

    @jimmytate7587

    4 жыл бұрын

    it was a gamble

  • @hellohun7331
    @hellohun73315 жыл бұрын

    Not enough snow in the Colorado Rockies, that's the main problem.

  • @judyschmoll8541

    @judyschmoll8541

    5 жыл бұрын

    hello hun, NO too many people!!! Why don't we bring in more across the border!!!!🤔🤔🇺🇸🇺🇸WE HAVE TO WAKE UP!!! CRISIS YES!!!🤗🤗TAKE CARE

  • @mattdwyer8242
    @mattdwyer82426 жыл бұрын

    This is what happens when you cram millions of people into an area that shouldnt even support thousands.

  • @EatChipsNow

    @EatChipsNow

    5 жыл бұрын

    15guinea this land wasn’t designed for Mexicans to deplete all of its resources. It honestly wouldn’t be a problem if Mexicans could control their out of control population.

  • @mattdwyer8242

    @mattdwyer8242

    5 жыл бұрын

    HANDSOME CRASH BANDI. COOTYour a dumb ass.

  • @mattdwyer8242

    @mattdwyer8242

    5 жыл бұрын

    A desert is almost uninhabitable by humans our need for water is to great. The solution to these problems is simple relocation. This is a complete man made crisis that the rest of the country should not have to worry about or pay for. But we will because the people in az nm and southern ca will never give up there coushy life in the sun.

  • @jayjohnson7827

    @jayjohnson7827

    5 жыл бұрын

    It wouldn't be a problem if the white invaders weren't greedy. Why do you think this continent was settled?

  • @mattdwyer8242

    @mattdwyer8242

    5 жыл бұрын

    Jay johnson your as ignorant as the guy blaming the mexicans!:(

  • @johnkeviljr9625
    @johnkeviljr96253 жыл бұрын

    Any updates since 2008?

  • @SkypowerwithKarl
    @SkypowerwithKarl4 жыл бұрын

    What your looking at is EXACTLY what will happen if the California Delta tunnels project is completed. "Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it".

  • @CH-pv2rz

    @CH-pv2rz

    3 жыл бұрын

    Liberals never learn anything and continue to repeat failure after failure.

  • @mechanicalnature2884
    @mechanicalnature28845 жыл бұрын

    Salton sea, same thing.

  • @ralphaverill2001
    @ralphaverill20015 жыл бұрын

    The narrator did much to describe a bad situation, and offered nothing in the way of a solution.The same with many of the commentors. Also, no information about the septic systems used by all those houses along the water. Methinks that had more to do with the death of the man-made river than the narrator let on, and perhaps was the reason the powers-that-be decided to isolate what may have become an open septic lagoon.The Colorado River supplies drinking water to lots of people.

  • @tubitician

    @tubitician

    Жыл бұрын

    Methinks you are so wrong .... They did a study here, about 99%.9 percent of the poop in the water comes from birds, fish, and the farms that use poop for fertilizer by the truckloads just upstream. It California, so keep using the field to grow grain for Saudi Arabia and cotton for the rag trade, and we'll just move off the lagoon and move to a cubby hole in the city where we can walk to our mugging and our poop will disappear like magic without an ecological effect.

  • @karenreichenbaugh856
    @karenreichenbaugh856 Жыл бұрын

    Somebody needs to put on their thinking shoes.

  • @cpcattin
    @cpcattin5 жыл бұрын

    It's called progress in the United States.

  • @gandanglily1
    @gandanglily15 жыл бұрын

    just close it off again , it will fix its self, stupid government

  • @home2night2
    @home2night214 жыл бұрын

    how is it now ???

  • @hoffer54

    @hoffer54

    5 жыл бұрын

    If you have google earth, check out where it flows into the gulf of California, pretty sad.

  • @billieberryman4335

    @billieberryman4335

    5 жыл бұрын

    home2night2 sounds like Reed blocked the flow of current

  • @jaywalker8309
    @jaywalker83096 жыл бұрын

    you can pipe all the water from the lakes arizona and colorado nevado to las vegas then there is no water for irrigation and farming and the west dries up

  • @Bete_Noir
    @Bete_Noir5 жыл бұрын

    We are a disease.

  • @casienwhey
    @casienwhey2 жыл бұрын

    The Colorado "River" and the Columbia "River" should be renamed Canals, because that is what they are.

  • @Jabootie-oz1cb
    @Jabootie-oz1cb5 жыл бұрын

    Careful what you wish for.

  • @larsfridtjofnrheim1638
    @larsfridtjofnrheim16382 жыл бұрын

    Drougth: CA and rest off the South West got 2 choice, fix the problem or keep the water problem! CA got 85,9 m acre foot, Coloumbia river dumps 191,3 m foot into The Pasific every year. Move 10% off this water. Make a 365m long tunnel from Red Bluff. NV, AZ, Mexico keep Colorado water.

  • @tomfitzpatrick6119
    @tomfitzpatrick6119 Жыл бұрын

    poor video! google search goes to clearwater FL - no idea WHERE this is - nice photography though

  • @celesteg-g2684
    @celesteg-g26848 жыл бұрын

    Call your elected official and make their lives miserable until they do something about it...

  • @CH-pv2rz

    @CH-pv2rz

    3 жыл бұрын

    You are a naive fool to believe any "elected official" gives a damn or would even take a call.

  • @rickyricardo520
    @rickyricardo5205 жыл бұрын

    What a mess we have and continue to make in this world. We in our greed and arrogance destroy everything we come in contact with. Woe has come onto the earth with the arrival of man who has like a plague descended upon anything good and has corrupted it beyond all past recognition to the point that he will destroy himself along with all other life upon this planet.

  • @anthonycannatajr9482
    @anthonycannatajr94825 жыл бұрын

    Stop watering golf courses!

  • @mariocisneros911

    @mariocisneros911

    3 жыл бұрын

    And Las Vegas. Let it disappear

  • @chuckstith838

    @chuckstith838

    2 жыл бұрын

    Use this contaminated water for your golf course

  • @danferguson71
    @danferguson715 жыл бұрын

    the music is annoying

  • @leslieclanton8328
    @leslieclanton83285 жыл бұрын

    All that tofu,dead uppies ,run off from all them pot fields ,weed killers,lol😎

  • @mikeconnolly9933
    @mikeconnolly99335 жыл бұрын

    All caused by greed

  • @emiliepullen2082

    @emiliepullen2082

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mike Connolly Exactly, and no thinking about what the long term repercussions maybe.

  • @judyschmoll8541

    @judyschmoll8541

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mike Connolly, Lots of ignorance too

  • @noonespecial1285
    @noonespecial12855 жыл бұрын

    gads, let dams go with removal of methane

  • @maryczarnik9750
    @maryczarnik97505 жыл бұрын

    The dems, congress and the senate have no problem giving millions of dollars to foreign countries and do not care what is happening in their own state and country. K Harris running for president and CA has homeless living on the streets. How can she run the country if she can't take care of her state?

  • @tonygross8678
    @tonygross86783 жыл бұрын

    Cadillac desert

  • @cyberelixer
    @cyberelixer13 жыл бұрын

    Fucking hell the guy scared me -_-

  • @georgegodinezalamotx7028
    @georgegodinezalamotx70285 жыл бұрын

    Thats the river in Ausrin that makes town lake made by the Long Horn Dam how I miss Fiesta Gardens also known as Chicano Park..😎😎🎺🎻🎹🎶🎵🎼🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺

  • @jceberle2724

    @jceberle2724

    5 жыл бұрын

    The Colorado River in Texas is the original Colorado River. The one in CO and CA was originally named the Grand River, as in the Grand Canyon, but back in the 30s some idiot senator from CO got the named changed in Congress.

  • @georgegodinezalamotx7028

    @georgegodinezalamotx7028

    5 жыл бұрын

    +JC Eberle Thanks didnt know about that part of the river...

  • @thomfisher1100
    @thomfisher11005 жыл бұрын

    I suggest some of the commentators here including those that created the video go back to how all this happened to begin with....look up Senator Wayne Aspinall and others who perpetrated the Colorado River interstate commission, the dams and the canals all in the interest of developers, agriculture and ranchers trying to exploit a land that won't be exploited. You complain about one lagoon when far more was lost, for instance Glen Canyon (check out the Sierra Club book "The Place No One Knew"

  • @CH-pv2rz

    @CH-pv2rz

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Sierra Club is responsible for nearly all the stupid decisions made by the EPA in the last 20 years. Liberals are idiots.

  • @richardprovost8204
    @richardprovost82046 жыл бұрын

    Ding ding ding , ya ok by . If you go any slower I can be reborn live a life time and you'd be still going on . And is this report 1962 ????

  • @billybossgaming9594

    @billybossgaming9594

    5 жыл бұрын

    Learn english before you post, you degenerate piece of shit.

  • @cobblebach947
    @cobblebach9475 жыл бұрын

    What we really need is high speed rail and a few million more illegal imigrants. That will fix all our problems.

  • @mannynunez9361
    @mannynunez93614 жыл бұрын

    The Colorado River ceased being a river decades ago it is now a water delivery conduit more canal than river it is the most managed and altered river in the world and not a drop of it goes unclaimed.

  • @jimcoulter5877
    @jimcoulter58775 жыл бұрын

    Remember when Jesus told Humans there will be famine in the world? Now you know the rest of the story!

  • @claussaunte2303
    @claussaunte23035 жыл бұрын

    Like the old chief Said, the White man Will not rest untill... you continue

  • @cobblebach947

    @cobblebach947

    5 жыл бұрын

    I hope you posted this from your wigwam. If not, Stop appropriating our culture.

  • @robertkish2483
    @robertkish24834 жыл бұрын

    It should not be there in the first place

  • @tubitician

    @tubitician

    Жыл бұрын

    You're looking at the real old Colorado river channel. Tell it to God.

  • @johnmiller7453
    @johnmiller74535 жыл бұрын

    Looks alright to me. It's a pretty thing indeed.

  • @petergadd1358
    @petergadd13585 жыл бұрын

    The usa should have fixed its backyard problems first instead of spending trillions on defense.

  • @sallymay3643

    @sallymay3643

    5 жыл бұрын

    If we dont keep up our defence Gernany or Korea could own the Colarado river.

  • @kellypenrod2979

    @kellypenrod2979

    5 жыл бұрын

    No, the United States should STOP paying to fix EVERY BODY ELSE'S PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD AND FIX OUR OWN FOR A CHANGE!! We seem to be the welfare ATM for the entire world right now!

  • @sallymay3643

    @sallymay3643

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@kellypenrod2979 I totally agree & it makes me sick!

  • @michealboyd2168
    @michealboyd21685 жыл бұрын

    The dead to inadeana new this to

  • @mecanicodejetski
    @mecanicodejetski11 жыл бұрын

    ES POR EL AGUA QUE VA A LAS GRANDES CIUDADES,POR QUE LA VENDEN

  • @donnichols9039
    @donnichols90395 жыл бұрын

    EPA good for nothing

  • @LasVegasFlicks
    @LasVegasFlicks4 жыл бұрын

    This was premeditated.

  • @michealboyd2168
    @michealboyd21685 жыл бұрын

    Thecgouver and saunter of wastion and Idaho did this they clock I the watter and the mud sild in Idaho and the counter of the bastion was blocked on pusses and. News noe the house caterer brothels and the rover of calfubia caused the since hole by the drill the kill in a slight drilling and sink cools and mining place out and the iron mines are tearing the planet up the you look at thecpople bastion and the river and the map 180 12010 overflow of watter was. Changed by 20bmilles way

  • @douglasscott5623

    @douglasscott5623

    5 жыл бұрын

    WTF are you talking about...?

  • @jimmytate7587

    @jimmytate7587

    4 жыл бұрын

    wtf?

  • @girlsrockurboyz
    @girlsrockurboyz5 жыл бұрын

    it's no coincidence it looks like mexicant

  • @robertkendall1037
    @robertkendall10376 жыл бұрын

    This is the lagoon not the river, this is nothing but propaganda. Water rises and falls according to the dam releases. I took my wakeboard boat down to PV and had no issues.

  • @hoffer54

    @hoffer54

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ah, used to be a real river before.....

  • @robtangeman6796

    @robtangeman6796

    5 жыл бұрын

    Exactly. I have a place in PV. It's a beautiful place and it's peaceful. Water rises and lowers with water released from Colorado River to fields. Been going there 30 years. Nobody's ever got sick.

  • @tacobob4123
    @tacobob41235 жыл бұрын

    Vote your Democrats in they in fix it lol

  • @igotajopamerica3040

    @igotajopamerica3040

    5 жыл бұрын

    Best joke I've heard this week.lol

  • @igotajopamerica3040

    @igotajopamerica3040

    5 жыл бұрын

    @John Nichols your first time on Utube. WE GOT A VIRGIN UTUBER HERE!! VIRGIN UTUBER!! Go easy on him, he's alrighty doing the spell check thing. Doesn't realize it just an accent. He thinks weall taka proper English.

  • @justathought973

    @justathought973

    5 жыл бұрын

    So will your republicans, right? after they've gotten rid of your national parks and open them up for oil drilling and mining, that is.

  • @igotajopamerica3040

    @igotajopamerica3040

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@justathought973 under Democrats we couldn't afford national parks.Becouse we pay people to sit on there ass and get checks. Least under the Republicans will still have our parks and are babies.

  • @elli003
    @elli0035 жыл бұрын

    There is nothing wrong with the Colorado River. The problem is California politics.

  • @elecereynolds6089
    @elecereynolds60895 жыл бұрын

    I blame Laughlin lol

  • @thisismecantuseeitsacz5823
    @thisismecantuseeitsacz58235 жыл бұрын

    Quit smoking pot 😂

  • @snowmobile488
    @snowmobile4886 жыл бұрын

    This video is dumb. Water levels rise and fall every day.