On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you know where the Colorado river is, cause it sure doesn't sound > like it? Lake Mead was formed by building the Hoover Dam. The level > of the lake is determined by the rain and snow levels in the mountains > of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
It's determined by people how much to let pass out of lake Powell and into Lake Mead. The river runs from La Poudre Pass in > northern Colorado to the Gulf of California. Any water taken out of > the river for irrigation in California happens where the river runs > through California, not at Lake Mead. Lake mead supplies the river. Water from the Hoover Dam is released to go to Lake Havasu where it's sent to AZ and CA. > Mead is simply the largest > reservoir. For years California took more than the allotted share > because the other states either couldn't or wouldn't take their share. That's BS. When the Hoover dam was built the Southern Nevada population was tiny so California and Arizona got the bulk of the water rights. > Now the other states want that to stop, so water has to come from > other sources. They just passed a federal law a few years ago that states that California had to build a reservoir to store demanded water. What they did until then was order x millions of gallons of water, then cancel because it rained. They would let that water drain into the desert without counting against their allotment. Then reorder again and again until they actually used it. > The debate between NoCal and SoCal regarding water is about diverting > the surface water on the western side of the Sierra Nevada mountains > to SoCal to make up the difference. Taking the Norths water, I think I said that. > Over 80 percent of the water in California is used for irrigation, so > your claims about the people in San Diego using more than their share > is meaningless. You really think a population of 22 million, many with lush landscaping, in a desert has no effect on water? That's irrigation isn't it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335587 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
