Las Vegas is sitting on an Ocean of water, they can't use it legally so it just sits there. Arizona has been filling it's aquifers over the last ten years because they get more water from lake mead than they can use. They have way too much water saved for emergencies. Southern California uses up most of Lake Mead water. The Southeast had a drought for many years but when it started snowing heavy in the rockies again the water was lost due to high winds in the spring. The Colorado river does make it to Mexico, it's just not clean enough by the time it gets there. When I was in Memphis touring the Mississippi they had a natural canal going out west that joined other rivers. The idea was when during flooding in the Midwest the overflow would head out West. I guess it didn't work but would like to find out more about it.
. On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:45 AM, GMoney wrote: > > > I think a warmer planet is just our new reality. We'll adapt. > > > I'm particularly interested in water shortages around different parts of > the country and how they may be resolved. The west in particular - dry > places like Las Vegas and Phoenix that get their water from the Colorado. > > I've been reading up a little on that whole water system lately and how > close the entire southwest is to totally running out of water in the next > 30 years or so. They already take 100% of the colorado (it no longer > reaches the ocean) and Lake Mead (which supplies most of the water for the > southwest) is alarmingly low and getting lower. > > There have also been some really ambitious plans for resolving this over > the years and these may come back up again to try to help relieve the > problem. Some of them include: > > Diverting water from Alaska down into the Colorado system: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power_Alliance > > Diverting water from the Hudson Bay in Canada: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recycling_and_Northern_Development_Canal > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:366247 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
