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    “Get rid of Denver, Salt Lake, Las Vegas, LA, San Diego, Phoenix, Tucson — the whole nine yards — and you still would not reach the amount of water you need to save,” Colby Pellegrino, the water authority’s deputy general manager of resources, told ProPublica. “As a basin, the answer is not lying within the entire urban sector. There has to be participation from agriculture and industrial.”
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    Monet, Give your toilet a triple flush and scream out in victory.
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    Back in the thirties we had a massive government works project to dam and electrify America; it paid dividends over time.

    Perhaps it is time once again for the states to come together, set aside petty grievances, and devise a viable plan to ship all necessary water from the Columbia River to the desert SW.

    Ship it primarily during times of good / excess flow and store it in reservoirs.
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    Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
    Back in the thirties we had a massive government works project to dam and electrify America; it paid dividends over time.

    Perhaps it is time once again for the states to come together, set aside petty grievances, and devise a viable plan to ship all necessary water from the Columbia River to the desert SW.

    Ship it primarily during times of good / excess flow and store it in reservoirs.
    So much of law and politics prevent any sensical approaches. At some point the big water users just have to be shut off. Give them compensation and move on. Really the only way forward at this point.
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    My thoughts: The local news likes to report that the whole southwest desert region is in a 20+ year drought. A drought is a couple years below normal. When it last 20 years, THAT is the new normal, and you have to allocated based on that lower new normal. It would be like a guy who made 100k at his management job. He loses that job. For the next 10 years he works a lower income job and earns 50k. When people ask him what his salary is, or he is trying to budget, he can't say 100k. or that it used to be 100k. It is now 50K, and that is what you have to budget or plan off of.

    2023 will be the first year since I have been in Las Vegas that water levels at Lake Mead will actually rise, somewhere between 12 and 20 feet. That is due to a much higher amount of snowfall higher up the river in the mountain areas. That is fantastic news, but just like the "drought" scenario, it is a one time thing until it happens for many years. so don't go planning anything around that.

    Now I see a list of big cities in the post at the top of this page. The problem is California, both the big cities, like LA, SF, Sacramento (mostly coastal), and the inland farm land called the Imperial Valley which produces 90% of the vegetables used during the winter in the U.S. It takes a tremendous amount of water to turn desert which is what that area is, into useful farmland. I don't know who's bright idea that was initially, but it is no longer sustainable.

    The answer has to be the great ocean off California's coast. Both The cities and this desert farmland HAVE to get the majority of water from the ocean. Desalination is very expensive, but they HAVE to do it. San Diego, not listed in my California cities above, already gets something like 90% of its water from the Pacific Ocean. The rest of California has to follow that example. There is a huge resource there, they have to use it, even if it is more expensive. And as time goes on they will figure ways to bring that cost down.

    And if you take California, both the big cities and this farmland they tried to make out of pure desert, out of the mix, or even greatly reduce their share, then there is plenty of water for, Denver, SLC, Vegas, Pheonix and Tuscon.....places that have no other option. California has another option, they have to use that other option.

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