I searched but didn't notice a good topic heading to put this news so I created a new one.
It looks like a critical issue with water is on the horizon in the very near future.
@Jeanne-mayell , Does the time frame of 2025 make sense to you with things you have gotten? I thought of you when I read this news.
I wish our local government would prioritize educating people about conserving water. Only the media seems to be discussing the water crisis here in AZ.
~ There's a chance water levels in the two largest man-made reservoirs in the United States could dip to critically low levels by 2025, jeopardizing the steady flow of Colorado River water that more than 40 million people rely on in the American West.
After a relatively dry summer, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released models on Tuesday suggesting looming shortages in Lake Powell and Lake Mead — the reservoirs where Colorado River water is stored — are more likely than previously projected.
Compared with an average year, only 55% of Colorado River water is flowing from the Rocky Mountains down to Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona line. Due to the below-average runoff, government scientists say the reservoirs are 12% more likely to fall to critically low levels by 2025 than they projected in the spring.
“This is a pretty significant increase over what was projected in April due to the declining runoff this year,” hydrologist Carly Jerla said.
https://news.yahoo.com/water-shortages-us-west-likelier-001226984.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=fb
@lovendures. Check out this post I wrote in 2014, predicting the future to 2100.The first vision I had was of an epic game changing drought in the heartland around 2026-2028.
During my meditation, when I got to 2026-28 I saw a map of the U.S. and a cactus appeared in the heartland. The cactus looked somber and epic. I was so shocked that I started the meditation over and again, the map of the U.S. appeared and the cactus appeared again. Usually when I re-do a meditation, I don't see the same thing twice.
In the post, I also reviewed the climate literature and found a key study in which scientists gave their gut estimates. Their most extreme estimates were 20 foot sea rise by 2100. I also knew 20 feet was the closest, but more like 20 feet by 2075 and much higher by 2100, perhaps 40 - 80 feet.
Experts' guesses are more accurate than detailed analyses. Because when experts are guessing, they are using both expertise and intuition. They drop the conflicting details and cut to the chase.
I read later that glaciologists who are the world experts on how glaciers melt, speak of unseen melting going on inside glaciers and then sudden unexpected collapse. Well that collapse is now starting to show in both polls and it is only 2020.
Disturbing! Wall Street is about to Trade water?
My husband and I just watched the series “Utopia,” and without giving anything away ... in case anyone is planning to watch it ... there is mention of the next world war being over water, the earth dying due to overpopulation, pandemics and climate change and all of these converging. Scary to think this could/will be the reality in which my children live and work and maybe raise families.
99 percent of Arizona is currently in a state of drought.
55 percent of Arizona is in Exceptional Drought (the worst kind), including parts of the Phoenix metro area.
The Phoenix metro area was down about 40% in rainfall last year.
Currently Phoenix is down about 60% for 2021.
This weekend Phoenix will likely tie or break record temps.
Nevada, Utah and Colorado look pretty bad on the drought scales too.
Not a surprise of course, just wanted to share where the southwest stands.
I'm curious, do you ever wonder about the long term viability of living in a place like Arizona? I know some journalists have dubbed Phoenix "the world's least sustainable city." If I lived in a highly populated desert region, I'd be extremely nervous about a "day zero" scenario where water stops coming out of the faucet.
Yes Coyote, I have for a number of years. The state is much father behind then they should be and the population keeps growing. Yes, they have take some good conservation steps but they are very far behind where they should be at this point of time. I believe we would be hearing more about how precarious things are if we have state leaders who would chose to lead.
I am amazed about the lack of public service announcements over the past several years tackling this subject. Water reserves will only go so far.
I feel I will likely move out of the state in about 5-8 years or at least only be here part of the year. The monsoons used to help break up the summer but there are fewer of them now and less rain over the entire year.
Our sunsets are something to behold though, and the big open blue sky.
5-8 years sounds like the timeframe a lot of us are operating on. In that period I will probably move to Vermont or another area of inland New England so that I have more protection from tropical storms and rising seas than what CT offers.
@Coyote I am not surprised you will head that way but the timeframe is interesting.
I am not sure where I will move to yet. It will be an adventure I guess. I will need to be open to what is best.
@coyote @lovendures - I’ll gladly toss Northern Michigan up as a great destination to move. There’s tons of space here and — well — we’ve got water! Right behind our farmhouse is an empty stretch of land that someone has wanted to build a subdivision on for 20 years with no takers! :-) We have just the right amount of winter!