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Leaking Las Vegas: Forced Rationing Looms As Lake Mead Faces Federal "Water Emergency"
Submitted by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com,
Leak Mead – on your left, when you drive from Las Vegas across the Hoover Dam – is the largest reservoir in the country when at capacity. It’s fed by the Colorado River which provides water for agriculture, industry, and 40 million people in Nevada, Arizona, California, and Mexico, including Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. Now after 15 years of drought, the “lake” – a mud puddle surrounded by a huge chalky bathtub ring – is threatening to run dry.
It’s considered “operationally full” when the water level is at 1,229 feet elevation above sea level. On May 2, the water level was down to 1,078.9 feet above sea level, the lowest since it was being filled in May 1937. It’s down 15 feet from the same day a year ago. Over the last 36 months, the water level has dropped 44.8 feet. It’s down 150 feet from capacity.
If the water level is below 1,075 feet elevation – 4 feet below today’s level – by January 1, 2016, it will trigger a federal water emergency. And water rationing. Las Vegas Review Journal reported that forecasters expect the level to drop to 1073 feet by June, before Lake Powell would begin to release more water. Assuming “average or better snow accumulations in the mountains that feed the Colorado River – something that’s happened only three times in the past 15 years,” the water level on January 1 is expected to be barely above the federal shortage level.
Even with these somewhat rosy assumptions of “average or better than average snow accumulations,” the water level would begin set new lows next April. But if the next winter is anything like the last few, all bets are off.
If the level drops below 1050 feet, one of the two intake pipes for the Las Vegas Valley, which gets 90% of its water that way, will run dry. A new $817-million tunnel is being built by the Southern Nevada Water Authority to create a new drain to get the last drop out of the bathtub. It should be ready by September.
The LA Times explains what water rationing would mean for the states:
Las Vegas has long been at a disadvantage when it comes to Lake Mead water. A 1922 Colorado River water-sharing agreement among seven Western states — one still in effect nearly a century later — gives southern Nevada the smallest amount of all; 300,000 acre-feet a year, compared with California’s 4.4 million annual acre-feet. An acre-foot can supply two average homes for one year.
This summer, officials will make their projection for Lake Mead water in January 2016. If the estimate is below 1,075 feet, rationing kicks in: Southern Nevada would lose 13,000 acre-feet per year and Arizona would lose 320,000 acre-feet. California’s portion would not be affected.
Note the last sentence – that California would not be affected. Keeping lawns green in LA is top priority.
“Between Lake Mead and Lake Powell, you have over 50 million acre feet in storage when they’re full,” explained Pat Mulroy, former general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority from 1991 until she retired in 2014. “To have them both go down to a quarter of their capacity is a pretty scary proposition,” she said.
Here she is, via Brookings, on the water crisis at Lake Mead, with ghostly images of the lake and of Hover Dam sitting high and dry:
To get through the drought, residents and growers in California’s Central Valley have been pumping water from aquifers to take a shower, fill a glass with water, irrigate almond orchards, or do a million other things. But now, it turns out, even those aquifers, whose water levels are already dropping, are threatened by something else.
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Just build a taller dam!
And who actually drinks water in Vegas anyway?
Duh!
Dam, why didn't I think of that?
Obligatory Kinison ... You want to help? Send them a UHual, send them luggage! ... YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA
Regards,
Cooter
I love the old we're running out of water environmental argument. Water is the only true renewable resource. It doesn't disappear on a global scale. Think about it! Where does water go when it is "wasted".
You drink it and then piss it or sweat it.
You wash with it and down the drain it goes but doesn't it emerge somewhere else.
Water crops with it. Goes into the food. Food is eaten. Crap is somewhat moist and eventually the water evaporates.
Forget the new intake tunnel for Vegas... what these guys need to do is build a giant straw and attatch it to the dry tunnel.
It's going to make one hell of a sucking sound when it finally gets to the last dregs at the bottom.
It's all good because of the electric cars.
Marlin: The water's going down. It's-it's-it's going down!
Dory: Hmm. Are you sure about that?
Marlin: Look! Already it's half-empty.
Dory: Hmm... I'd say it's half-full.
Marlin: Stop that! It's half-empty!
Whisky’s for drinkin’ and water’s for fightin’.
-- Mark Twain
Lake Powell Data
http://www.usbr.gov/uc/water/crsp/cs/gcd.html
Let Harry Reid and all those that voted for him drink from the urinals.
I am willing to sell 10 gallon of my water to California for $1000 via UPS.
If the oceans are rising, just build a big pipe from the pacific ocean to Nevada. They can desalinate it and dump it back into the lake. Now we've filled the lake and helped prevent the seas from rising. Win-win.
I can't keep up, the deal was, water levels will recede with election of The Won, now everybody is bitching.
You just can't please some "folks" ;-)
The solution, instead of building expensive and electricity intensive pipelines over or through mountains is for Nevada to build desalinaztion plants on the coast and trade that water to California for the same amount in Lake Mead. It has been suggested many times but no action has been taken.
I'll send you a check for $2k via Western Union. Send me the 10 gallons and the change in cash. Keep $20 for your trouble.
- Benjamin Franklin
Why don't they build pipeline and move the water..? They can send a man to the moon.. Are they terrified of creating jpbs?
They're building a bullet train instead, they're gonna transport the water over in those little plastic bottles everyone carries around with them on the way from water starved Kalifornia to the shimmering nomadic oasis that is Vegas.
They got it all figgered out, its Regional Central Planning 101.
"A new $817-million tunnel is being built by the Southern Nevada Water Authority to create a new drain to get the last drop out of the bathtub. It should be ready by September."
Am I the only one who has no comprehension of why Las Vegas is allowed to build this new tunnel so the golf courses, pools and some of the worlds largest shooting water fountains can stay happy in Vegas?
How many years have the zios and Mormons who control vegas have been cheating and screwing the little people? God is punishing that vile hell hole. Hopefully Harry Reid's brother will beat him again and next time with a pipe.
F Vegas! F all the 4th tier celebs or D-listers who get rich playing Vegas. F the dual shit-i-Zens and George Clooney who owns a big operation in shit hole Vegas.
Las Vegas is a city in the desert for sure, but it is small in comparison to LA, blaming Las Vegas for the lack of water is ridiculous, if they reduced their usage down to zero the water level would continue to fall, its all about LA really.
The hotels in Las Vegas are pretty efficient by world standards, yet all we hear is how they are running out of water while no one mentions the elephant in the room that is LA.
The extra tunnel does sound ridiculous, I would have thought a cross country tunnel from a wet state would make sense rather than adding an extra straw to a rapidly emptying reserviour!
Golf courses, Nevada has 133, Arizona 421, California almost a thousand. According to Bellagio, whose fountains you rant about, the water used in the fountains is groundwater that is not fit for human consumption. Around half of the Lake Mead water used is cleaned and sent back to the lake, something that cannot be said for California and Arizona. The open canals that take water into California and Phoenix along with the many California reservoirs filled with Colorado River water probably evaporate more water than Las Vegas uses. If you read the article Nevada gets a drop in the bucket compared to California and Arizona. Unless things have changed in the 10 years since I was there, south of Phoenix there are miles upon miles of water sucking cotton fields in the broiling desert that could be replanted back east where they belong. California grows a lot of cotton too. Las Vegas has bought up lots of land to the north to pump groundwater but is being blocked in the courts, just as anyone trying to drain the Great Lakes would be tied up in the courts for decades and would still lose. Unless things have changed in recent years Las Vegas gets very little power from Hoover Dam. So if the Lake goes dry the lights will still be on in Vegas.
Remember it's only May and there's no first water in your court anymore. Get back to me when you pay good money to lick the sweat out of a hobo's ass.
Exactly. There is water, and there is FRESH water.
Now that is one freaky mind painting such a weird vision CPL.
So here is one interesting thing I've found in my life.
There is a reason eating less or not at all is called....FASTING.
Therefore eating must be????? ...SLOWING.
Fast, it's quite a feeling...
Words, they'll tell you the story...
https://youtu.be/gTot6Wcz3-g
No worries there, anything I eat just goes right through me anyways. But you know, everyone needs calcium keeps the bones in good condition with a nice big toothy smile. Or when wearing a fashionable hoodie it doesn't have the same effect when meeting people. Now...for my next trick I'm going to extort Las Vegas for their existence.
\\Las Vegas...It puts the lotion on it's skin, then it gets the hose again. 100 Bitcoins a week in the wallet or enjoy drinking ball sweat. If not...be sure to comp the high rollers with a bottle of evian and bed pan in June.
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Me and my boys be ready.
Tell the ancient Egyptians that water doesn't go anywhere.
Try this...
I think you'll really enjoy it...
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/the-year-the-time-and-the-pl...
They knew plenty about The Nile, or so they thought. Denial on the other hand....
1880's western range wars coming to a town near you again. Stupid fucking liberal commifornia fucked everyone else. Do you really need a green lawn??? Or how about all the illegal immigrants? Nah, they don't drink, piss, or flush... "water, water everywhere, no not a drop to drink"...
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As the population continues to grow more and more water is being used up by the growing existence of the ugly bags of mostly water. If we kill enough of them off we can reclaim some of that water.
Your water belongs to the tribe. . .
Frank Herbert scores again.
The bitch in the video has a solution.
Water tax
They need 5o million more illegals in Amerika to fix the water problem.
It's about fresh water. Fresh water is renewed by rain or by melting snowpack.
Pumping fossil aquifers is not renewable. Pumping aquifers faster than they refill is not renewable.
Pumping reservoirs or rivers faster than they are replenished is not renewable.
Perhaps more waste water should be recycled instead of being pumped into the ocean?
But we still use 1.6 GPF x2 to flush our shit to....nowhere. Why do we use water to fluch piss and shit?
Compost it.
I hope somebody shits all in the rest of the water left in Las Vegas. The place is a miserable hot vile shithole filled with ghouls and zombies.
LOL...well my brother is being xferred to Nellis, so I can't really hope for that. He mentioned having to reenlist to get his "orders" to relocate from Alamogordo. /2x facepalm.
I imagine the other option was to be shipped to Krapministan for the remainder of his enlistment, should he have had any reservations about his Doody to Cuntry.
" I love the old we're running out of water environmental argument. Water is the only true renewable resource. It doesn't disappear on a global scale. "
Tell that to the Martians......oh......wait.
Yet wells do go dry.
Dice Clay in his prime.
Sam Kinison.
The USA went to shit after Sam's death.
The LA Concrete Jungle was built on a desert - most of So Ca is / was desert.
It's got electrolytes
BLACKJACK!
Changing five hundred!
"The LA Times explains what water rationing would mean for the states."
No more fountains at the Bellagio???!!!
THE HORROR!!! THE HORROR!!!!!!
What about the 3,000,000 gal man made lake and all the golf courses?
They deserve this in a truly biblical way.
And here I thought that the next Genocide would be brought about by schemes like 0'Bamacare. Fuck that, it's in the water!
F the LA Times and F the zio casino owners. They all wanted tens of millions of illegals. the chickens are coming home to roost.
... no worries, mates.... the beady eyed, dried up, fossilized withered troglodyte harry reid who only has hisself interests as well as the unions and illegal aliens to heart will solve the problem.....
That might be part of the reason Reid is retiring.
I hope what stays in Vegas includes him.
But seriously, California has done a shit job on water management, the pipes are leaking, the waste is phenomenal, funny, maybe they will start a fruit and nut revolution.
Or perhaps the rat pack types. Ut oh.
Many more will be ducking out like Harry, count on it. They don't want the "blame", lot's of blaming coming.
http://southwesternarchaeology.blogspot.com/2008/02/fate-of-anasazi-anci...
for fuck sakes, just have yellen, the white haired cunt, print more water. why is this so difficult. if the stinky depends wearing garden gnome can fix the entire financial structure of the entire globe, certainly water should pose no challenge.
We need Ice for our free drinks.
Brewster's Berg #1. Setting sail to all those thirsty Las Vegas farmers
Actually it should be borewell digging season.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/The-man-with-48-borewells...
Sustainable model!
I like this water condenser, no moving parts and looks like an art sculpture. http://thespiritscience.net/2014/09/02/the-water-tower-that-creates-wate...
Where have you been Sunbeam! For some reason Chat's not working on the home machine (and certainly no on any of the "work" machines), so long time no communication.
If you could send me the link to the "watering hole" it would be much appreciated!!
All the best from Mr P
I'm down to taking a shower once a month. Not much more I can do
danmg, you must be a rich liberal. I haven't been able to afford a shower since 2009.
Peak People + Peak Useless Water Usages ( think the fountains at Caesar's Palace and growing grass...in the fucking desert ) + Peak Desert = Water Rationing.
The problem will provide the solution. Mass depopulation. Either by choice or death.
Men make choices....but Nature decides.
i lived there in 97-98. back then the waste of water then was incredible. misfit city.
humans locate in the dumbest places, deserts, river valleys and next to oceans.
food next? hey maybe a few billion to many humans. no, multiply and flourish(just don't fuck the neighbor), so the good book says...
Reality is friendly if you work with it. That's a big IF.
No Liquidity??
[1] "What happens in Vegas..."
[2] "Shit happens"
[3] "What goes around..."
Ergo, if we solve for Equations 1-3, we get: "Enjoy your Water* Games and keep your Excrement in Vegas!" Bitchez!
* Did anyone pick up on the double-entendre of "Water games"? ;-) :-0. "Tinkle, tinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are..."
Ahhh the Hoover Dam... back when the government actually built shit with the money it stole from us... now they dont even pretend.
What, you don't like the billion dollar bombers? The 5 billion dollar warships? The 20 million dollar tank? The trillion spent in Iraq? We get value for our stolen money, Washington has it's Zionist rulers to feed you know.
still wondering what happened to that 30K toilet seat?
Damn fish are drinking it all. You know, the suckers.
That's not the problem......it's that the fish aren't pissing back into the lake.
Once the water's gone, where's Vegas getting their power?
Reality bites, bitchez.
Regenerative slot machine arms?
Miles and miles of desert. Days and days of hot, dry sun. If only there was a way to get power from a hot, dry, desolate landscape?
in the end its just --www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcy0vR4iFiI
Whatz going to be interesting is that the 6 GigaWatt Palo Verde Nuclear power plant, 50 miles outside of phoenix, gets its cooling water from Phoenix's waste water !!!
Not only will we lose Hoover dam hydro, but we may lose Palo Verde too !!! Its building up to be a long hot summer !!!
thank god we have air conditioning. :=)
I'm curious if this new tunnel they are building will supply water to the turbines, or just provide water for Nevada? The base of the intake towers that provides water to the turbines are about 260 feet above the old river bottom.
Just for drinking.
As the levels go down, so does the head pressure to the turbines. Less head pressure equals less power potential:
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/25991640/low-water-levels-at-lake-mead-imp...
I don't get it. Why can't they just rehypothecate the water in the reservoir and issue Synthetic Collateral Default Swaps to homeowners who can take those to the repo window and use it as collateral to buy stawks?
Or route moar from other parts of the country? E.g. Great Lakes, run pipelines from Pacific...
;-)
The US doesn't spend money on beneficial infrastructure projects anymore. Just bridges and trains to nowhere.
Empty Basin Mead
The probability of this current ~10 year dry spell being part of a centuries-long trend remain small. That said, the trend in population growth and per capital water usage ARE problematic for arid regions. Price will be the mechanism for sorting this out. . .
Ho ho. Wait for water rationing? That train is still way down the tracks....
SARCASM
duh, you can't keep watering a desert forever, you exceptional dummies.
las vegas a pile of shit from its inception.
tic toc fools.
Phoenix is a steaming pile as well. Even drier than Vegas.
Wow! You sure showed them!
That's not all... an aquifer polluted by nuclear missiles is on the move under the desert and heading towards Vegas ... Don't u know that's some heavy water!
I stumbled upon that a few weeks ago googling something else.
Damn I can't find that article. When I searched little was being talked about over there and now the entire nuclear storage and aquifers has come up and its lost in the jabber! U can find old headlines in when the nuclear warheads leaked into the aquifer but u can't find the knew one I found that said the now nuclear aquifer was on the move and headed towards Vegas. Which made me think aquifer on the move under the desert and then I thought oh it's heavy!
Maybe you were reading about the Hanford site in Washington, with it's potential to pollute the Columbia River.
It seems that everywhere we've been, we've crapped it up.
Is it time to find a new planet to plunder?
Relax. It's self-limiting.
Unfortunately for our children.
I'm sure they must have planned this out before the project commenced, but just the evaporation rate from the sheer size/surface area of that body of water in that geographic area must be staggering.
"They"?
"Planned"?
What are you saying? The dam was a depression era jobs program that was to bring power and water to the region.
"They" were so thoughtful that they allocated the water in acre-feet rather than in percentages of actual flow.
The planning went no further than rosy predictions of an ever more wonderful future.
It's not just the water. Once the hydroelectric generators stop turning it's lights.
Actually I suppose if they stopped the generators, you could build the water level back up a bit. Water, or neon lights?
Don't tell the downstream water rights holders that.
lmao, if you are downstream, you only think you have rights. They call that a delusion.
Of course, if you shut-off the outflow from the lake completely, you'd probably kill most everything downstream as a side-benefit.
4 feet? Wait until June, July, & August when it's 115 in the shade with 4% humidity; but go ahead, water those golf courses and build some new houses in Summerlin. No worries, who needs water when you can gamble? WTF.
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Las Vegas golf courses are watered with reclaimed/processed sewer/gray water... looks like they need to let the golf courses dry up and use that for drinking....
GOOD!
Lake didn't belong in the middle of the GODDANG desert to begin with! Government planning at its finest! Thinking it can conquer nature.
Pretty sure The Mob picked the spot, not .gov
But why be redundant?
HA!
Sorry. The Private Mob, not the Public .Gov Mob.
Sorry, but that's still redundant. Crazy thing about those abstractions known as collectives, ya just can't pin them down to specific individuals, as the power flows through the network.
After all my years, I can tell anyone that will listen that the drought is just the beginning of the floods.
For when the drought breaks, the skies often open up and hardly stop.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
I wonder what would happen if there were a massive earthquake in an area experiencing heavy flooding?
You're right kch, it's fractally like the tide going out before rushing back in during a tsunami...
Slower time cycles is all...
Next up, black market water.
Das raycist.
Next up, SWAT raids on "water wasters." And property confiscations (thefts) as well.
"He would not put the bottle of water down, so our officers shot him. Fortunately the lid was on the bottle, and not a drop was lost. The public can drink their gallon ration tonight safe in the knowledge that we liberated a little more for them to use."
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
"On this table we have some of the $167,398 in illegal water that our officers confiscated at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. As can be seen, several of the bottles were high-capacity bottles that could have been used to waste large amounts of water in a single spill. Additionally, water wasting paraphernalia was also found. It will be sold at auction in Chicago."
Stillsuits for everyone!
I was thinking more like Tank Girl.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114614/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Urine and feces are processed in the thigh-pads.
/frankherbert
no doubt they'll toss a grenade in the kids crib, dang kid was drinking formula made with water.
Where is Pardo Keynes when you need him?
It's PardoT Keynes (intereting choice of name by the way, Herbert was plugged right in).
Interesting also that two Dune references landed up next to each other totally randomly.
they have a cure now for black water.
Water will go to the higest bidder.....they bought all of the Colorado farmers water rights in the 1980s when I was there...roughly $30.000 an acre foot at the time....alot of farmers made millions and just quit.....it was dry land now...the towns and cities were the big buyers...Denver Water Board was the biggest...they bought it all up on the western slope and tunneled it back over to the east...as far as Colorado goes..we let a lot of our water pass down the Colorado..we can take more out if we had a way.....I think we should and then sell it to the leftys in California...
Colorado = Vermont wannabes
They will play the slots for water...
That idea deserves your art, not text WB7.
Perrier at the dollar slots, a golden shower at the nickels.
Golly, I already avoid flushing my SoCal toilet until I pee in it two or three times just to make sure Al Gore and the Hollywood environmentalists have enough water to keep their crony-fascist-sized swimming pools full. What more can an environmentally-conscious person do?
I pee on my lawn.
My neighbors lawn works better for me.
If it's brown, flush it down.
If it's yellow, let it mellow.
You're better served pissing outside. Standing piss is hell on porclain fixtures. It clogs the p traps of wall urinals and leaves a scale ring at the waterline.
When I worked at BP a few years ago, they wanted to go green and install waterless urinals. Nothing could have been better designed to fail. Its expensive to run water supply lines in finished walls.
Be more direct, go pee in Al's pool.
This is just one of the problems unforeseen perhaps when you invite in millions of illegal immigrants. Oh sure there could be other circumstances but this clearly is a problem that would not be as bad without this added tax on the system. Today it's water. What's the catastrophe awaiting tomorrow?
Adelson wants to buy all the region and get fed funds for water. He is making circumstances to buy it cheap.
Well, it is a desert after all , right? Only oil and coal have allowed us to continue living in a desert in the numbers we have today. It's all on borrowed time.
Good time to do some maintenance and improvement on the infrastructure.
Looks like the Lake is dropping inches every day. All the South West of America should pray for the developing El Nino to form in it's traditional postion and flood moist Pacific Air into California. The facts remain to be seen, whether this El Nino will be the saviour. All we DO KNOW, is that if it does not form and send moist weather systems into California, then 2016 will be a year to remember.
The push to treat Sea Water for drinking is already underway, this will be a growth industry perhaps. The USN has used desalination for over 125 years for it's steam driven warships. The technology is nothing new and well understood. Only thing standing in the way is the fuel costs to run them. Nuclear plants alongside desalination plants probably would be needed to produce enough drinking water. Water for farming and industry will not be found by desalination. Too expensive for the quantities used.
I wonder what Vegas and LA would look like in 2020, if no major weather pattern shifts save them. UGLY!
Ca / Nv would have plenty of water if we stop growing almonds ... 1 almond = 1 gallon of water. The water for the years' almond crop would supply LA and SF for the year. But, no ... we produce almonds and then send 3/4 of years' crop to China.
That's nuts!
It's AlMondo Cane
Everytime you hear a toilet flush, an almond tree dies !!!
Although many nuts are raised in Nevada almonds are not among them.
Northern Nevada and Northern Arizona have quite a bit of groundwater also. Almost everyone from north of Phoenix is on a well/ septic even in towns, they criss cross eachother everywhere. Not sure about the rest of of those states. I have an old buddy who drills hydrothermal wells, oil wells and water wells (3rd generation) all over the west. He is going off the handle about how full of shit the water crisis is, at least for Arizona.
He also claims it is well known in the industry that there is much deeper water than what is traditionally used but that it isn't cost effective for the average individual to drill for. He anticipates that communities will drill for that if other wells begin to dry out in masse. This is another power grab.
Yes, lots and lots of immigrants from Mexico, Central America, India, and China would go home.
But I disagree, that would not be ugly.
Hoover dam tour with the family a few years ago. My grey haired 5 foot tall wife found to have a tiny pair of sewing scissors in a little kit within her purse. The low life ovetweight security acted like nutbags and said her scissors had to be confiscated if we want to see the lame tour, which would have cost $100 for us. AND we could not come back to get her scissors, permanently they now belong to them.
What a fucked up dam tour. I was seriously embarrassed for all the tourists who see this side of America. They give everyone the same shakedown. We turned around, took the escalators out of there and I could not have been happier to leave.
The disappearing water held within an engineering marvel from 80 years prior, now protected by childish thugs who treat all who come with indignity, really symbolizes the country as a whole.
I feel much safer now.
You are right about the tourists. Americans may be used to this police state culture but many of others aren't.
I would have walked before I gave up the scissors and kept my money.
Even coming to the US makes someone feel like a criminal. Who needs it? The tourist joints all would like our money but there is the shield a person has to go through which is humiliating as there are no rights or recourse, just a bunch of grim faces with sunglasses and guns.
Every time I go to Mexico it is like a breath of fresh wind as far as these security types are concerned. I feel welcome.
You enjoy being shaken down for cash by the policia? I have probably been to Mexico about 15 times and have been lightened of my burden of dollars by the thugs in uniform on three separate occasions.
Shame on me for going back again and again. I guess I just love the tequila and loose women.
Just get the Fed to print more water?
Or maybe buy water from China (we buy just about everything else from China now). Just strain out the dead pigs.
Or go tow some polar ice to California.
Or go ahead and drain the Great Lakes (it will have to be done eventually anyway)
Or go to Mexico, fill up a plastic bottle with Mexican tap water, bring it back to the US, and dare anyone who says they are thirsty to drink that water. Voila! No more thirsty people!
Anyone for golf? Only I'm figuring any rationing won't apply to them courses - only the plebs...
look up "Colorado pulse flow"... any questions?
Two things can be seen in the effects and tensions caused by the drought:
1) All government provided goods and services are welfare, regardless of what one may or may not pay for them. Water, highways, "security," etc.
2) Government can only provide poverty, misery, death and lies. If private folks had been allowed to own and control their water as they saw fit, there would not be millions of people now completely and totally dependent on government's continued theft and doling out of other people's water.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
"Automobire? Mmmm, errrrr, spwshhhh! Rake...(not so) big a rake!"
What Happens Here, Stays Here ... except the water