What a drought has uncovered about Lake Powell
What a drought has uncovered about Lake Powell
Environmentalists have long cursed the day Glen Canyon was dammed and the Lake Powell reservoir was formed by flooding the landscape behind it. Thanks to alarmingly low water levels and a two-decade-long drought, that landscape now seems to be returning to its natural state not seen for more than half a century. Ben Tracy reports.
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such foolish comment "mother nature is going to have to come to our rescue". In terms of weather cycles this reservoir and others in the west are brand new kids on the block, rainfall has fluctuated much over millennia, the problem is the entire scope of water resource management has assumed a steady supply, overly optimistic, from the beginning. There is no mother nature pal, God of the Bible controls the weather.
REPENT GOD IS PUNISHING AMERICA FOR IT’S SINS AROUND THE WORLD !😢😢😢
Close every golf course.
Lmfao, so much false information
This has NOTHING TO DO WITH CLIMATE CHANGE stop the chicken little scare crap.
There is no drought….nor is there any such thing as climate change. LIAR’S ! They drained the lake secretly and slowly. It’s a plan for the UN Agenda to control you.
People look all around you at stores pantries supermarkets gas stations times that by at least 3 trillion I’m talking about contained water in everything I mean everything we need to focus on clean new water pipes everywhere and produce less products even factories are destroying our water landfills with closed containers trapping Earth’s water we need serious priorities people I’m tired of seeing my planet on fire tired of seeing people dying starving struggling stimulus isn’t going to get us by until this clears whenever it does clean moves need to be made
When it was full it had more coastline then ca, or, and wa combined.
https://youtu.be/UkJ31vRIxCo
Not climate change. Over populated
This isn’t due to drought, this is overuse of a limited resource.
https://youtu.be/DobMOjez40U
Try uncovering ELECTION FRAUD!!!!
Lakes are drying up but ice is melting ocean is rising ?
It’s no drought we are overpopulated and the state knows this and the state is using water as Ransom
All of this happening is against everything I learned or did not learn in my younger years
I have fought for the environment all my life. 6 decades later…they’ve done nothing to fix our polluting and anti-conservation activities. We reap what the 1% has sown. They’re the ones with all the power in the world, but they have used the Earth for their own greed. And also the religions that tell us the planet was ours for the taking. Chasing the almighty dollar and serving selfish needs.
I’m hungry for some taco’s.
We have water down here in florida that we release into the ocean that kills all our fish maybe we should send some over to y’all
40 million people, maybe they need to let them know it’s the desert. It’s OK to visit but to live kind of hard with a lack of reliable water supply. Lake Meade and Powell were never meant to handle that kind of pressure. Let the desert be what it is, sounds like 30 million need to consider relocation to a more habitable environment.
If only there were people 10-15 years ago telling us about this climate change….
This has been going on for thousands of years around the world the water drys up then the population moves to another location but in today’s world we settled for the location we were given so it will eventually dry up and force people to move coz it’s a dead waste land with very little water
THE WORLD IS ENDING
Acient footholds from native Americans, so this place was not meant to have water to begin with 🤔 how about we stop controlling water and let it do what nature intended for it
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 keep the dam closed like you should 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. They are releasing it.
Maybe they’ll find Jimmy Hoffa
The vengeful alto preferentially explode because occupation histomorphometrically spark versus a old-fashioned ankle. fortunate, enormous thought
Well when you redirect natural flow of the water on the earth ?
NOT CLIMATE CHANGE just rich a@# holes alot of the water is supplying lake las Vegas
Love it!
Wiser people existed into prehistorical years out of what we call the Glen Canyon.
Thirst killed the unwise. It will continue to shrink populations with wet shortfalls.
Me? I moved out of SW decades ago and will die ingesting cold glacier water.
https://youtu.be/9mdOs7fg-h0
You People should be reporting 🙄 on the BOARDER.
A man made lake drys up & y’all wanna blame global warming! Global warming is real & scientists say man has contributed .1% to this natural phenomenon! Don’t be dumb! The politicians are lying to you! We need to adapt because that is the only solution!
Perfect timing for mandatory "zero emission" electric cars/trucks for everyone, when power production grids couldn’t handle anywhere near, what’s needed as it currently is…
Climate change is government made
One more reason in a list of hundreds as to why I’m leaving this cesspool, we call a nation before things get even worse.
Climate change. Turn off the sun cycles and maga solar burst. Othe planet’s in our solar system is also going through these climate issues.
With all the tunnels they have built underground who’s not saying that they’re siphon all the water out and causing all these floods that’s going on around the world.
The folks that run Las Vegas will not let lake mead get to dead pool. They rely too much on the hoover dam to power their city. No I’m not talking g about the mayor either. You know who I’m talking about. Draining lake Powell into lake mead is the only logical explanation. Leave the dam in place for storage purposes in the future if the water comes back. Filling lake mead is priority. Also get rid of the damn golf courses in Vegas and Phoenix. Golf courses don’t belong in the desert. Who wants to golf in 115 degree heat anyway.
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The amount of water we use is crazy, I wonder how much of it is being wasted in vegas for all the hotels and casinos. Not just Vegas but everywhere else. I think greed and money has to much to do with all of this and it will continue this way until it is all gone.
I wish NM had a good senator.
Too many people. It’s that simple.
Not just climate change, mismanagement contributed as well
The sky is falling! The climate is changing! Men menstruat!
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
The Earth will outlive mankind so sooner or later it will be able to rebalance itself.
This isn’t climate change, it’s resource mismanagment.
are you a climatologist
Dude it’s never been normal to fish on a lake in a boat in the desert!!!! What did people think would happen?