You Cali mofos might be bathing in bottled water soon- Lake Mead plummets to unprecedented low, 5th set of human remains discovered

Body found at Lake Mead by park rangers
Lake Mead's water levels are declining due to ongoing drought

The National Park Service (NPS) said Wednesday that a body had been recovered near Lake Mead's Boulder Islands.


An adult woman had gone missing in Nevada's Lake Mead National Recreation Area on June 30, 2022.

Park rangers located and recovered the body with the use of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV).

The Clark County medical examiner was contacted and headed to the scene to confirm the victim's identity and determine the cause of death.

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A vehicle towing personal watercraft drives past a sign welcoming visitors to the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on July 01, 2022 in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada.

The incident is under investigation.

NPS notes that there are seasonal trail closures around Lake Mead.

The ongoing drought has reshaped the park's shorelines, and of June, Lake Mead’s depth is the lowest it’s been since 1937.

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A sign for Lake Mead's launch ramp that says "closed"

As water levels decline, the park service pointed out that extending launch ramps has become more difficult and more expensive due to the topography.

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A WWII ear landing craft used to transport troops or tanks was revealed on the shoreline near the Lake Mead Marina as the waterline continues to lower at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on Thursday, June 30, 2022, in Boulder City.

Earlier this year, additional remains were found by Lake Mead boaters.

Those found in a barrel at the Lake Mead National Recreational Area in May were being investigated by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department as a homicide.

Body found at Lake Mead by park rangers | Fox News
 
Lake Mead Water Levels Dropping, Could Soon Be at Dead Pool Level

The water levels in Lake Mead are dropping, and could soon be at dead pool level.

Lake Mead, a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, is drying up because of the ongoing drought in the western United States, France 24 reported. The water moving through the Hoover Dam provides electricity for hundreds of thousands of people living across the area.

However, as the drought continues, the water continues to dry up, hurtling towards dead pool level—which will mean the dam's turbines will no longer be able to generate power.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, more than 20 percent of land in the western U.S. was determined to be in an "extreme of exceptional drought," as of March 8, 2022.

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This combination image shows low water levels at Lake Mead's Echo Bay in Nevada, left, and low water levels on cliffs at Lake Mead as seen from the Hoover Dam on the Nevada and Arizona border, right.

Steph McAfee an Associate Professor, and Nevada State Climatologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, told Newsweek that at a reservoir elevation of 895 feet, "water doesn't flow past the dam anymore."

"If it got to that point, water levels could still drop due to evaporation," McAfee said. "There's good evidence to suggest that climate change is playing a role here. A number of scientific papers have found that rising temperatures are reducing the amount of water flowing down the Colorado River and into Lake Mead.

"There were a couple of papers by Parks Williams and colleagues suggesting that climate change is not quite half the contribution to this drought. That research noted that it would still have been a drought without higher temperatures, just not as bad."
As Lake Mead continues to dry up, a myriad of strange finds are coming to light.

In May, as the Lake's bottom became exposed, human skeletal remains were discovered in a barrel at the bottom of the lake, CBS reported. Police determined that the remains were those of a shooting victim, believed to have died in the mid-1970s or 1980, which is when the shoes he had been wearing were manufactured.

Just a few days later, more human remains were found at Callville Bay. Police are investigating the cause of death.

"The last time Lake Mead was this low was in the late 1930s not too long after the dam was built," McAfee said, adding that the falling water levels are of concern for "many reasons."

"I'll highlight two," she said. "First, many people depend on the water from the Colorado River. Second, as water levels drop, generating electricity from hydro power gets less efficient."

Lake Mead Water Levels Dropping, Could Soon Be at Dead Pool Level (newsweek.com)
 
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This is silly. We already have solutions for these problems.

The first is to landscape with drought resistant plants. The next is to water these plants using reclaimed water from showers, storm drains and washing machines.

The third and most important step is converting agriculture to drip irrigation. Same thing Israel and Denmark started decades ago.

We've been fighting this water shortage with our feet bound and a hand tied behind our back. That's just plain stupid.
 
This is silly. We already have solutions for these problems.

The first is to landscape with drought resistant plants. The next is to water these plants using reclaimed water from showers, storm drains and washing machines.

The third and most important step is converting agriculture to drip irrigation. Same thing Israel and Denmark started decades ago.

We've been fighting this water shortage with our feet bound and a hand tied behind our back. That's just plain stupid.
1. Many believe its their right to use as much water as they can pay for, to fill private pools, water lawns, operate fountains etc...
2. Using reclaimed water would require discipline and or capital investment to simplify.
3. Using drip irrigation would require changing from entrenched farming practices and even more capital investment.
 
1. Many believe its their right to use as much water as they can pay for, to fill private pools, water lawns, operate fountains etc...
2. Using reclaimed water would require discipline and or capital investment to simplify.
3. Using drip irrigation would require changing from entrenched farming practices and even more capital investment.

1. That's why politicians finally need to stand up to these assholes and say "no!" Anyone who refuses needs to be voted out of office regardless of what party they represent. At the end of the day it doesn't really matter which party controls a state that can't support human life.

2. Retrofitting a house with a gray water tank costs $1,000. Done at scale would bring the price down even further. The water savings alone pay for themselves within a few years. Even less if the government offers subsidies and rebates like they do for electric cars.

I would also point out that California has already enacted similar programs to help people reduce their electricity use.

3. The alternative is to have water piped in from the midwest or east coast. Not only would this be way more expensive, you would lose up to 20% of the water through leaks.

You could also make more desalinization plants, but again not only is this expensive, it threatens marine life. Also, it does nothing to help Utah, Colorado, Arizona, or New Mexico.

At the end of the day the best solution for any shortage is to use less.
 
1. That's why politicians finally need to stand up to these assholes and say "no!" Anyone who refuses needs to be voted out of office regardless of what party they represent. At the end of the day it doesn't really matter which party controls a state that can't support human life.

2. Retrofitting a house with a gray water tank costs $1,000. Done at scale would bring the price down even further. The water savings alone pay for themselves within a few years. Even less if the government offers subsidies and rebates like they do for electric cars.

I would also point out that California has already enacted similar programs to help people reduce their electricity use.

3. The alternative is to have water piped in from the midwest or east coast. Not only would this be way more expensive, you would lose up to 20% of the water through leaks.

You could also make more desalinization plants, but again not only is this expensive, it threatens marine life. Also, it does nothing to help Utah, Colorado, Arizona, or New Mexico.

At the end of the day the best solution for any shortage is to use less.
Of course you aren't wrong. All I'm saying is that conservative politics (my rights) and capitalism (short term ROI) will as always get in the way of your good ideas. Its hardly ever the case that technological and scientific solutions aren't available to these types of problems.
 
Of course you aren't wrong. All I'm saying is that conservative politics (my rights) and capitalism (short term ROI) will as always get in the way of your good ideas. Its hardly ever the case that technological and scientific solutions aren't available to these types of problems.

That is literally the million dollar hurdle for practically all progress in the United States. If we don't step up now there's never going to be another chance.
 
Lake Mead and Lake Powell Drought

Federal crackdown to come, if water use is not reduced


Yeah this is getting bad very quickly and people begin to realize there’s really nothing you could do about this situation
 
Can Mississippi River Water Pipeline Save Lake Mead/Powell?



We could fill Lake Powell in less than a year with an aqueduct from Mississippi River

The best solution would be for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build an aqueduct from the Old River Control Structure on the Mississippi to Lake Powell, fill it, and then send more water from there down the Colorado to fill lake Mead.


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Fourth set of human remains discovered at Lake Mead since May

LAS VEGAS (KLAS)– Another set of skeletal remains was discovered at Lake Mead on Saturday morning, the National Park Service said.

National Park Service Rangers received an emergency call reporting the discovery of human skeletal remains at Swim Beach in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area around 11:15 a.m.

Rangers responded to recover the remains with help from a dive team from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

The cause of death and the identity of the remains has not been determined, and no other details have been released.

This is the fourth discovery of human remains at Lake Mead since May. The first set was found May 1 when a body was found in a barrel near Hemenway Harbor.

Less than a week later, additional human remains were found at Callville Bay. The third set of remains was found on July 25, when a person at Swim Beach near Boulder Beach reported human remains to the National Park Service.

One man, Las Vegas native Todd Kolod believes the remains found at Callville Bay could be his father who died more than six decades ago. Nexstar’s KLAS reports Kolod was 3 years old when his father Daniel, then 22, drowned in Callville Bay in 1958. His body was never recovered.

Investigators have not confirmed the identities of the remains found at Lake Mead this summer, including those found at Callville Bay.


Fourth set of human remains discovered at Lake Mead since May | The Hill
 
5th set of human remains found in receding Lake Mead
The lake's water levels could soon reach "dead pool" status, experts say.


Another set of human remains were found in Lake Mead near Las Vegas, the second time this month that remains have been found in the country's largest reservoir, officials said Wednesday.

The remains were discovered at Swim Beach in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area around 8:00 p.m. Monday, according to the National Park Service.

With the help of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's dive team, park rangers responded and set up a perimeter to retrieve the body, the NPS said.
The Clark County Medical Examiner was contacted and is working to identify the person and discover the cause of death, the park service said.

This is the fifth time since May and the second time this month that human remains have been found in Lake Mead, where water levels are receding at a historic rate.

Lake Mead, formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, supplies drinking water to millions of people in California, Arizona, Nevada and part of Mexico.

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In this June 10, 2022, file photo, a formerly sunken boat sits upright into the air with its stern stuck in the mud along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, near Boulder City, Nev.

Officials said the water levels are so depleted, they could soon reach "dead pool" status, in which the water is too low to flow downstream to the Hoover Dam. According to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the minimum water surface level needed to generate power at the dam is 1,050 feet.

On May 7, human skeletal remains were found near the lake's Callville Bay, according to NPS. The discovery came a week after the decayed body of a man was found stuffed in a steel barrel near the reservoir's Hemenway Fishing Pier, over 20 miles from Callville Bay, according to Las Vegas police.

On July 25 and Aug. 6, human remains were also discovered at Swim Beach.

5th set of human remains found in receding Lake Mead - ABC News (go.com)

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New water cuts coming for Southwest as Colorado River falls into Tier 2 shortage

(CNN)An extraordinary drought in the West is drying up the Colorado River and draining the nation's largest reservoirs -- Lake Mead and Lake Powell. And amid the overuse of the river and the aridification of the region, the federal government is implementing new mandatory water cuts and asking states to devise a plan to save the river basin.

The federal government announced Tuesday the Colorado River will operate in a Tier 2 shortage condition for the first time starting in January as the West's historic drought has taken a severe toll on Lake Mead.
According to a new projection from the Department of the Interior, Lake Mead's water level will be below 1,050 feet above sea level come January -- the threshold required to declare a Tier 2 shortage starting in 2023.

The Tier 2 shortage means Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will have to further reduce their Colorado River use beginning in January. California will not yet have cuts made to the water they receive from the Colorado River.
Of the impacted states, Arizona will face the largest cuts -- 592,000 acre-feet -- or approximately 21% of the state's yearly allotment of river water.
"Every sector in every state has a responsibility to ensure that water is used with maximum efficiency. In order to avoid a catastrophic collapse of the Colorado River System and a future of uncertainty and conflict, water use in the Basin must be reduced," Interior's assistant secretary for water and science Tanya Trujillo said in a statement.

It was just a year ago that the Department of the Interior declared the first shortage on the Colorado River -- a Tier 1. But the past 12 months did not bring enough rain and snow. Lake Mead's level has been around 1,040 feet this summer, just 27% of its full capacity.
The growing concern is that the mandatory cuts announced today -- part of a system that was updated as recently as 2019 -- aren't enough to save the river in the face of a historic, climate change-driven drought. States, water managers and tribes are now back at the negotiating table to figure out how to solve the West's water crisis.
"We thought we were good, but the last few years have been so dry that we realized those tier reductions weren't enough and aren't enough," Bill Hasencamp, the Colorado River resources manager with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, told CNN. "So the two things we're focused on is how do we get through the next three years without the system crashing, and then how do we develop a long term plan to sustain the Colorado River."
'There's only so much water'
The Colorado River's water was divvied up among seven states in the West a century ago. The pact gave half of the river's water to the Upper Basin states (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico) and half to the Lower Basin (California, Arizona and Nevada). Mexico -- through which the river flows before it reaches the Gulf of California -- was also guaranteed an allotment.
There was one major problem: Having been written in the 1920s, at a time when precipitation was higher than normal, the pact overestimated how much water the Colorado River carries. It also did not account for the West's booming population growth and its hotter and drier future in the face of the climate crisis.

At a June Senate hearing, Bureau of Reclamation chief Camille Touton laid out a stark warning. In order to stabilize the Colorado River Basin, states and water districts must come up with a plan by August 15 to cut 2 to 4 million acre-feet of water usage by next year. (An acre-foot is the amount of water that would fill one acre a foot deep -- roughly 326,000 gallons.)
Touton's proposed cut is a massive amount -- the high end of the target is about 25% less water than states currently receive. And the low end of the target represents the vast majority of Arizona's yearly allotment of Colorado River water.

Touton also made clear in June that if the states cannot come up with a plan, the federal government will act.
"It is in our authorities to act unilaterally to protect the system, and we will protect the system," she said at the time. "We need to see the work. We need to see the action. Let's get to the table and let's figure this out by August."
But Touton on Tuesday did not specify any new deadlines that might be set for states to come up with a plan for the drastic cuts.
"Today we're starting the process and more information will follow as far as the actions we'll take in that process," Touton said on Tuesday. "I want to continue to push on the need for partnership in this space and the need for collaboration and finding a consensus solution. Not just for next year but for the future."

Administration officials indicated they did not want to impede state negotiations and wanted to focus on using federal money from climate and infrastructure bills to make improvements to Western water infrastructure.
US Deputy Secretary of the Interior Tommy Beaudreau called the current situation with state negotiations "a complex environment."
"There are reasons for encouragement," Beaudreau told reporters Tuesday. "The states have come together to try to hammer out voluntary solutions, this is a complex environment."
But inter-state negotiations are not going well.
John Entsminger, the general manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, told CNN that so far not enough of the stakeholders have put forth proposals that would get the basin to Touton's target. He said he hopes the federal government proposes "some pretty strong measures" that could be acted on


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New water cuts coming for Arizona, Nevada as Colorado River falls into Tier 2 shortage - CNN
 
I'm amazed and then not surprised that it has gotten to this point. we as human beings are flat out horrendous when it comes to adjusting anything for the better.
 
Water from the Great Lakes can be pumped into the Mississippi River. The Great Lakes make up 20% of the Earth’s fresh drinking water.

The only other option is desalination of the oceans.

The tech is there to do it. Just like anything it will cost money. Along with the Will to do it.

Stay away from our water.
Y’all in here suggesting how to start the real next war​
 
I don't understand why we need pristine water for our toilets and to do laundry.
 
I'm amazed and then not surprised that it has gotten to this point. we as human beings are flat out horrendous when it comes to adjusting anything for the better.
Its the result of unchecked capitalism where every natural resource is equated to a commodity, bought and sold to the highest bidder. Thus there is little or no regard for the environment and those that don't participate in that market at a significant level.
 
By the end of the summer, u will be able to walk across Lake Mead without getting your kneecaps wet.
 
As usual, China is way ahead of this shit hole country we call America…

China’s $62 Billion Water Transfer Project
The Chinese government is building a $62 billion South-North Water Transfer Project.

The project would divert 44.8 billion cubic meters of water per year from the Yangtze River in southern China to the Yellow River Basin in arid northern China.

This is equivalent to nearly half the amount of water consumed in California annually.


 
As usual, China is way ahead of this shit hole country we call America…

China’s $62 Billion Water Transfer Project
The Chinese government is building a $62 billion South-North Water Transfer Project.

The project would divert 44.8 billion cubic meters of water per year from the Yangtze River in southern China to the Yellow River Basin in arid northern China.

This is equivalent to nearly half the amount of water consumed in California annually.



call me when they make cheap water desalinization plants


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Egypt Is Building The World’s Largest Artificial River In The Desert


They mustve found more evidence the True Egyptians were

Kniggas... so time to flood that shit up...

I promise you if you were to start digging up under a dried out lake mead, you will find tons

of REAL AMERICAN KNIGGA history buried under that bitch..
 
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