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Las Vegas, Nevada home to 2 million Americans, will have no water to drink within a very few years. This won't be a water "shortage" with rationing and restrictions. Las Vegas is way past that stage. This will be a sudden and total, dry-tap shut-off.
I am not a scientist of any kind. Not a hydrologist, geologist, meteorologist, economist, agronomist or anything else. Some of those types of experts have been trying to tell you since 2007 that this thing is going to happen very soon but you became bored with the data and skeptical of their motives. I can tell you, however, exactly what is happening out there because I have seen it with my own eyes and I think you may listen this time because I have no axe to grind.
In fact, I have only been an expert on this topic for about 30 days. But, unlike nearly all of those 2 million people who should be alarmed, I have actually seen the problem in person. I have read the historical accounts and I have read the federal government's head-in-the-sand propaganda and read about the local politician's schemes and deals to solve the problem through bartering and "engineering." Unfortunately for Las Vegas, it's too late to engineer and there is nothing more to barter.
Here is the situation. Las Vegas gets more or less all of its water from Lake Mead. Lake Mead is just the name given to the reservoir of water that is backed up behind the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. The Colorado River, itself, is the whole ballgame for water in the far west. At least 6 U.S. states and the Country of [url=http://eiga.yokkaichi.org/sunbbs2/sunbbs.cgi?mode=form&no=1997&page=%22]woolrich sito ufficiale Compa[/url] Mexico are in a perennial struggle to claim the water that flows in the Colorado River. People in the Eastern U.S. have no conception of the way water is "claimed" and under the law of the West. While we are concerned with rivers as natural resources to be accessed, protected and shared, they in the West see water like we see oil. Rivers are there to be exploited. [url=http://www.rtnagel.com/airjordan.php]nike air jordan pas cher[/url] The water that [url=http://www.par5club.com/louboutin.php]louboutin[/url] flows in the river is there to be pumped out and used. The future can be damned. They even have a different way of measuring water. We speak of gallons of water but they buy and sell water [url=http://www.davidhabchy.com]barbour sale[/url] in units called "acre-feet". I do not want Easterners to understand what an acre-foot of water is. I maintain that even speaking in those terms serves to legitimize the craziness out there. The Hoover Dam was built 75 years ago during the great depression apparently to make work and to provide hydroelectric power. I guess it has produced a lot of electricity but what it really produced was the development of a massive city of 2 million people living in a barren dry desert. That new city of Las Vegas is 2,000 feet above sea level while the surface of the new Lake Mead was (10 years ago) a very substantial 800 feet lower than the thirsty city at 1,200 feet above sea level but still easily within range of the City's pipeline sitting only 20 miles to the southeast.
Southern Nevadans, thinking like Westerners do, tend to see the problem as primarily a legal issue rooted in the fact that they were late coming to the table. The historical deal that settled the water wars in the West is referred to as the Colorado Compact. It was signed in 1922 and has been interpreted by scores of Court decisions in the West. The agreement provides basically that the Colorado River water is mainly allocated to the farmers in Southern California because they were there yammering for it while Las Vegas was a still a sleepy hitching post. Those California lettuce farmers still hold those water rights and they never have to give them up. Up in Las Vegas however, the dam was finished in 1936 and suddenly, there in the desert, was a crystal blue reservoir from which rose sheer rock cliffs. Remember, however, that the dam doesn't create any water it just makes a big pool of it stand still. "Lake Mead" then was born in the desert with the completion of the Hoover Dam and it was a spectacular sight. I, personally, saw it first in 1986 and I was stunned by its beauty. I saw it again in 2011 and this time I was shocked and saddened. The lake is half empty. It is a disaster. The water level is down 200 feet! Docks hang out in the desert air hundreds of feet from the new shoreline. Marinas have been abandoned and some have been rebuilt way down where the water starts now. It is a pathetic mud puddle where once shone the mighty desert lake. Disheartened Rangers from the Bureau of Reclamation man toll booths and merely wave visitors in. They are ashamed to ask for the posted fee.
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One might argue that all they have to do is to stop letting water flow through the turbines at the Hoover Dam. Just hold back the river until the Lake refills. Well that could work but it would also ignite the 2nd Civil War. California would absolutely take up arms against Nevada if its "allocation" were appropriated by Las Vegas. I am not joking. Besides the Californians, the rest of us would find our supermarket produce aisle as barren as the high desert itself if the Imperial Valley of California did not get its Colorado River irrigation water every single year. Americans do not like food shortages. OK you say, if we can't stop sending Nevada water downstream then just get more water from upstream. Again the problem is that upstream is in Utah and Colorado. They see no reason to give up their water so that Steve Wynn can build another 10,000 hotel rooms on the strip. That water would have to be taken from them by force.
The water commissioners in Southern Nevada know all about these political realities and have therefore composed a "plan C". They will steal water from the Northern part of their own state. They will build a 300 mile pipeline. Seven feet in diameter! The pipeline will send groundwater pumped from under the surface in Northern Nevada rushing southward to Las Vegas. This is not a done deal. There are big problems. First of all the people up there don't want their counties transformed into a 21st century dust bowl by extracting all the groundwater that has taken thousands of years to accumulate. They really are going to fight this thing. Secondly it is just not going to be enough water to solve any problem. Oh they will build the pipe at a cost of billions and the water will flow for a while but then it [url=http://www.zgxmll.com/bbs/home.php?mod=space&uid=133650][/url] will gone and Lake Mead will be just as dry.
There is even more bad news. Since Las Vegas sits up above Lake Mead, its sewage drains back into the Lake. The treated sewage actually goes into a ditch called the "Las Vegas Wash." The Wash drains into Lake Mead. I hope they have the best sewage treatment technology in the world because they are condemned by nature to drinking out of the same basin that they discharge waste water into. As the Lake drops, the concentration of "runoff" from the Wash increases. The sewage picks up a lot of salt as it flows down the desert Wash. It's possible that even before Lake Mead runs dry, it will become an undrinkable salty sewer lake. These poor people have no future.
Remember, there is no solution. As you are reading this, however, Las Vegas is in the biggest building frenzy in modern history. They have 17 or the world's 20 largest hotels already operating. They are also finishing up a Jetson-like development called "City Center." Of course it is called City Center because it is far from the City Center. It is not really within Las Vegas at all but that matters little. It is immense and breathtaking. The scale of City Center is staggering. It is the largest privately funded development project in the history of the World. The final bill should be about 11 Billion dollars. In five years when Lake Mead goes dry, that City Center will not be worth 11 cents.
What will actually happen that particular day when the tap first yields dust and air? Remember this will likely happen while Obama is still in the White House. There will not be much time for debate. People will do what is natural and necessary to sustain human life. They will evacuate the so called "Las Vegas Valley." They will leave that very day, by car, plane, bus and train. No one will be able to stay behind. All real estate will become worthless overnight. There will be runs on all local banks and the supermarkets beverage aisles will be looted. Convoys of emergency water trucks will lumber in to save people from dying of thirst but most people will get out of town quickly. They will bundle up their cash and go to Southern California. The Banks that hold mortgages on City Center and other mega-developments will take it on the chin. The U.S. Treasury will [url=http://www.agentparadise.com]woolrich outlet[/url] bail them out again. Unlike New Orleans in 2006, however, there will be no plan for re-populating Las Vegas. It will just be impossible. The hotels will empty and stay empty forever. Looters will trash the great casinos and strip the hotel lobbies. The National Guard will roll Humvees up and down the strip, nervously training guns on civilian traffic that remains. Even the Air Force base will close in a matter of weeks.
As horrible as this scenario sounds the alternative may be worse. The only way Las Vegas can be saved is by stealing water from Utah or California. Nevada has already purchased and paid for an alliance with Arizona. California, so far at least, can't be bought. They may very well fight for their water. If shots are fired at all, it will happen at the Hoover Dam. The water must continue to flow under the dam. It's a real big deal however, that the dam is Federal Property. The President will have to protect it from both sides. National Guard units from 3 states will nervously stand in place a few miles from the dam while Obama addresses the nation and arm-twists western Senators. None will dare speak against his plan. To dissent will be to [url=http://www.thehygienerevolution.com/hollister.php]hollister[/url] encourage those who advocate a military confrontation. This will be a FEMA crisis that will make Hurricane Katrina look like a Sunday school picnic. Who will Obama side with, The Farmers or the Capitalists? The Electoral map would suggest that the farmers in California will continue to get their water. Obama will do what is necessary to deal [url=http://www.marrakech-hotel.fr]hollister[/url] with anarchy and riots but he will not allow an organized Civil War. This disaster, nevertheless, will doom his Presidency. The devastation and horror will be laid at his feet. History will record that he was found unprepared and unsteady in the crisis. The nation will turn its back on Las Vegas, blaming the citizens for not acting when they were warned. Rest in peace.
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