Dear Editor,
What will happen to Las Vegas and California when water and electricity from Lake Mead stops? How will this affect you in Colorado City? Where will millions of people go for water? It is estimated that Lake Mead has got about another 90 feet before the turbines at Hoover Dam will stop producing electricity and there will be no more downriver outflow past Hoover Dam.
Lake Mead was full 21 years ago. Today it’s at 27% the lowest level since it was created in 1937.
Lake Mead is a system of 5 reservoirs that still turn the turbines at Hoover Dam which is only made possible by poaching water from lakes upstream on the Colorado River.
Science is no longer a reflection of nature; politics has stepped in, just like with Operation Covid. Pseudoscience media blames Mead drying up due to global warming, but lake levels are determined primarily by two things: input and outflow.
Rain and snowmelt goes in, usage/outflow going out. It works the same with Colorado City’s Lake Beckwith.
Since 2016 snowfall in the mountains has been close to normal. Then why the drastic drop in water levels? It is due primarily by usage or outflow, which is controlled by politics and overbuilding.
Just like in Colorado City!
Building huge cities like Phoenix, LA and Vegas in the middle of the desert, then populating them with millions of people seemed like a good idea back in the 40s.
But tomorrow has arrived!
Population is becoming overpopulation. Colorado City Bureaucrats still have a small window of time to learn from Vegas and LA and stop handing out water taps, but then again bureaucrats usually are incapable of thinking at that level. They talk like they have it all under control but they will be ultimately responsible for a looming disaster. They got a small taste of water shortage in the recent past.
When Las-Vegas City Commissioner was asked about limiting further housing developments because of increase water demands, he mumbled something about there would be no restriction whatsoever for building more houses. Sound familiar? Money, Money, Moneyeee!
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