Adios, Las Vegas: Lake Mead May Run Dry by 2021

[lyngraphics]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330591,00.html

Bye-Bye Sodom and Gomorrah!

Notice how the headline features Las Vegas, even though this problem would affect a lot of other areas as well!

[funmudder]

West's largest storage reservoir faces increasing threats from a combination of factors, including human-induced climate change, growing populations and natural forces like drought and evaporation.

and then later on towards the end of this scare piece:


The two huge reservoirs have been studied in recent years using numerous hydrology models, but none forecast a dry Lake Mead within 15 years.

"We did a lot of studies, and none of them ever made Lake Mead go dry, period, end of story. We looked 100 years out, and Lake Mead never went dry," said Larry Dozier, deputy general manager of the Central Arizona Project.

Dozier had not seen the Scripps study but worked closely on other models that have produced different results.

"We did what we called our worst case, and it just didn't happen," he said.

Currently, Lake Mead is half-full, as is Lake Powell further upstream in Arizona. Both lakes help manage water resources for more than 25 million people in seven states.

[moosejive]

Unrestrained development will have to end, as well as the idea of being able to have green grass in a desert.....:doh Never meant to be....:tsk

[will729]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/110949

droughts throughout the world, in pictures.

[funmudder]

link (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335181,00.html)

More than 300,000 gallons of water per second were being released from Lake Powell above the dam near the Arizona-Utah border, enough water to fill the Empire State Building in 20 minutes....
The water level in the canyon will only rise a few feet as a result of the three-day flood, but officials hope that will be enough to restore sandbars on the Colorado River downstream from the dam.

Doesn't seem like they are really that worried about the water levels :idunno

[JewishbyChoice]

The Atlanta, GA area depends on a man-made lake (Lake Lanier) and you have probably heard this summer about the severe drought that is devastating the water levels there. And many people believe that Atlanta is up for the nomination of Sodom and Gomorrah.

[Whitecorvette]

Believe me, this city is Gomorrah.