NG: Why is America running out of water?

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So, the beginning of finally going back to nature.

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2 minutes ago, Skintime said:

So, the beginning of finally going back to nature.

 

Yeah.  One of the other things they should be doing is what they are doing in Peru and Africa where they harvest water from fog.  Seems like San Fran would be a good place to implement this:

 

 

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City of Gunter Still Has Water; Residents Under Emergency Water Restrictions

 

The City of Gunter says the downtown water well is maintaining the city's water levels after concerns the city would be without water by Thursday morning; residents are still being asked to severely restrict water usage for the time being.

 

In an update on Thursday afternoon, the city manager said the downtown water well is keeping the water flowing but Emergency Water Restrictions remain.

 

The city issued an emergency notification to all City of Gunter water customers on Wednesday night that said in part, "due to excessive water consumption, the city's water storage tanks are unable to refill."

 

Residents are asked to stop any non-essential water usage until further notice, which means no outdoor watering and not using dishwashers and washing machines. Residents have also been asked to restrict the use of showers and sinks.

 

On Wednesday, the city said notified residents of water restrictions because two of the city's three water wells had failed after running continuously because of the extreme heat and water demand. Gunter Mayor Mark Millar said to get by, the city of Sherman had supplied Gunter water through Mustang Water Supply.

 

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‘Dead bodies at Lake Mead’: Las Vegas law firm turning heads with new billboard

 

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What’s in your drinking water? If you live in one of these states, it might soon be recycled sewage

 

The idea of drinking water that was recently sewage swirling down your toilet bowl, shower drain, or kitchen sink may sound pretty icky. But experts say it’s actually nothing to be squeamish about — and it might be coming to your state and city soon.

 

It’s a water recycling method known as direct potable reuse, or DPR, which sends highly treated sewage water almost directly to a drinking water system for distribution to communities. It’s legal in Texas, and legal on a case-by-case basis in Arizona. Multiple other states are in the process of formulating regulations to legalize it too, including California, Colorado, and Florida.

 

The water produced by DPR meets federal drinking water quality standards, experts say. And there’s a growing movement to urge people to warm up to the idea of DPR and other sewage recycling methods, which were once dismissively labeled “toilet-to-tap.”

 

“People need that change in mindset, forgetting where your water came from and focusing more on how clean it is when it’s in front of you,” Dan McCurry, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Southern California, tells CNBC Make It.

 

The process might not sound appetizing, but DPR can prove invaluable when drinkable water becomes scarce.

 

Climate change alters patterns in rain and snowmelt, which sends less fresh water to crucial, natural drinking water sources like the Colorado River, Lake Mead and Lake Powell — all of which face severe water shortages amid extreme drought conditions. Growing populations that demand more drinking water will only stretch those sources thinner, making methods like DPR all the more essential.

 

Two cities in Texas — Big Spring and Wichita Falls —  have used DPR to bolster drinking water supply so far. El Paso is planning to follow suit, alongside major cities like Los Angeles and San Diego once state DPR regulations are in place.

 

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Mark Kelly: ‘So important that the other states step up’ in Southwest drought

 

The responsibility of mitigating a drought across the Southwest is on all states in the region, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

 

“We need the other upper- and lower-basin states to step up and do their part,” along with Arizona, the Democrat said to host Jake Tapper. “If they do that, we’re not going to have ... a catastrophic collapse of the system. We will be able to stabilize it.”

 

Water levels on the Colorado River are so low that a formal shortage was declared last week, and there is concern that Lake Powell, a key reservoir along the Arizona-Utah border, could reach disastrous levels in 2023.

 

The state of the drought is currently “not existential,” Kelly said, highlighting provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act for water resiliency and storage, as well as funds to address the drought in the Inflation Reduction Act.

 

However, he said the potential consequences of inaction could be seen across the country, because of farming in the region: “It’s also about food security for our entire nation,” Kelly said.

 

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Kim Kardashian, Kevin Hart and Sylvester Stallone are accused of massive water waste

 

Some of Los Angeles' most famous celebrities are getting put on blast after being outed for their excessive water use amid a severe drought emergency throughout Southern California.

Kim Kardashian and her sister Kourtney are among Southern California's worst offenders, Mike McNutt, a spokesman for the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District told NPR.

 

The pair have received "notices of exceedance" from the district, which serves the wealthy cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Hidden Hills and Westlake Village. Those notices are given to district residents who have surpassed their monthly water usage budget allotted by the department at least four times, McNutt said.

 

And the reality stars are not the only ones.

 

Comedian Kevin Hart, former NBA star Dwyane Wade and his wife, actress Gabrielle Union, and Sylvester Stallone have also continued to exceed district limits despite repeated warnings and fines. Now, the water department could install flow restriction devices that can reduce gushing showers to a mere trickle, and would almost certainly turn the rolling lawns surrounding their respective mansions brown.

 

The violations were first reported by the Los Angeles Times. On Tuesday, McNutt confirmed the data, adding that, in all, more than 1,600 residents are breaking the rules.

 

He noted that the district is 100% reliant on imported water from the Sierra Nevada mountains 400 miles away. "We have no groundwater, we have no other alternative sources to draw from," he added.

 

McNutt said the Kardashians have flouted their official water allowance by 150% or more for several months since water conservation efforts were first implemented at the end of last year.

 

Meanwhile, a representative for Sylvester Stallone and his model wife, Jennifer Flavin, told the Times that their property has many large, mature fruit trees that would be at risk without sufficient watering. In June, the couple used 230,000 excess gallons of water – more than 533% than their allocated budget.

 

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Lake Mead is finally rising again; Here’s why

 

Over the last 26 days, Lake Mead has risen 2 feet 8 inches. Before that, for six months, Lake Mead’s water level had been on a steep downward trajectory.

 

By the numbers, Lake Mead has risen each of the last 26 days by .8 inches a day on average. In total to date, this is 32.88 inches. As of Aug, 22 Lake Mead’s water level was 1,043.45 feet above sea level. It reached a low of 1,040.71 feet on July 27.

 

 

According to the Bureau of Reclamation, to raise the lake’s water level one inch, at its current depth, it takes approximately an additional 68,000 acre-feet of water. An acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons.

 

This means that approximately 176,800 acre-feet of water have been added to Lake Mead over the last 26 days. Written another way, almost 58 billion gallons of water have been added to the lake.

 

One of the most common questions when talking about the water level at Lake Mead is speculating why the lake is rising. The prevailing thought is because of the recent monsoonal flow that has brought rain to the area for almost four weeks.

 

While this has added to the lake level it’s not the only reason according to the Bureau of Reclamation.

 

“Recent storm events and runoff into the tributaries that enter Lake Mead as well as reduced releases from Hoover – due to a decrease in downstream demand – are the leading cause for the recent increases in Lake Mead’s elevation,” Bureau of Reclamation Public Affairs Officer Michelle Helms told 8 News Now. Helms added that as of Aug. 19 there are no significant changes to operations at Glen Canyon Dam.

 

So more rain and less demand have led to the increase in Lake Mead’s water level. This, however, is not sustainable since the majority of water in the Colorado River basin – including Lake Mead – comes from melting snow in the Colorado Rockies and the monsoon normally subsides over the next month.

 

The Department of Interior – which oversees the Bureau of Reclamation – announced new drought restrictions will begin in 2023. The reduction is the second straight year of reductions after the federal government declared a water shortage last August.

 

Arizona’s allocation will drop by 21%, and California will see no new cuts under drought restrictions because the state has “banked” water. Mexico will lose 7% of its water from the river. The cuts are part of “Tier 2” cuts that were expected as the drought continues.

 

Nevada’s share of the Colorado River drops to 275,000 acre-feet per year under the Tier 2 cuts. The state used only 242,000 acre-feet last year and is on pace to use about the same this year.

 

Lake Mead’s water level increase caused by recent rain and decreased downstream demand account for approximately 64% of the total water used by Nevada each year.

 

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Klamath Irrigation District says it will defy federal order to halt farmer water deliveries

 

The Klamath Irrigation District in Southern Oregon plans to defy a U.S. government order issued last week for a halt to water deliveries to farmers in the drought-stricken basin.

 

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation manages the Klamath Project, which includes Klamath Irrigation District and serves 266 square miles of farmland around the Oregon-California border. A limited allocation of water was allowed for irrigators from Upper Klamath Lake this year because of extreme drought.

 

The bureau has said the project is now out of water and ordered a shutdown last week, but irrigation district directors met Monday and authorized the district's manager, Gene Souza, to continue operations, the Capital Press reported.

 

The district operates a canal that provides water to nine irrigation districts encompassing about 191 square miles.

 

Souza said in a letter to Alan Heck, acting area manager for the U.S. agency, that it has not provided a legal basis for shutting down the project and that doing so would deny farmers of the water they have legal rights to receive.

 

“I am not doing my duty if I just comply, because I do not have a legal justification to deny the people I serve their property,” Souza told the Capital Press.

 

A spokesperson for the Bureau of Reclamation could not immediately be reached for comment, the Capital Press reported.

 

The agency has said it would take an adaptive approach to project operations in 2022.

 

Under the Endangered Species Act, the agency must uphold protections for several species of fish, including shortnose and Lost River suckerfish in Upper Klamath Lake and coho salmon in the lower Klamath River.

 

The federal bureau initially allocated 15% of full demand for irrigators starting on April 15. Officials said that if inflows to Upper Klamath Lake exceeded expectations, they would set aside 50% of the additional water for irrigators.

 

The Klamath Falls area experienced slightly above-average precipitation in May and June. As of Aug. 1, the project's water supply had increased while maintaining a minimum lake elevation for suckers to access critical habitat.

 

Brad Kirby, manager of the Tulelake Irrigation District in Tulelake, California, said shutting off water now could mean disaster for some farmers.

 

"We are looking at severely reduced production,” Kirby said about crops including alfalfa. “But for row crops like potatoes and onions, there is essentially no production unless you have water through the end of the irrigation season.”

 

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Oceanside Awarded $9.9 Million Federal Grant for Pure Water Recycling Project

 

Pure Water Oceanside has been awarded a $9.9 million grant following a recommendation by the office of U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, it was announced Tuesday.

 

The funding will be awarded via the Bureau of Reclamation’s WaterSMART: Title XVI WIIN Water Reclamation and Reuse Projects funding, a statement from the city read. Oceanside is one of 25 applicants named for this funding.

 

Through its WaterSMART program, the Bureau of Reclamation provides grants to water districts and communities to “reclaim and reuse wastewater and impaired ground and surface water in the Western United States,” according to the bureau.

 

Pure Water Oceanside is intended to purify recycled water to create a new local source of drinking water that is clean, safe, drought-proof and environmentally sound. When finished, the project is slated to provide more than 32% of the city’s water supply — between 3 and 5 million gallons per day.

 

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The fight against drought in California has a new tool: The restrictor

 

The pretty, cloudless blue skies over perfectly manicured lawns represent an ugly reality for California's Las Virgenes Municipal Water District as it grapples with the historic megadrought ravaging the American West.

 

Despite a lack of any measurable rain in months, the carpet of lush, green grass likely means homeowners are either not getting the message about the dire need for water conservation, or they are ignoring the warnings.

But now, the water district has found a way to get customers' attention. When customer service representatives are working in the different neighborhoods, they keep an eye out for any water restriction violations. And for repeat offenders, officials are trying something new: adding water restrictors to the pipes, which sharply reduce the home's water supply.

 

The District covers some of the most sought-after real estate in Southern California, northwest of Hollywood and Beverly Hills, including areas along the Ventura Freeway.

Las Virgenes imports all of its water from the State Water Project, which pipes runoff from the northern Sierra Nevada mountains to Southern California. However, at the end of winter, the snowpack was just 4% of normal, forcing unprecedented restrictions. Las Virgenes is only getting 5% of its requested water supplies this year.

 

"We're having to supplement the water that we have been getting from the State Water Project," said Mike McNutt, public affairs and communications manager for Las Virgenes, who added the district is pulling water from its Las Virgenes Reservoir, its stash for emergency needs, just south of Thousand Oaks.

Right now, McNutt confirmed it is 72% full; at full capacity, it is a six-month supply. "We've had to take significant measures to curb water usage in order for us to ensure that there's long-term water reliability meaning moving into the fall and winter," McNutt noted.

Nearly all of California is in severe or worse drought (the highest three designations), per the latest US Drought monitor. Several severely deficient years of rain and snow have punctuated a 20-year long megadrought scientists say is being fueled by warmer and drier conditions brought on by climate change.

 

In light of the shortage and the prolonged drought, Las Virgenes has mandated residents cut their outdoor watering by half as required by the unprecedented order from its distributor, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Outdoor watering makes up 70% of most customer's water usage, the water district says, so cutting down on irrigation can have a huge impact on conservation.

 

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Tourism is sucking Utah dry. Now it faces a choice - growth or survival?

 

It was a typically hot summer day in Utah’s Zion national park, where early-afternoon heat hovered near 100F, even in the shadows of the red peaks soaring overhead. But the extreme conditions did little to dissuade the throngs of tourists who trudged into the chalky brown waters of the Virgin River.

 

The parking lot at Zion – one of the United States’s busiest national parks – had been full since 8am. Many of the visitors were there to scramble into the shallows of the Virgin River for the ever-popular and Instagrammable Narrows hike.

 

Thousands of tourists descend on this waterway year after year, even as this region and others across the American west fall deeper into drought. Fueled by the climate crisis and the overuse of dwindling water resources, the drought threatens the safety and sustainability of the spectacular sights; at the same time, tourists and the industries that cater to them contribute to an unfolding crisis in the cherished lands that brought them there.

 

“The point is not just how out of touch tourists are when they come and visit,” says Martha Ham, an environmental advocate with non-profit Conserve Southwest Utah, noting the lush lawns in surrounding residential developments. “We are not facing [the fact] that we live in a desert or dealing with what our natural limits are,” she said. “It is a historic problem and it catches up with you. It is catching up with us here.”

 

Just beyond the park, the once-sleepy city of St George is rapidly expanding. Tucked into one of the hottest and driest cornersof south-west Utah, the gateway community is the fastest growing city in the US. Tourism has driven new residential growth and businesses in an area that could soon see water shortages – and it’s only expected to get worse.

 

Though there have been recent moves to try to curb consumption, Utah already has the highest per-capita water usage in the country. In Washington county – home to Zion and St George – usage was an alarming 285 gallons a person a day in 2020, more than double what those in Las Vegas, just hours to the south, use.

 

“There’s a cowboy-level of understanding of water that is not very sophisticated – and not very sustainable,” Frankel added.

 

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LA restricts water flow to wasteful celebrity mansions: ‘No matter how rich, we’ll treat you the same’

 

Los Angeles is living through a historic drought, but that hasn’t stopped some of its most famous residents from keeping their mega mansion lawns and ornate gardens well watered. In response, local authorities have turned to a surprisingly simple trick for keeping the wealthiest in check.

 

A formerly sunken boat rests on a now-dry section of lakebed at the drought-stricken Lake Mead, Nevada.

That solution is a tiny metal disc known as a “flow restrictor”. The restrictor can be installed in minutes over the pipes of chronic wasters, dramatically slowing down a home’s water flow.

 

Restrictors have already been placed on homes owned by multiple celebrities –including the comedian Kevin Hart, rapper The Game, and Kourtney Kardashian’s ex, Scott Disick, according to water district records reviewed by the Guardian. Other famous names could be next – addresses linked to Kim Kardashian, Sylvester Stallone and Madonna have all been included on lists of violators who were eligible for flow restrictors.

 

For water authorities, it’s an experiment in holding the super-rich accountable to the same standards as everyone else.

 

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This California City Is Rapidly Running Out of Water

 

Coalinga, California, is set to run out of water before the end of this year.

 

The city’s only water source is an aqueduct that is managed by the federal government. Officials think that the water is going to run dry before the end of 2022, the Washington Post reported.

 

Local officials are scrambling for options. If their water supply comes up short, Coalinga politicians are going to have to buy water from the open market. It’s amazingly expensive and could impact Coalinga’s ability to provide other services for residents, according to Fox 26 News. Water on that market currently costs up to $2,500 an acre-foot, or 326,000 gallons, which would cost the city millions of dollars to obtain the necessary water. “Our citizens cannot afford a thousand dollar or a thousand percent increase on their water bills,” Adam Adkisson, a Coalinga city council member, told the local news station.

 

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This California City Is Rapidly Running Out of Water

 

Coalinga, California, is set to run out of water before the end of this year.

 

The city’s only water source is an aqueduct that is managed by the federal government. Officials think that the water is going to run dry before the end of 2022, the Washington Post reported.

 

Local officials are scrambling for options. If their water supply comes up short, Coalinga politicians are going to have to buy water from the open market. It’s amazingly expensive and could impact Coalinga’s ability to provide other services for residents, according to Fox 26 News. Water on that market currently costs up to $2,500 an acre-foot, or 326,000 gallons, which would cost the city millions of dollars to obtain the necessary water. “Our citizens cannot afford a thousand dollar or a thousand percent increase on their water bills,” Adam Adkisson, a Coalinga city council member, told the local news station.

 

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Meanwhile, Cowabunga is surfing the half pipe.

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Drought gives visitors rare chance to reach historic landmark on foot

 

Thousands in Missouri traveled to the Mississippi River Sunday as receding water levels made it easier for people to explore the major waterway’s many natural wonders.

 

As the water levels of the Mississippi River continued to fall due to a prolonged drought, visitors flocked to the river to see what the receding shoreline revealed.

 

On any other day before the water levels began to drop, Tower Rock would have been an island within the main channel, north of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Now, however, a dry stretch of land allows visitors to walk to the once-isolated landmark.

 

Video of the parched river over the weekend showed people traversing the connecting piece of land that was once underwater. Kids ran around collecting rocks while other people snapped photos of the landscape or tried their hand at scaling Tower Rock.

 

Tower Rock, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, can only be reached when the water level is below 1.5 feet at the Chester, Illinois, river gauge, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. As of Monday, the water level at the gauge was 0.22 of a foot. It had consistently measured under the 1.5-foot threshold starting on the morning of Oct. 11 around midnight.

 

On Sunday, thousands of people had traveled toward the river, creating a massive traffic jam that stretched for miles.

 

A person attempts to scale Tower Rock, which was an island in the Mississippi River before the water levels began to drop. (Logan Poole/LMS)

 

Tower Rock is typically only accessible by boat, though it is possible to walk to when the water level at the gauge in Chester, Illinois, is below 1.5 feet. (Missouri Department of Conservation)

 

The receding shoreline continues along the river, and in Memphis, Tennessee, a large swath of the exposed riverbed could be seen from the observation deck of the Memphis Pyramid.

 

The water levels at Memphis dropped to the second lowest on record for the location, at -10.37 feet early Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service. As of Sunday, the water levels had dropped to the location's lowest recording in a decade. As it crossed the -10-foot threshold Sunday night, it slowly began approaching its lowest water level record of -10.7 feet that was set on July 10, 1988.

 

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Sal****er is moving up the Mississippi River. Here's what's being done to stop it

 

Ducks have taken roost on a sandy strip along the Mississippi River – a bank that's typically underwater.

 

"We have this nice little beach here that Black-bellied whistling ducks are enjoying," says Heath Jones, chief of emergency management at the New Orleans District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

 

Drought has sent water levels plunging to near record lows on the Mississippi River. A river gauge near Corps headquarters registers just 3 feet above sea level.

 

"It's approaching some historical lows that we've had here," Jones said on Oct. 19 as he looked out from the river levee.

 

The meandering Mississippi has a cool blue-green hue – different than the muddy current that typically rushes by.

 

More than a third of the rain in the United States ends up in the Mississippi River system. Jones says with little or no rainfall coming from the Midwest, the drought is causing problems along the river. Ships and barges are running aground, and navigation is slowed up and down the busy shipping corridor.

 

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Mississippi River drought will impact your grocery bill. Here's how

 

Expansive drought across the Midwest and Central Plains have turned the once-mighty Mississippi River into barely a trickle in parts of the central and southern U.S. CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir breaks down how the drought will impact consumers.
 

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Texas’ plan to provide water for a growing population virtually ignores climate change

 

This small South Texas border community 200 miles southwest of San Antonio hugs one of the largest reservoirs in Texas, along what was once one of the nation’s mightiest rivers. But on a hot summer day in mid-August, Zapata was dangerously close to running out of water.

 

Joe Rathmell, the Zapata County judge, remembers getting the call from a worried water plant manager. It wasn’t good. The only thing flowing into the county’s intake station seemed to be mud. The pumps were failing as they struggled to suck the silty water from Falcon Lake.

 

“We had what I would argue was the worst water along the whole [Rio Grande],” Rathmell said.

 

This summer, as Texas baked — the hottest July on record fueled its worst drought in a decade — water levels in reservoirs across the state fell dramatically, prompting hundreds of mandatory water restrictions.

 

By late October, water storage in Texas reservoirs had fallen to 67% of capacity, down from 80% a year earlier, according to state data. Reservoirs on the Rio Grande saw their lowest levels in decades in August — Amistad Reservoir dropped to 30% of capacity, its lowest level since 1998, while Falcon Lake, about 50 miles south of Laredo, dropped to 9% of its capacity, the lowest level in two decades, before rebounding slightly after heavy September rains.

 

Zapata County, desperate for water, requested money and equipment to dredge the mud away from its intake station. The federal government gave $2 million to help and the local congressman, Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, hosted a celebratory press conference when the dredging equipment arrived.

 

But it was a temporary fix for a long-term crisis: Climate change has brought higher temperatures that dry soil more quickly, enhancing the effects of drought and causing less rain to flow into Texas’ rivers and streams. At the same time, longer-lasting and more intense heat brought by climate change accelerates water evaporation from Texas’ reservoirs.

 

“It’s not going to go away,” Rathmell said. “Over the years, our area does seem to be getting drier. It seems like it rains less year after year.”

 

“And of course,” he added, “the demand for water just keeps increasing.”

 

Surface water — mainly rivers and reservoirs — accounts for roughly half of Texas’ existing water supply, and is becoming less and less reliable for the state’s fast-growing population as the effects of climate change intensify, experts say. Hotter temperatures brought by climate change made the drought across the U.S. and Europe several times more likely this year, a study by international climate scientists found. And scientists who study Texas rivers predict that climate change will reduce their flows in the decades to come.

 

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As Drought Drops Water Level in the Mississippi, Shipwrecks Surface and Worries Rise

 

Along the drought-stricken Mississippi River, a world usually hidden beneath the waves has been basking under the sun. In recent weeks, new islands have breached the surface, as have the hulls of sunken ships and a vast array of lost marine equipment. The diminished waterway that remains has been clogged with barges, stuck in the mud or waiting their turn to press ahead down a narrowed channel.

 

 

Many who live along the river have ventured out, on foot and by boat, to marvel at the unsettling spectacle.

 

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These are the driest reservoirs in California

 

Despite recent rain storms across the state, California’s historic drought shows no signs of slowing down any time soon.

 

With the lack of meaningful regular precipitation, capacity at California’s reservoirs continue to decline, putting stress on the state’s water supply.

 

Across the board, nearly all of California’s major water supply reservoirs managed by the California Department of Water Resources are well below historic averages.

 

The state’s largest water reservoirs, Lake Oroville in Butte County and Shasta Lake in Shasta County, currently around half of historical averages.

 

Shasta, the largest state reservoir with a capacity of 4,552,000 acre-feet of water, is currently at 31% capacity. Historically, capacity at Shasta Lake is usually around 57% this time of year.

 

Lake Oroville, which has a capacity of about 3,537,000 acre-feet of water, is in even more dire straits. As of Nov. 14, Oroville is at 29% capacity, exactly half of the historic average of 58%.

 

An acre-foot is approximately 326,000 gallons.

 

While the state’s largest reservoirs are already at shockingly low levels, a handful of smaller water supplies are even drier.

 

Pine Flat Reservoir in Fresno County has the lowest capacity of the state’s reservoirs at only 16%. With a maximum capacity of 1 million acre-feet of water, Pine Flat currently only holds approximately 160,000 acre-feet.

 

Lake McClure in Mariposa County currently sits at 18% of its 1,024,600 acre-foot capacity. Historically this time of year, the reservoir is usually at around 42% capacity.

 

Trinity Lake is the third-lowest reservoir in the state at 22% capacity. The Trinity County reservoir has a capacity of more than 2,447,000 acre-feet and historically sits at 38% capacity this time of year.

 

San Luis, Casitas, Folsom and Sonoma reservoirs are all around 25% capacity and are holding about half of what they historically contain this time of year.

 

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On 6/2/2021 at 4:34 AM, FrFan said:

The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America's water to sell in plastic bottles

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Elementary School Lesson On Water Cycle Explains How Water Becomes Property Of Nestlé

 

In a lesson intended to help her class understand the crucial feature of ecology, elementary school teacher Dina Schultz reportedly instructed her students Tuesday on the part of the water cycle where water becomes the property of the Nestlé corporation. “After condensation and precipitation, the water enters Nestlé-owned lakes, streams, and aquifers, where it’s purified to become part of the company’s beloved line of products,” said Schultz, showing her fifth-grade classroom a graph with an arrow pointing directly from the clouds into a Nestlé packaging facility where the water would become Nestea, Nestlé Pure Life, Perrier, and San Pellegrino.

 

 

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Edited December 15, 2022 by China