Upd 8/16: Based on 2023 Lake Mead Proj. - Arizona, Nevada and Mexico must draw less of Mead's water

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and that doesn't need mowing, edging, trimming or anything. that looks nice. i mean my real grass looks like that (for the type of grass i have), but i put a lot work into it.
 
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Do you have this sort of bravado in real life? Like, do you go to work and say the most ignorant shyt you can think of with your full chest? How do people react?


* First off, population growth slowed dramatically during the One Child Policy, so I'm perplexed by your suggestion it wasn't a success (how much the one child policy created that population curve and how much would have come anyway from prosperity is debated, but either way it was a success so your dig makes no sense).

* Second, there was MASSIVE economic growth while the one child policy was in place, which kills your argument that population growth is necessary for economic prosperity.

* Finally, until recently there was ZERO attempt to use socialist policy to limit resource use in China during that growth period, because the entire drive of Chinese policy was "State Capitalism" - the attempt to use the global capitalist economy to serve the state.


You couldn't have picked a more ignorant response. It's mind-blowing how regularly you do this. Please, JUST READ ONE fukkING CHAPTER OF A BOOK! I linked you 3 chapters, read one of them! When was the last time you read any chapter of any informative nonfiction book? Seriously, I want to know. The consistency with which you show ignorance on every topic astounds me.
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Update as of 7/26/2022:

YearJanJulDecNet +/-
20201094.681084.631083.72-10.96ft
20211085.951067.651066.39-19.56ft
20221067.09Current is 1,040.81-26.28ft

Also more bodies discovered.


 

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More human remains found in receding Lake Mead — the fourth such discovery since May
by Dennis Romero | NBC NEWS

Lake Mead has produced four separate discoveries of potentially decades-old remains since May as the waterline continues to recede amid drought.

Lake Mead, a federal park as well as the country's largest reservoir, has unveiled yet more secrets as human remains were discovered at Swim Beach on Saturday, officials said.


The find was reported in the late morning at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, the National Park Service said in a statement. Park rangers cordoned off the area while Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department divers helped with recovery, it said.


It was the fourth time since May possibly decades-old remains have been reported at the lake located in Arizona and Nevada 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas. The discoveries include the following:


May 1: Remains were found in a barrel. A victim had suffered a gunshot wound and his or her demise might be dated to the 1970s or early '80s based on clothing, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said.


May 7: Remains were found in another barrel discovered along a shoreline, officials said.


July 25: Remains were reported at Swim Beach.


The Clark County Medical Examiner is responsible for determining identities, where possible, and cause of death.


A July 6 discovery of remains near the reservoir's Bolder Islands turned out to be the body of a woman who had gone missing after she fell off a jet ski June 30, authorities said.


Authorities and experts say the four discoveries of possibly much older remains could be the result of the lake's receding waterline, which has dropped its telltale white "bathtub ring," made of drying minerals, more than 170 feet since 1983. The reservoir is at about one-quarter of its capacity.


In May, the Southern Nevada Water Authority announced that one of its water supply intakes was exposed to the lake's descending surface and could no longer be used to draw liquid. The authority said it had long planned for the event, and had a deeper intake ready to take over.


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Nearly continuous drought in major regions of the West and Southwest has plagued the Colorado River since at least the dawn of the millennium. Other symptoms have included the mighty Colorado's longtime failure to reach the Gulf of California until last year, when a binational agreement put water back in Mexico's delta.


The growing Southwest's dependence on the Colorado River — which feeds taps and helps grow food for an estimated 33 million people — has also played a role in the lake's shrinking presence. Last year the federal government announced mandatory water cuts for the seven states that use the Colorado.


In June, Lake Mead's surface elevation was measured at 1,044.03 feet, its lowest since the lake was filled in the 1930s. In July, that number was bested by a new low: 1040.92 feet.


Some observers have speculated that the lake could reveal some long-held secrets buried by mobsters who killed for power and money in Las Vegas in the decades following World War II.


Historian and Mob Museum Vice President Geoff Schumacher told NBC News affiliate KNSV of Las Vegas that it was unlikely the mob would dump bodies so close to town because it was averse the kind of publicity and law enforcement attention that might have created.


"The mob doesn’t want murder victims to be found in the city because creates bad publicity in a tourist town," he told the station in July.


However, Schumacher said in May a body in barrel is a different story.


"A barrel has a signature of a mob hit," he said. "Stuffing a body in a barrel. Sometimes they would dump it in the water."


Lake Mead was created by Hoover Dam, completed in 1935 and officially opened the next year. It held up the Colorado River's flow through Black Canyon and pushed water into four basins that can help it hold two years' worth of the river's flow.
 

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TL;DR: Based on Lake Mead's levels, and projected capacity for next year; Arizona, Nevada and Parts of Mexico have to restrict water usage based on a Grandfather clause.



Arizona and Nevada face another round of water cuts as drought hammers Colorado River water levels​


By Lucas Thompson

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Arizona and Nevada will be hit with another round of cuts to their water supply, as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said Tuesday that the ongoing drought continues to threaten water levels of the Colorado River and, by extension, impact communities across the West.

The announcement comes as western portions of the U.S. have already had to take a series of rare and even unprecedented steps to ration water to large parts of the country. Water levels in Nevada’s Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, hit historic lows in June.

Tuesday’s announcement included designating Lake Mead to operate in a Tier-2a shortage, which increases water restrictions on Arizona, Nevada and parts of Mexico. It is the first time the lake has been pushed to that designation.

The new regulations are based on federal government projections of reservoir water levels over the next 24 months and will take effect in January 2023.

“Every sector in every state has a responsibility to ensure that water is used with maximum efficiency,” Tanya Trujillo, assistant secretary for water and science at the Department of Interior, said in a statement. “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,” she added.

Water rights work based on negotiated agreements on how much water a particular state or country can draw from a body such as Lake Mead. The Colorado River provides water to seven states and Mexico, as stipulated in a 2019 agreement that outlines the river’s water administration amid the ongoing historic drought exacerbated by the effects of climate change.

Based on that agreement, Arizona and Nevada face the steepest cuts. In Tier-2a, Arizona will forfeit an additional 80,000 acre feet of water from Lake Mead, taking water away from cities and tribes, in addition to the state’s agriculture sector which was already hit by a previous round of cuts.

The new restrictions come as the seven states that rely on the Colorado River system missed a deadline mandated by the Bureau of Reclamation to come up with a plan to conserve at least 15% more water on top of preexisting restrictions.

The Bureau of Reclamation announced a number of ways they hope to help “meet this increased conservation need” through administrative actions, investments and support. The bureau did not specifically say what those actions and investments are or how they will be implemented.

Water levels of Lake Mead are expected to continue to drop, and restrictions are expected to continue to mount.

The restrictions, on top of the additional aspirations by the bureau, have led to some tension between the parties involved, most notably from Arizona, which continues to bear the brunt of the water cuts.

“Where we’re doing the lion’s share, California is doing zip, and Mexico is doing some of it, but not very much,” said Ted Cooke, general manager of the Central Arizona Project, which delivers water to more than 80% of the state’s population. “Doing more for us is an extremely heavy lift and we can’t do it without other folks doing the equivalent.”
 

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The money is nice, but its just a small drop in the bucket in comparison. Its something that's not Climate Change, but Climate Change-related. In order for Powell and Mead to come back to life, you would need years and years of Above Average snowfall during the Winter in Colorado Mountains. Most of the water comes from that when the snow thaws.
 
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