Peak Water: Until Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head

I am not really sure what your point is. The bottom line is, there is not enough water in the Colorado river basin, end of story...

From your own link:

"Water managers are trying to address growing challenges associated with over-allocation, rapidly increasing urban populations, development of unused water rights, and expected climate change. The water levels of the river’s two largest reservoirs—Lake Mead and Lake Powell, stored by Hoover and Glen Canyon Dams—have dropped significantly in recent years, threatening supplies for major cities. In addition, the trapping of silt behind dams also limits the quality and extent of river habitats."

 

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Again all you are doing here is displaying more of your own ignorance. Those outflows are not rivers (just as we have clearly told you) - they are the water being diverted (translated: removed) from the river for various human uses.

 

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They are not lost from their original usage. It's recyclable.

If you're not going to respond to my post, you can't pretend like you have a valid point to make, because you don't.

 

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So you're saying coal can be recycled and used again?

 

Not all of those are man made diversions, I'm done discussing this with you if you are not going to look at what I posted and educate yourself, there is a legend underneath the map, take a look at it!

 

Nope, you are still the only one being dense here. Your sentence above is *exactly* the point I've been trying to get across to YOU! I've already shown you - and your own reference map confirms it - that practically every drop of water in the river is already allotted and allocated for use. And that leaves nothing left over for use in Kansas or anywhere else. You certainly aren't going to be able to wiggle out of this by claiming you never said otherwise. Here's a partial DIRECT quote from one of your posts: "I'm apparently not the one that needs educated, we were talking about diverting water to Kansas, there is plenty of river water before Glen Canyon Dam to divert to Kansas..."

By now it's beginning to seem that you do NOT understand the simple terms "allotted" and "allocated." The first means a specific division (amount) and the second means that the water has already been contractually PROMISED for specific use. So it doesn't matter if you see "plenty of river water before Glen Canyon Dam" or above it, that water isn't available to be sent to Kansas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I've looked at *everything* you've posted and the majority of it is muddled and confused nonsense. You are the one that cannot read and apply the legend on that map correctly NOR understand simple things that practically everyone else does.

Actually, you've shown your true colors in this thread (and other threads as well, but just more obvious here). You are clearly a school drop-out OR someone that is still too young to have made it all the way through high school. I suspect - and HOPE - it's the latter. Because that would mean you still have the time and resources at hand to overcome your glaring ignorance and become educated.

 

Like I said, I'm done with you!

 

Yep! Felt the heat of truth, didn't you? Figured (and expected) as much.

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Thanks, Trippy - that's exactly what I've been trying to get across.

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I honestly believe his problem is that he's not far enough along in school yet to understand the meaning and importance of allotments & allocations and also that they are legally binding. He's shown his rather childishness (and I do not mean that as a slur! Just an honest observation) in several other threads. I sincerely hope he continues with his education because he does appear quite intelligent, just not well-informed due to his young age. Time and effort will easily correct that minor problem.

 

Young age? You must be pretty old!

 

Compared to you, a lot of the people here are.

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And thanks once again for confirming my estimation of your age - you just continue to display it for everyone to see.

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Great! It's nice to know that important job is in capable hands.

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Is there much political infighting and pressure put on you by ones wanting the newly-surplus water? I could imagine a long waiting list.

 

OK, so if it was in Kansas and it is now in the Pacific Ocean, than it is lost for the good ol' folks of Kansas...

You would have a valid point if you could show that the aquifer's amount of water showing up in at least the West Coast. Because if it is just extra raining in the Pacific, then it is lost forever for practical usage...

 

No, I am saying it is still in the Earth's atmosphere or on the ground, part of us...

 

OK, let's forget about the USA for a moment, and let's take a look at the situation with the Aral Sea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea

As you can see on the Wiki page, due to over irrigation and over usage, the sea (a whole sea!!) pretty much disappeared!!!

"Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world with an area of 68,000 square kilometres (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects. By 2007, it had declined to 10% of its original size, splitting into four lakes –

By 2009, the southeastern lake had disappeared and the southwestern lake retreated to a thin strip at the extreme west of the former southern sea.

The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called "one of the planet's worst environmental disasters". The region's once prosperous fishing industry has been essentially destroyed, bringing unemployment and economic hardship. The Aral Sea region is also heavily polluted, with consequent serious public health problems. The retreat of the sea has reportedly also caused local climate change, with summers becoming hotter and drier, and winters colder and longer."

Now I want you guys to argue that the missing water is somewhere in the great Russian plains showing up as extra....

 

I googled "disappearing fresh water", here is a nice NG article:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...rld-water-day-2010-pictures-melting-glaciers/

Draught in Venezuale, the snow of Kilimandjaro, melting Swiss glaciers, you name it....

Let's throw in pretty pictures and a video of the endangered Lake Baikal, the world's biggest fresh water lake:

http://dennylyon.hubpages.com/hub/Our-Planets-Disappearing-Drinking-Water

Actually, it looks like warmer temperatures are more dangerous than human usage:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2007-06-13-lake-superior_N.htm