Lake Mead may go dry by 2021
Bob Morris @ Feb 12th 2008 17:32 - Category: Water Tags: Lake Mead
Reasons: Increased demand for water and climate change. If it does go dry, then Hoover Dam stops producing power and L.A. and Vegas will have severe water shortages.
“We were stunned at the magnitude of the problem and how fast it was coming at us,” said Barnett in a statement. “Make no mistake, this water problem is not a scientific abstraction, but rather one that will impact each and every one of us that live in the Southwest.
1 Comment »
One Response to “Lake Mead may go dry by 2021”
Leave a Reply
Comments subject to deletion at whim of capricious webmaster. Disagreements are ok. Flames, trolls, and right-wing attacks are not. If your comment doesn't appear immediately, then moderation is on, thus there's no need to re-send it.
(However sometimes the anti-spam programs here go awry. Email us if your comments seem to vanish into the void.)
Ten Bears on 12 Feb 2008 at 10:52 pm #
I’ll bet that 2021 gets revised, this thing is exponential.
I’ve High Desert homies who’ve spent the last several winters at Lake Powell telling me they’ve no reason to go back.