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valkraider :verified: · @valkraider

48 followers · 457 posts · Server mstdn.social

If you live in the southwest USA, get out your rain barrels and check on your catchment basins - you’re about to get a lot of unseasonal rain that if stored well - can help in the drier times. Let’s hope folks got practice in the past winter letting water sit so it can filter down to the aquifers too! Flood those orchards!

#rain #draught #southwest #CA #CO #UT #AZ #NM #NV #LakeMead #LakePowell #Shasta #aquifer #hurricaine #HurricaineHilary

#hurricainehilary #hurricaine #aquifer #shasta #lakepowell #lakemead #nv #nm #az #ut #co #ca #southwest #draught #rain

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Denise Gutzmer · @DeniseGutzmer

394 followers · 942 posts · Server mindly.social

"Federal officials said Tuesday they will ease water cuts for Western states reliant on the Colorado River next year thanks to a slightly improved outlook, but long-term challenges remain."
#ColoradoRiver #water #LakeMead
https://apnews.com/article/colorado-river-drought-federal-water-cuts-64f0ccddd6b8bf4669b79dfaded63ed5

#coloradoriver #water #lakemead

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AI6YR · @ai6yr

4341 followers · 27674 posts · Server m.ai6yr.org

@severetstorm_bot #LakeMead

#lakemead

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Curtis Smith · @curtisysmith

568 followers · 1871 posts · Server denton.social

Open media

#SilentSunday #Photography #LandscapePhotography #LakeMead

January 2010

#silentsunday #photography #landscapephotography #lakemead

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ProtectiveHen · @bok_bok_ba_gok

170 followers · 3254 posts · Server mas.to

This is f'ing unbelievable. Parched #Arizona lets #SaudiArabia grow alfalfa with our precious water, which it ships to Saudi Arabia to feed the King's cows.

Because - doh - "private property." Meanwhile a major reservoir #LakeMead is about to go belly up.
#climateChange #oligarchs #wastefulBillionaires
Gift link:
https://wapo.st/3rvxgWv

#wastefulbillionaires #oligarchs #climatechange #lakemead #saudiarabia #arizona

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Stefan Müller :verified: · @stefanmuelller

1584 followers · 4711 posts · Server climatejustice.social

„Die Kommunisten nehmen uns das Wasser weg.“

Es gab bereits in der Vergangenheit Aufstände bewaffneter Bauern in den USA.

#LasVegas wächst, #LakeMead schrumpft.

„Beim dritten Weltkrieg geht es um Öl, beim vierten um Wasser.“

Alles gepaart mit Dummheit und Desinformation.

Dinge, die man in dieser Doku über #Wasser lernen kann.

Wenn wir Glück haben, fällt der dritte ja aus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqelnE_Uivk

#lasvegas #lakemead #wasser

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Poetry News · @haikubot

783 followers · 8268 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

Bucket
Decline of two decades long
Winter, conservation, trying to right wrong
A meager drop, sadly not much
Hopes dashed, sorrow, such

#lakemead #waterconservation #coloradoriver #watershortage #cinquain #poetry

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/us/how-much-lake-mead-water-rise-climate/index.html

#lakemead #waterconservation #coloradoriver #watershortage #cinquain #poetry

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HAWKS · @hawks

14 followers · 55 posts · Server techhub.social

Open media

#Overlook #LakeMead #HawksTalks #HawksTV #Nevada #BoulderCity

#overlook #lakemead #HawksTalks #HawksTV #nevada #bouldercity

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JamesGlandonJr · @JamesGlandonJr

17 followers · 2185 posts · Server mstdn.social

#ThePriceisRight this morning on #CBS (may be a repeat) #TPIR
#LetsMakeADeal on #CBS (may be a repeat) #LMAD
#Jeopardy (syndicated) #RIPAlexTrebek
#AEWDynamite on #TBS
#ExpeditionUnknown (x2) with #JoshGates on Discovery
#GhostAdventures (#SeasonPremiere) - "Lake of Death (#LakeMead, #Nevada)" on #Discovery

(2 of 2)

#discovery #Nevada #lakemead #seasonpremiere #ghostadventures #joshgates #ExpeditionUnknown #tbs #aewdynamite #RIPAlexTrebek #jeopardy #LMAD #letsmakeadeal #tpir #cbs #thepriceisright

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DoomsdaysCW · @DoomsdaysCW

898 followers · 12406 posts · Server kolektiva.social

The world’s largest #lakes are shrinking dramatically and scientists say they have figured out why

These significant bodies of water include the Colorado River’s #LakeMead, which has receded sharply amid a #megadrought and decades of #overuse.

By Laura Paddison, CNN

Published May 18, 2023 4:29 PM EDT

The shrinking of many lakes has been well documented, but the extent of change – and the reasons behind it – have been less thoroughly examined, said Fangfang Yao, the study’s lead author and a visiting scholar at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.

The researchers used satellite measurements of nearly 2,000 of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs, which together represent 95% of Earth’s total lake water storage.

Examining more than 250,000 satellite images spanning from 1992 to 2020, along with climate models, they were able to reconstruct the history of the lakes going back decades.

The results were “staggering,” the report authors said.

They found that 53% of the lakes and reservoirs had lost significant amounts of water, with a net decline of around 22 billion metric tons a year – an amount the report authors compared to the volume of 17 Lake Meads.

More than half of the net loss of water volume in natural lakes can be attributed to human activities and climate change, the report found.
The report found losses in lake water storage everywhere, including in the humid #tropics and the cold Arctic. This suggests “drying trends worldwide are more extensive than previously thought,” Yao said.

Different lakes were affected by different drivers.

#Unsustainable water consumption is the predominant reason behind the shriveling of the #AralSea in Uzbekistan and California’s #SaltonSea, while changes in rainfall and runoff have driven the decline of the #GreatSaltLake, the report found.

In the #Arctic, lakes have been shrinking due to a combination of changes in temperature, precipitation, evaporation and runoff.

“Many of the human and climate change footprints on lake water losses were previously unknown,” Yao said, “such as the desiccations of #LakeGoodEZareh in Afghanistan and #LakeMarChiquita in Argentina."

#WaterIsLife #WaterWars #Consumption #ClimateCrisis

#lakes #lakemead #megadrought #overuse #tropics #unsustainable #aralsea #saltonsea #greatsaltlake #arctic #lakegoodezareh #lakemarchiquita #waterislife #waterwars #consumption #ClimateCrisis

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AI6YR · @ai6yr

3483 followers · 16621 posts · Server m.ai6yr.org

I'm surprised so few of these have been mob hits, frankly. #LakeMead #skeletons https://www.npr.org/2023/04/27/1172406522/lake-mead-remains-identified-claude-pensingner

#lakemead #skeletons

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KBSez ✅ · @kbsez

1030 followers · 3611 posts · Server postchat.io

YOU — YES, YOU — ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THE CENTURY-OLD MISTAKE THAT’S DRAINING THE COLORADO RIVER

A huge amount of US food is grown in the desert using water from a river that’s drying up.

More than two decades of a severe drought, coupled with a long history of mismanagement, has cut the river’s flow by roughly 20 percent since the 1900s. Colorado’s largest reservoir, Lake Mead, is less than a third full.

#Water #ClimateChange #Colorado #LakeMead #Agriculture

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23648116/colorado-river-lake-mead-agriculture-leafy-greens

#water #ClimateChange #colorado #lakemead #agriculture

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Brendhan · @obryanb

11 followers · 159 posts · Server dice.camp

It was such a beautiful morning, @vaninprogress and I took a ride through Lake Mead National Recreation Area. I decided to bring the Tiger out to play.
#MorningRide #ForTheRide #Tiger900 #LakeMead #Motorcycling

https://youtu.be/5tLEXV2antg

#morningride #fortheride #tiger900 #lakemead #motorcycling

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