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It's actually a slide show of different landmarks that show contrasting water levels. It might be the browser you are viewing from.I went to the site but don't see the article.
Yeah, I tried it again. The title for the California Drought popped up initially, then went to another page. So I looked it up on another site. WOW. That's ridiculously low water levels!It's actually a slide show of different landmarks that show contrasting water levels. It might be the browser you are viewing from.
Fish are MORE important than Humans. . . . . . Duh.The endangered species act (specifically fish flows) are using 10-20 times the water we are now mandated to save.
In California people use 8-10% of the water, farms a little less then 1/2 whats left, endangered species act a little more then 1/2 of whats left. Where is the bang for the buck? Reducing statewide water consumption by 2%? Causing food shortages? Or allowing streams and rivers which would be dry - if the dams didn't exist - go dry over the summer. Why not just let the dams store storm flow, and in good times snow melt. In bad times (like now) let river outflow equal inflow on these dams, and not flush what little water we have down the toilet and into the ocean. Another winter like this one, and there will be less water behind the dams then current summer fishflow requirements, assuming NO water goes to farms or cities.
I follow a lot of the water flows for various lakes on the colorado river and your suggestion about having inflow and outflow near equal is actually pretty much what all of the larger reservoirs do. That is except for in spring runoff (which doesn't exist this year) where inflow is 27K CFS at times. Outflows at that time are usually 9K CFS. For example: http://lakepowell.water-data.com/ it details stuff like this.The endangered species act (specifically fish flows) are using 10-20 times the water we are now mandated to save.
In California people use 8-10% of the water, farms a little less then 1/2 whats left, endangered species act a little more then 1/2 of whats left. Where is the bang for the buck? Reducing statewide water consumption by 2%? Causing food shortages? Or allowing streams and rivers which would be dry - if the dams didn't exist - go dry over the summer. Why not just let the dams store storm flow, and in good times snow melt. In bad times (like now) let river outflow equal inflow on these dams, and not flush what little water we have down the toilet and into the ocean. Another winter like this one, and there will be less water behind the dams then current summer fishflow requirements, assuming NO water goes to farms or cities.