The country’s water crisis is growing more dire by the day. Rapid climate change in the heat of an unprecedented megadrought has plummeted water levels at the two lakes that fuel the Colorado River. NBC News’ Steve Patterson reports on the far-reaching consequences and what is at stake.
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lol democrates ruined this
Some stress
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The park Trooper has been in the canyon…
WAT too long??
The think is…..all the new water parks.condos in Palm springs ca. And we are running out of water. Stop so much building…there's alot of water use there.and the city's are telling residents not to water……it's all about money..I'm sure not cutting done on water.until they do.
This was predicted 1,000 times in the past 30 years. Capitalism>>>>>Earth
Maybe the media can stop turning a blind eye to the increase of private livestock on public lands over the last 30 years. Maybe then you'll see the devastating damage of rangelands from overgrazing. Not to mention the thousands of wild horses and burros that have been viciously rounded up by helicopters to clear the way for even more private livestock, which sends most to other countries for slaughter.
Then there's the tie in to our government being in bed with special interest groups like Big Cattle and Sheep (BLM) and Big Ag (USFS). Interesting how there BLM, Big Cattle, the ASPCA, the HSUS, and fake wild horse advocate group Return To Freedom pushed the wild horse extinction plan known as The Path Forward through Congress. Immediately after, Trump signed a huge beef export deal with the EU. Then there's SOTI Deb Haaland , who fought to protect wild horses as a Congresswoman, but directly after her appointment she met with Rep. Chris Stewart and decided to follow Trump's mismanagement/eradication plan for the horses. She won't even listen to wild horse advocates. She just poses for PR photos. Not to mention her own personal tie to Big Cattle.
How about the media finally investigate THAT corruption when discussing what's going on out West? Look into who calls the wild horses and burros "feral", and dig deeper into the "science" that claims wild horses and burros are overpopulated. Here's a hint…they aren't. The BLM steals the land from the horses, gives the land to their buddies in Big Cattle/Sheep, and then pushes the same number of horses onto smaller sections of land. It only appears they're overpopulated.
You could also check into how all of this costs American taxpayers HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of dollars. Money that could be used to help injured and/or homeless veterans, schools, cities with toxic water issues…
Just a thought.
Holy crap a drought in the desert….. ya don’t say 🥸
Obviously should have built more dams when water was plentiful. Thank the environmentalists for all water shortages, we could have many more lakes.
As long as you continue to give water to Mexico the lower it will go. They always have their hands out gimme gimme but give nothing in return except problems.
Too bad this crisis became a topic of politicians.
well im not getting children
Sad part is… The water will not refill in ours or even our great grand kids time… This is something that will take centuries. Because, as always, Earth's processes are slow. Humans are the only species on this planet that work against the planet, not with.
Desalination build the infrastructure now!
This was predicted 40 years ago. Now it is too late. We reap what we sow. Misery and suffering is what is being sowed now for humanity's future.
You feel the devine????? Why ain't the devine helping out. Must be praying to the wrong one, or its child talk.
Let me remind everyone that these states politicians urged the scientists making the water models to add so-called “magic” water so they could keep growth projections.
More and more houses being built in California. What did people think was going to happen?
All these breaking news climate emergencies lately are funny. Like the guy said… its been 20 years lol. This has been happening for a long time and today its all an emergency. Nice news LOL. Good job.
The so-called Mega drought emergency has been aided and abetted by ridiculous drawdowns. It's all part of the plan. Most are too stupid and the rest are too naive to understand.
I think that in the next 10-20 years we will see a massive migration of humans going where water is more plentiful.
Before Lake Powell and Lake Mead were created the water was much, much warmer. It's weird that they are saying water increasing in temperature is a problem.
"Why spend billions trying to find a new planet to live on. Rather than spending billions to fix the problems here on earth"
I will let that sink in for a sec!!
Guess what it's what the earth does it always changes has been far before we got here just saying
Nothing will be done until this affects someone's wallet. Someone in power with money.
Goodbye world
(Great Babylon) America will burn forever!!!!
Nuclear annihilation better come soon or otherwise we’re all in for a long and miserable existence.
This wouldn’t happened if the land wasn’t stolen from the indigenous natives, they loved their land and respected it. #bloodland
It's not a mega drought, stop saying that, it's aridification. A drought is temporary, this is a gradual shift to a permanent change in the biome.
we knew this was coming a long time ago and we did nothing about it
Why on earth aren’t we aggressively cloud seeding?
Greedy people taking too much water. No reason at all to be farming in the desert, or building houses in the wilderness.
Good content but the reporter is ignorant. Powell and Mead DO NOT FUEL the colorado river. They are simply damned sections of the river.
Archeologists and geologists know and have told us that the earth is changing constantly and sometimes dramatically. The fact that this is known but ignored and assuming things won't change that is the true "human caused climate change disaster"!
I thought we can seed clouds and make it rain? Climate change could be taken seriously if politicians didn't use it as a way to get elected through fear mongering
Democrat liberals can’t provide enough clean drinking water to their own voters—but they want to tax every American for them to change the entire globe’s climate. Sorry but I don’t trust incompetent liberals to predict the weather tomorrow—much less change the entire world’s climate 🤣
The solution: Build nuclear power stations, at least 10, designed specifically for water purification of sea water and transport back into the Grand Canyon. This needs to be done 20 years ago. START NOW!
We are marching toward the tipping point of Global Warming.
There's been a mass exodus in California! Many Californians have moved to other states that are close to California! Yet the other states have to lower their water usage and California doesn't have to change anything! Seriously a 0% reduction this year in their water usage. But they have less people there! Meanwhile places like Arizona Nevada have accepted tens of thousands of Californians and are not getting compensated for the differences in water. Talk about corruption at its finest! Keep trying to blame the drought for the water going down so quickly. Obviously no one understands evaporation rate surface area and water temperature. Otherwise you'd realize that the evaporation should actually be slowing especially when we've had rains up and down the Colorado River for the last 3 weeks. It doesn't take a mathematician to be able to do some simple math and figure out numbers aren't coming anywhere close to adding up correctly. NBC should probably spend more time on why 100 Biden gets to go on Air Force One on a presidential vacation with his dad after we have him on video breaking multiple crimes including possession of a firearm while intoxicated on illegal stuff since and in the presence and possession of prostitutes. What about the high crime rates and democrat-ran cities right now! What about all the actual innocent people who are becoming victims of violent crimes and yet this is all consequence of the whole defund the police movement! NBC why don't you get some morals and quit trying to spread all the stories that fit the narrative that you want people to believe. People should start doing their own research and actually learn what history is. It does repeat itself and it's a lot easier to find out the future when you know what happened in the past. NBC's a joke and has been for the last 6 years now
“Global Warming is a Hoax.” — President Trump.
Why don't they report on why it is low too? There must be nothing that anyone can do about it, or there is no problem at all.
Wait there is a context box under the video….ok I'm even more scared now.
What they need to do is use that machine for the weather and make it rain, rain and even more rain!!