Santiago
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3526
Registered: 8-27-2003
Member Is Offline
|
|
Current and future situation with the Colorado River
Interesting article about the Colorado from it's headwaters to the Cortez here.
|
|
|
4Cata
Nomad
Posts: 115
Registered: 10-28-2008
Location: Yosemite area
Member Is Offline
Mood: Siempre alegre!
|
|
Thank you Santiago,, for posting that excellent article. Though I started life in El Centro and frequented the Salton Sea, I left the area while in
grade school. My dad was a cropduster for HL Stoker company after the war. Stopping by the Salton Sea now is so very depressing. People had such
high hopes for it in the early 50s. Now much is just rotting and sinking into the mud. The article filled in a lot of holes in my understanding.
Who's the cute kid?
Agaveros, silk in a bottle, a beautiful bottle!
|
|
|
motoged
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6481
Registered: 7-31-2006
Location: Kamloops, BC
Member Is Offline
Mood: Gettin' Better
|
|
A well-written and informative article....thanks for the link.
Don't believe everything you think....
|
|
|
BajaNomad
|
Thread Moved
5-25-2015 at 10:26 PM |
Whale-ista
Super Nomad
Posts: 2009
Registered: 2-18-2013
Location: San Diego
Member Is Offline
Mood: Sunny with chance of whales
|
|
Thank you for posting- good article, esp this section:
"To prevent California from taking the water instead—by the terms of the compact, California is entitled to use any water that other states
don’t—Phoenix, Tucson, and other Arizona municipalities agreed to take CAP water they didn’t need and sell it to farmers at a deep discount. The
cities were willing to do that, Gammage told me, because “keeping water away from California is one of our fundamental principles.”
Proving once again: water flows uphill, towards money.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
|
|
|
Santiago
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3526
Registered: 8-27-2003
Member Is Offline
|
|
#1 grandson.
|
|
|
Osprey
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3694
Registered: 5-23-2004
Location: Baja Ca. Sur
Member Is Offline
|
|
I'm to the right of Genghis Khan on the "Fix the world weather" issue but it is telling that the groundwater in the Great Basin has subsided 7 fold
over the flow and stock shrinkage.
Isn't that the real Cliff's notes on this one?
|
|
|
motoged
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6481
Registered: 7-31-2006
Location: Kamloops, BC
Member Is Offline
Mood: Gettin' Better
|
|
Jorge,
Lean on your left elbow in the easy chair once in a while.....probably won't throw your back out for too long 
(no harm meant) 
Don't believe everything you think....
|
|
|
Osprey
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3694
Registered: 5-23-2004
Location: Baja Ca. Sur
Member Is Offline
|
|
That would really throw me off kilter. I have two right elbows. Left or right it will make you crazier --- all these people wasting water washing cars
and trucks. Sheesh. What's next, windows and doors?
|
|
|
motoged
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6481
Registered: 7-31-2006
Location: Kamloops, BC
Member Is Offline
Mood: Gettin' Better
|
|
Daily showers?
Don't believe everything you think....
|
|
|
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
