“..the lake can hold a capacity of 19,500 acre feet. Right now, it’s at 50 acre feet.”
This week’s drought map from NOAA now updated:
Low Lake Levels Hamper Firefighters in Arizona
“..the lake can hold a capacity of 19,500 acre feet. Right now, it’s at 50 acre feet.”
This week’s drought map from NOAA now updated:
Is the drought also “hampering” crop and cattle growers?. And before long shower takers and toilet flushers? Another sign of the beginning of the end?
I fear for a real train-wreck across water and power systems this summer in the west.
You’re not alone. My son lives in Crested Butte CO and folks out there are really concerned. I have been to all parts of CO and cannot imagine a temperature of 106 degrees in Grand Junction.
Too often activists or city councils go after stupid things like restaurants automatically serving water without asking, as if the total of unconsumed table water compares to a sunny day’s evaporation of swimming pools or the use of potable water to irrigate landscaping.
I hope reservoir managers come up with more anti-evaporation mechanisms (possibly even swaths of floating solar panels?). Average annual evaporation for Lake Mead (Nevada-Arizona) was 1896mm (a little over six feet).
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20211022
Of course reservoir covers interfere with the operation of dip planes….