Water.....

**Ørion** · 10-14-2022, 07:13 AM

Originally Posted by skinipenem

Do you have a link to that graphic? Unreadable on my phone even zoomed.

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https://xkcd.com/1732/

**Danno** · 10-14-2022, 09:12 AM

It's absolutely worth reading, even if you have to find a computer to look at it

PB · 10-14-2022, 09:47 AM

It definitely puts the most "recent" changes in horrifying perspective, but I'm also fascinated by the changes in just 22k years - a mere blink of the eye geologically.

**climberevan** · 10-14-2022, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Ørion

https://xkcd.com/1732/

Thanks!

**Bunion 2020** · 10-15-2022, 07:59 AM

Originally Posted by PB

It definitely puts the most "recent" changes in horrifying perspective, but I'm also fascinated by the changes in just 22k years - a mere blink of the eye geologically and at the same time as long the Homo Sapiens or the so called Human race"

FIFY

PB · 10-15-2022, 09:24 AM

Wut??
H. sap has been around much longer than 22 thousand years, so seems like you BIFM (broke it for me).

**Bunion 2020** · 10-15-2022, 10:22 AM

Oh well deal with it.

**Hood26** · 10-17-2022, 07:51 AM

Not a drop of rain in Oregon all October. Willamette River and it’s tributaries are very low and slow.

**refried** · 10-17-2022, 08:21 AM

We've had .2" of rain in over 100 days (less on the south end of the island), the driest stretch since they've been keeping records on this island.

**TBS** · 10-17-2022, 08:31 AM

And here in the eastern Cascade foothills, my friend’s well is going dry…

Whether it’s drought or a new neighbor that has decided he needs to water 3 acres of turf for six hours in the middle of the fucking day, looks like his well may need to go from 400’ to 475’

I told him to go to new neighbor’s place with a bag of fertilizer one night and write out “don’t water your lawn so fucking much” in the turf in front of his porch. Sadly given rain and snow in the near forecast, that may have to wait until next summer…

**detrusor** · 10-17-2022, 08:45 AM

Fertilizer messages on lawns never gets old

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**neufox47** · 10-17-2022, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by refried

We've had .2" of rain in over 100 days (less on the south end of the island), the driest stretch since they've been keeping records on this island.

Whoa that’s crazy. You’re on the big island? I can’t imagine those rainforests with no water. Are there starting to be fires?

**Skistack** · 10-17-2022, 01:29 PM

The Imperial Valley uses more water from the Colorado River than Arizona and Nevada combined.

Enjoy your celery!

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/11262...n-in-a-drought

**jackstraw** · 10-17-2022, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by Skistack

The Imperial Valley uses more water from the Colorado River than Arizona and Nevada combined.

Enjoy your hamburger!

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/11262...n-in-a-drought

Cattle food too.

**dunfree** · 10-17-2022, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by Skistack

The Imperial Valley uses more water from the Colorado River than Arizona and Nevada combined.

Enjoy your celery!

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/11262...n-in-a-drought

salad greens are about the same as cattle in $, broccoli is about a 1/4 of the $

**Todd Zander** · 10-17-2022, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by jackstraw

Cattle food too.

Hey! Some of that is for horses abroad too ya know

**refried** · 10-17-2022, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by neufox47

Whoa that’s crazy. You’re on the big island? I can’t imagine those rainforests with no water. Are there starting to be fires?

I'm on Lopez. There's been fires all Summer, every time the wind is from the west we get smoke, it makes for great sunsets but the cars get covered in ash.

**old goat** · 10-18-2022, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by Skistack

The Imperial Valley uses more water from the Colorado River than Arizona and Nevada combined.

Enjoy your celery!

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/11262...n-in-a-drought

I can eat celery. I can't eat Nevadans or Arizonans. OK, maybe if I got desperate.

**paulster2626** · 01-11-2023, 09:44 AM

So, with all this rain that Cali is getting, and Colorado seems like it's having a good snow year, would this have any affect on Lake Mead, or other water reservoirs on the west coast? Or is this just an annual drop in the bucket that is meaningless?

**I Skied Bandini Mountain** · 01-11-2023, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by paulster2626

So, with all this rain that Cali is getting, and Colorado seems like it's having a good snow year, would this have any affect on Lake Mead, or other water reservoirs on the west coast? Or is this just an annual drop in the bucket that is meaningless?

In regards to Lake Mead

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Huge snowpack in the Sierras is of course beneficial and will help greatly until the next drought in 10-20 years (rinse and repeat).

**Danno** · 01-11-2023, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by paulster2626

So, with all this rain that Cali is getting, and Colorado seems like it's having a good snow year, would this have any affect on Lake Mead, or other water reservoirs on the west coast? Or is this just an annual drop in the bucket that is meaningless?

Only time will tell. But after extended drought, the soil moisture is so bad that even a good snow year might not lead to huge reservoir-changing runoff.

**Bunion 2020** · 01-11-2023, 10:21 AM

PBS was talking about this last night.

Yeah some reservoirs will get filled up but most of the water runs off as stormwater and in Cali that means right to the oceans unless stored as seasonal snow pack. Not much groundwater recharge due to low soil moisture content.

And unfortunately most stormwater runoff is fairly well polluted by the shit it collects from surfaces during runoff.