Running Dry

well, lets just send a big o ass ship up to the artic and fill it up with ice and send it to cali. and bottle it up for them. i'm sure theres enough ice up there to last for a long time and maybe by that time, our resevoirs and ground water will be saturated then.

Who wants water from the Great Lakes... that is some pretty contaminated water with all the factories that line it dumping their waste into it. The water from the Colorado River is already stretched thin. The population boom is only going to make it worse. Hmmmm maybe we should finally do something about all the illegal immigration. But hey, natural resources will last forever no matter how fast our country grows, right?

Perhaps when the lake dries, we will be able to see all of the huge fish there are so many legands of!!

Blaming this on those with fat wallets and fancy cars is like looking at the southwest with blinders on. This problem is brought on by everyone in the region. From the wealthy to the poor. There are too many people now and we refuse to wake up to the fact that we need to practice not only stricter conversation efforts, but we need to reign in rampant population growth. I know it's hard to convince people that they need to stop having more than a couple of children, but it's a fact. We need to face it just as we must face climate change. The Earth is a finite system and we are reaching the turning point of sustainability. WAKE UP TO THIS FACT! If we don't control our population growth we will continue on a downward spiral regardless of any other contributing factors. If we could agree to have only two children per family we could at least slow down the growth curve. This would help the environment in innumerable ways. Each new mouth creates a further burden on our dwindling resources, but everyone seems afraid to mention this aspect of the problem. WAKE UP!!!

WHO EVER WROTE THE COMMENT ABOUT ILLIGALS IS A DOUMBASS, BECAUSE JUST INCASE YOU DINDT KNOW ALL YOU FAMILY AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE ILLIGALLY HERE TOO. THIS LAND BELONGED TO THE INDIANS. SO BEFORE YOU GO AND MAKE STUPID COMENTS YOU SHOULD GET A TOUCH UP ON YOUR HISTORY AND LEARN SOMETHING YOU RACIST ***. AND PS. THE WATER BELONGS TO EVERYONE ***!!!!!

Perhaps when the lake dries, we can see all the huge fish that there are so many legands of.

Here's a start... No WINERY's or irrigated GOLF COURSES in the Southwest?
C'mon people wake up!! Mother nature will prevail even if she has to kill man off to do it. 40 years ago it was the earth is cooling to fast, and now gore is making his retirement off of his "the sky is falling" antics. Throughout the geological time lines the earth has changed her climate on a semi-regular basis. Now add man and his lead foot fossil fuel burning machines and yes the changes are accellerated.
Bottom line is: You moved to a dessert... and now we are gonna complain because there is no water?
Good luck humans!

Hmm, "pseudo-science"? "Theory"? Seems like a lot of armchair scientists out there. (And sadly still many that really don't get the context of the word "theory" in science.) Yes, climate change is a natural phenomenon. It's always happening. The dilema we have to face is how we as humans, and the bits of life on the planet most actively changing the planet, are acting as the catalyst that increases the speed of climate change faster than life can cope. There are dozens of different indications in every natural system around the planet. If you don't believe it, get off your keisters, dust off an old science text book that gives you an inkling on the scientific method, and do the experiments yourself.

Maybe those who comment and actually knew the truth behind the 'water rights' of the named supply... might actually know and understand something other than gross speculation. (cgrpal, this means you)

I am a resident here in Las Vegas and know of the hype and, not only the 'mis-' but also the 'dis-' information about this subject. Gross misuse and mismanagement of the stated resource is rather prevalent.

California as a whole, obviously, needs to use less... nor do we need to route as much to Mexico as we are currently. Im not saying that Las Vegas and everyone upstream doesnt have their hands in this... as we most certianly do... but given the facts, we are more disaplined in water conservation than the rest by ten fold. Yet, Las Vegas will suffer the most.

Then again... we chose to live here, knowing... what the region will have to Inevitably face.

Global Warming ?? Please. Educate yourselves before you make statements of such. The grandure and dilution of the "Gore" complex is quite laughable. Lemmings will be lemmings. Historically, this planet is at the high time of its cycle. It will then be on its way to its low. I guess it sucks to be a human, in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Lastly. Please be a part of evolution... and not that of being a victim in your own environment.

theres no way we can have a refiltration system like a fish tank?? obvisously it would have to huge, but just use the same water........

The snowpack this year should be pretty darn good!

We need to pump water from the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to reservoirs in the southwest. There is always an abundance of water in these rivers and they flood almost every year. So why not pump them when they threaten to go over their banks. We can build an oil pipeline through Alaska, then why not a water line to the southwest. Which is more important to our survival; water or oil?

population growth anybody?

The U.S. government is slowly, but secretly draining the lake in case of a terroristic attack -- catastrophic dam failure, which could severely devastate major populations downstream. Thank you.

dang!!..this sux!!..i have lived in las vegas since 1972 and have been to lake mead hundreds of times..sure would hate to see it go...real bummer!.

Maybe those who comment and actually knew the truth behind the 'water rights' of the named supply... might actually know and understand something other than gross speculation.

I am a resident here in Las Vegas and know of the hype and, not only the 'mis-' but also the 'dis-' information about this subject. Gross misuse and mismanagement of the stated resource is rather prevalent.

California as a whole, obviously, needs to use less... nor do we need to route as much to Mexico as we are currently. Im not saying that Las Vegas and everyone upstream doesnt have their hands in this... as we most certianly do... but given the facts, we are more disaplined in water conservation than the rest by ten fold. Yet, Las Vegas will suffer the most.

Then again... we chose to live here, knowing... what the region will have to Inevitably face.

Global Warming ?? Please. Educate yourselves before you make statements of such. The grandure and dilution of the "Gore" complex is quite laughable. Lemmings will be lemmings. Historically, this planet is at the high time of its cycle. It will then be on its way to its low. I guess it sucks to be a human, in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Lastly. Please be a part of evolution... and not that of being a victim in your own environment.

This sounds like some enviromentalist plot or sceem more global warming this is bullshit how can they even prove what it is from all sceintist use are theorys on what they THINK is wrong for all we know this is just a natural cycle that the earth has gone threw i don,t have a fancy car or a big house and i think this whole global warming thing is just a hoaks