Running Dry

OVER POPULATION

Dont worry SW, there will always be water available. It will just get more expensive as the supply goes up. Water is just another commodity that those in power manipulate to suit their greed. For example southern nevada/, Las Vegas has been stealing what they can't buy for years and will continue to do so. If it means a pipeline from the Great Lakes, so be it. The laws WILL change and the money will flow, er I mean the water will flow.

dang!!..that sux..i lice here in las vegas and have been to that lake hundreds of times..they have said nothing on the news or the papers about this..I pray they can do something to help out this situation.

comment::obviously it is very hazardious.the environmints should sit together and try to take the immediate remidial measures by advising the govt.

morons, North Africa and the Middle East have water shortages because 40 percent of the population is illiterate, and people are being slaughtered by the millions by islamic militants...This is not an environmental issue, its an economic one....Water can be be desalinated, Its just expensive, but its a little tough to accumulate wealth during Islamic Jihad....All your looking as is a higher water bill...Newsweek is retarded...

Every year is different and weather goes through cycles. Average temps are just that, the average of every year since they began keeping track. That doesn't mean that one or a few years above or below the average are a sign of catastrophic things to come. We only have about 125 years of consistent records. We have no idea if there are cycles that come around every 500 or 1000 years. Everyone thinks they know all. Pathetic.

The Colorado River has been over-allocated since the inception of the major U.S. dams. Basing allocations on a period of plenty in an area of overall aridity was a bad idea. Now everyone wants their full piece, and there's less to go around than we predicted.

I recently watched a program talking about the water shortage in Arazona, their problem was fixed used a series of filters and cemicals to make sewer water drinkable. Now if Arazona could filter sewer water and make it drinkable couldn't they also make the oceans and any body of water drinkable as well?

IF Nevada's senator John Engin hadn't help pass a bill to give the California farmer 30' of our water out of Lake Mead every year for the last 4 years now the lake would be fine.Mark Kapp

morons, North Africa and the Middle East have water shortages because 40 percent of the population is illiterate, and people are being slaughtered by the millions by islamic militants...This is not an environmental issue, its an economic one....Water can be be desalinated, Its just expensive, but its a little tough to accumulate wealth during Islamic Jihad....All your looking as is a higher water bill...Newsweek is retarded...

Stop wasting water to have green lawns in the southwest!!! Golf courses and fountains too! I will be damned to let people who waste water to take it from the great lakes.

I'm not impressed nor suprised with the Peace Warrior's whinney comments. Coming from a true conservative he can't help but rant and rave about who? Al Gore. This isn't about Al Gore or any other person who cares about our planet. Not our liberal planet but our collective planet. Folks like the Peace Warrior? Isn't that an oxymoron? Love to repeat what they hear on Fox "News" or on radio on programs like, who else? Mr. Oxycontin himself Rush Limbaugh who somehow find their own "scientists" from Oral Roberts University who will refute anything or anyone that doesn't agree with their witchcraft science. It's like the fool who is standing in the middle of the desert without a compass and a canteen full of water. Too stupid to understand that once the canteen is empty you are now in a real world of hurt. But don't tell our friend this because he has snow to shovel for now. All hogwash? So was the big flood, right?

i 'm relly sure das ist not a big dill just need ,we ned relly god investors and start to do somting,and now befor the lake mead can be dry out,we ned to help the natur and the people ,and not just talk.sure it is lote of work and take time but it can be resolvt.wen i could have the posibiliti would fix the problem befor that can hapen.anyting is posibel to do ,to help this people and the natur.

2021? A very long time for something good too happen. Like Rain. The S/W United States has always been prone too long protracted periods of adverse weather conditions. Why not just say that, instead of this type of
'fear mongering'. The kind that we have no control over. The reason is obvious- you (we) get to make ourselves feel morally superior if there is allways a crisis.
Then again, it may not rain enough to make a differance for Lake Mead. But take a look around the planetary bodies of water
that went dry a very long time before George Bush. But if the region does benefit from protracted rain and mountain snowfall, then we'll all remember the failed 'planet cooling' and the 'over population' criseses of the last two
decades. Cheer up everybody!

I recently watched a program talking about the water shortage in Arazona, their problem was fixed used a series of filters and cemicals to make local sewer water drinkable. Now if Arazona could filter sewer water and make it drinkable couldn't they also make the oceans and any body of water drinkable as well?

Guess no one gets the drift, the problem is man made. man has done the limit and man is not doing nary a thing about it. so be it man will suffer the consequence of man doing it. TRUTH is hard to admit.

We are all wasteful. Population control is just an excuse to be hateful. California and all the SW should not be pulling fresh water to flush toilets, wash cars, sidewalks and water lawns for heaven's sake! Duh! do the math! Gray water usage should be a must and there should be NO green lawns in the desert. California should be using ocean water. Duh! do the math!