Filming in Parks BAN? National Recreation Area EXPLAINED! Lake Mead UPDATE January 2023 Water Level

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In this very special first report of 2023, we cover some important topics surrounding the lake and look ahead to what this new year might bring. Included is an overview of the recent "commercial filming" rulings, an explanation of what exactly a National Recreation Area is, and we'll also get an update on the Colorado River Compact Meeting from last report (November 2022 Update: • Lake Mead Drought UPDA... ) At the end we'll go over a special "Year in Review" water level report for Lake Mead and speculate what the Colorado River and it's managers have in store for the basin this year.
I would like to thank everyone for their continued support, ideas, corrections, and comments! Stay tuned as we work on more periodic water level updates and a new year filled with new adventures!
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Sources:
Is filming banned at Lake Mead? Commercial filming fee schedule:
www.8newsnow.com/news/local-n...
SNWA response plan to USBR:
www.8newsnow.com/wp-content/u...
"Future of Lake Mead Marinas to be decided soon"
www.8newsnow.com/news/local-n...
CASETEXT: Price v. Barr
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Boat rally on Strip protests potential Lake Mead launch closures
• Boat rally on Strip pr...
Lake Mead South Cove Closes - Episode 4 - Water Level Crisis
• Lake Mead South Cove C...
Major flooding in California! Atmospheric river storm
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Lake Mead Water Level
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:04 Filming in Parks
1:53 Price v. Barr
3:48 Film Permit Fees
4:19 National Recreation Areas
7:40 Boat Ramp & Marina Closures
11:16 River Compact Meeting
13:26 Atmospheric River
14:09 "Year In Review" Water Level Report
15:26 Future Outlook
Music courtesy of KZfaq Audio Library
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@SpiegNet Жыл бұрын

Regardless of how they manage the reservoir, I think they should be required to clean up the garbage created (old boats, engines, batteries, etc...

@terrylarkin690 Жыл бұрын

This should be open to all. And filming restrictions are BS.

@richarda996 Жыл бұрын

It’s all about the money.

@onefeather2 Жыл бұрын

This should be on all national and local TV news stations; people need the Truth which is almost impossible to hear about anything anymore especially when the government/state talks out two sides of their mouth.

@jonathanhurley4055 Жыл бұрын

keep voting in Democrats. That way you will only hear what they want you to hear. . Not to mention have your cities being ( and already) destroyed. It fascinates me you liberals hang onto being a proponent of liberal policies even if it breaks your weeny off at the root. Just fascinating.

@kevinsnyder8448 Жыл бұрын

Yup and morphing into 3 sides lol

@JR-bj3uf Жыл бұрын

I lived in rural Texas. I stopped to have a chat with one of our local farmers. He was pulling weeds and clearing brush from a ditch in the August heat. It was dry hot work. He said "I know it doesn't look like it but it's going to come a rain and this ditch has to flow water. Just remember that it's going to rain.

@jennydaes4316 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for being a true American and keep filming! It’s the land of the free

@adelesexton5975 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. We hear about agriculture and water thirsty plants but I have never heard about population growth. Population growth is a large part of the lack of water issues. Cities are continually expanding and with each new resident comes with a mandatory water consumption.

@FastEddy301 Жыл бұрын

Mostly because agriculture uses 80% of these waters. For example Arizona is using far less water in 2022 with 7 million people than in 1969 with 1 million people. I fell out of my chair when I learned this. All fact, you can find these facts on line pretty easy.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and the comment! The reason you hear most about agriculture and water thirsty plants is because these 2 forms of water usage are considered "wasted" as for the most part they don't get reclaimed. City/household usage water that goes in the sewer is reclaimed and eventually makes it's way back to the reservoir (Lake Mead) to be re-used again. As an example of this, by 2021 Las Vegas used 27 billion gallons LESS water than it did in 2002, even though it added over 750,000 residents between 2002 and 2021. The agricultural irrigation in the desert has specifically been identified as a sore spot because well over half the amount of the river is used just for this purpose.

@peewee7530 Жыл бұрын

We need to curtail letting so many people in - especially from the borders.

@donofon101 Жыл бұрын

@@peewee7530 that is so off topic.. you have not read the comments above you in this thread.. Your opinions on immigration are shown to be irrelevant to the water levels. Read Mojo's comment IN FULL right above yours. Then go back to Hannity and Carlson.

@norml.hugh-mann Жыл бұрын

@@peewee7530 racism contrary to the facts

@LightoftheMoon Жыл бұрын

Subscribed because you have factual and correct information on the entire boondoggle. Thank you kindly ‼️

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard appreciate the support! 👍

@dawnr9158 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining all this. Very informative! 😀

@garybrunecz7785 Жыл бұрын

You all can kiss your freedoms good by. Things will get much worse. I hope they take all your rights and guns away so we can watch all the spineless cowards fall in line and submit to their new masters.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

You're welcome glad to hear that, I learned a lot of it making the video also 😂 Thanks for watching Dawn!

@KemmerlingKomputers Жыл бұрын

"pay a fee and get permit to film this dirt and these plants" kind of a joke if you ask me, love the vids tho man! keep it up

@KemmerlingKomputers Жыл бұрын

JESUS I ABOUT SHIT WHEN YOU SAID THE FEES INVOLVED LOL

@missingremote4388 Жыл бұрын

They can't bust you unless you stop filming

@garybrunecz7785 Жыл бұрын

Its called easy money. The slaves are good for revenues in oh so many clever ways. Your government masters have spoken. Stay compliant and you might find something worth living for.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 you just described 95% of visitors to Lake Mead... "Wow look at all this dirt and rocks. Is there anything here? Oh look a marina! Some big fish. Ok back to the strip!" They should be paying KZfaqrs for helping to get visitors in there at this point...

@zerofox7347 Жыл бұрын

They don’t really care about you filming the lake. It’s just a way to stop people being able to film the government agencies stomping on your rights, closing boat ramps, destroying house boats that can’t be taken of the lake because they have mismanaged the water! And just basically doing terrible tyrannical shit!

@amyhayutin1738 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting and informative. The permits for filming opens up a whole can of worms! I live on West slope of Colorado. Our NRA’s are important to us for enjoying the rivers. I hope the NPS will manage Mead better or let another more competent organization take over.

@thomasstapleton6845 Жыл бұрын

Well said sister,was there recently and it was scary.those rivers should be left alone

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I hope so also! A State Park would even be nice. The modern day NPS wants to squeeze every penny out of even the most decrepit areas like Lake Mead, managing our lands for profit and exclusivity. Meanwhile the money seems to go into a black hole and the areas continue to decay...

@evelynwinchester4726 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your thorough information. Very much appreciated.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it thanks for stopping by!

@CapeCod69 Жыл бұрын

Another excellent video. Well done and thank you very much for a great update.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting!😎

@MaryM-xz5fs Жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to help you. 11 deadliest words

@johngentry8156 Жыл бұрын

Excellent presentation.!!! Good Info...Thank You for your continuing efforts.!

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Of course thank you for watching and dropping by to leave a comment!

@stevedietrich8936 Жыл бұрын

The Imperial Valley of California uses enough water to cover its 800 square miles with 5 feet of water every year. This is more water than is used by ALL of Arizona and Nevada combined each year. How about start there? You can grow alfalfa most anywhere in the country where there is a water supply. Vegetables can be grown even in the winter in greenhouses, the southern US States, and South America.

@lostboyiii Жыл бұрын

Do you want to eat? Imperial Valley needs the water for farming... I

@adel19997 Жыл бұрын

@roseiannone2174 Жыл бұрын

Excellant video!! I lived in the Imperial Valley from 1960 to 1962. Only two years, but to me, aged 14, it seemed like a thousand. I was born and raised in Rhode Island. A block from Narragansett Bay. I hated living in a desert. But, at 14, I did not understand the true beauty that can be found there. I've learned since of the water problems that seemingly have no solution. Isn't there some way that water depositories can be built at strategic places along the Colorado where water can be stored, perhaps under ground to prevent evaporation and used for irrigation only? There is so much water flowing right now with the storms that is being lost. Cant it be stored somewhere, some how? I say this every year when I watch the news. It's the same weather cycle year after year after.....! For tens of thousands of years!! Somebody should've come up with a solution by now!! The Ancient Sumerians and Roman's had cisterns dug beneath cities that held vast amounts of water. Then it was routed to the areas that needed it. DUH! Too bad my mother is not still around. She was the cheapest woman on earth. She lived in Imperial Valley for 26 years and had the longest garden in her community. Yet, she never used more than a couple of hundred gallons of water a year! She could get plants to grow just by sweating on them!! She would have something figured out if someone had asked. Just saying. RMI

@bigal7561 Жыл бұрын

That was outstanding. Need more. Thank you. Just subbed.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard thanks for the support!

@jhagen4850 Жыл бұрын

This is really informative. I really enjoy your narration style and measured pace! Keep up the good content!

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thank you much appreciated! Glad you enjoyed it 👍

@kidcompany Жыл бұрын

Very informative. Thanks!

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@rexfaucher9773 Жыл бұрын

The tires that you have commented on are placed as fish habitat. It is used all over the country. As can be seen there is no structure for underwater life.This has been used for almost a hundred years. The tires don't rot and if the water level hadn't lowered you would not know they were there. I wonder why the various agencies have not made a start cleaning up these sites. Thanks for the video. Cheers, RF

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment and info! Our viewers have been getting us a lot of new knowledge on boating and fishing, something we haven't ever done before. To me they just looked like trash as there is an old mine up the wash with stacks of them from the mining equipment. Now I realize they were taking them from the mine and reusing them in the water for the fish. As you said, I also wonder why they haven't been cleaned up as they've been above water for a few years now.

@backcountyrpilot Жыл бұрын

Rather than clean the tires up, why not toss them in deeper water?

@sharonchristenson9199 Жыл бұрын

xmas trees make great structure

@rosemariemann1719 Жыл бұрын

@@backcountyrpilot (Maybe the fish live ideally at the level the tyres were placed originally ?) 🇬🇧☺️🦉🇬🇧💕🇺🇸🌈🐟🇬🇧

@samuelkeystone Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the update!

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

You bet thank you for watching! 👍

@metal--babble346 Жыл бұрын

the feds chopped the head off Flaming Gorge. That smaller Wyoming/Utah reservoir has lost 1/3 of it's water, and is continuing to drop daily. Glen Canyon Dam is running out of options, as Lake Powell can no longer function as a water storage reservoir.

@raymondjunk6996 Жыл бұрын

quit wasting water

@jeffhenderson934 Жыл бұрын

I remember as a kid in the late 80’s-early 90’s with the water level at Lake Hartwell (SC-GA state line) down considerably, an interview with an Army Corp of Engineer interview, it would take a minimum of 25 years to get the lake to full pool. I remember thinking, “I’ll be an old man in my 30’s before this lake will be normal again!” We got out of our drought and got more rain in one year than any on record. (Back to full pool in less than 6 months) I’m not taking a cheap shot at the Army Corp of Engineers, but I came away thinking more about Mother Nature. (Don’t mess with her, and for God sake, never underestimate her)

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Well said, definitely agree with that! Nature always finds a way regardless how hard humans try to screw everything up and convince their peers that they know best.

@TheFarmanimalfriend Жыл бұрын

Reservoirs are v shaped. As such, a foot of water from the top will necessarily contain more volume then a foot of water closer to dead pool. 😮

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Good point to keep in mind if it continue to fall further 👍

@bodhimartina6985 Жыл бұрын

Hola from Baja! THANK YOU!!! This came at the perfect time. I was just going to submit my Water Watch article and it rained! LOL. Of course we are thankful for it here, but only received the tail end of the stream and it won't help us much, given 80% of our water comes from the Colorado River. But most people here are not informed and so will see this rain as a reprieve from having to conserve. I needed to address this way of thinking. More by email. I believe it is more about "Too little too late." But we will see if the Lower Basin states can come up with their contribution. Arizona is being hit pretty hard already with this years cut. California has contributed nearly nothing. But it is coming for at least their mega agriculture's businesses.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Hello again Martina, glad to hear it came at a good time! This is what always happens... the cycle will continue into next year, and the next. People are so short minded these days though how could they be worried about a drought when their neighbors house is flooded, or vice versa. I think what's most important is what you're doing, bringing awareness to the issue so we go into the next cycle with more informed people and solutions. I stayed up a few days working on this video and need a break, but I am definitely going to review your email and send you a reply offline there soon. Hope your New Year is off to good start!

@clifffoltz651 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for filling eastern parts of the country in besides the weather channel and media we don't get the whole story. Thanks again !

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

You're welcome, thanks for watching and leaving a comment! I know that is the case throughout the country. We don't hear much of anything weather related back east unless it's doom and gloom like hurricanes and flooding. Meanwhile you folks over there listen to us worry of drought and overuse. No one seems to want to find the actual solutions though, because the climate space and the reporting around it is filled with profiteers!

@mossymountainbikeworks Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the update.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

You bet thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment!

@kenfrazier616 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the update

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Of course, thank you for watching! 👍

@marialamas1577 Жыл бұрын

Great Information!!

@benduckx9367 Жыл бұрын

This was one of the best 'meat n' potatoes' reports on Lake Mead that I have seen anywhere on the internet in a very, very long time. It provides facts and situational analysis, in addition to great viewing of the lake. I look forward to your report on the state's submissions later this month. Let's hope these storms here in California traverse over Nevada, Colorado, and other feeder states, and leave far more snowpack; the lifeblood of a 'fill'. Keep up the good work, and Happy New Year!

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Well thank you for that, appreciate the kind words! 👍 I've been trying to improve the content and editing as the hiking and exploring part I've had down for years already 😂 We've been getting hit with the California "Mega Storms" for sure, especially last few days. I am hoping the flooding doesn't turn catastrophic next door in CA while at the same time hoping we get a ton of moisture that makes it through. Happy New Year as well hope it's off to a good start for you!

@edward9643 Жыл бұрын

Situational analysis? It was a rambling account regarding filming rights

@fredkrabach7496 Жыл бұрын

I'm currently in a town about 40 minutes nw of Phoenix for work. I've been coming here every winter since 2015. The amount of natural grass and corresponding irrigation going in all over here is overwhelming. It's the desert and people are planting and watering grass. Then wondering where the water is going. I can't believe people are that ignorant and closed minded.

@jKLa Жыл бұрын

It's just crazy how totally out of touch so many people have become. It's still shocking to me, just sickining really!

@patrictutaki3786 Жыл бұрын

Very informative well done

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! 👍

@brucedillinger9448 Жыл бұрын

Ginsburg: "The act of filming is not protected under the 1st amendment". What...? Weren't there video cams around in the 1790's?? Learn something new every day. ✌

@aaronVlog8 Жыл бұрын

Great Video, thank you for sharing🙏.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

You're welcome, appreciate the support!

@aaronVlog8 Жыл бұрын

@@mojo.adventures you deserve it bro, keep it up, I'm youtuber my self and still learning.

@metal--babble346 Жыл бұрын

It's raining and snowing and the reservoirs are holding steady. Come July when it's hot and dry, the BoR has plans to stop river flow out of Lake Powell, leaving what's left in Lake Mead as the principal source of water for California and Arizona's ravenous addiction to farming the desert

@anthonymartinez4307 Жыл бұрын

California is not addicted to farming that’s what feeds you now they are not as dry as the Nevada desert maybe Arizona is just like Nevada. Las Vegas addicted to gambling can’t see golf courses and a city that shouldn’t be in the desert is the problem.

@stylespopping Жыл бұрын

@@anthonymartinez4307 uhhhhh look up “almond farms” in California. Biggest waste of water in the entire country. Fuck your Almond milk. Lol

@FastEddy301 Жыл бұрын

They are farming these areas because for 6 months of the year 90% of the nation's agriculture comes from these areas. Having said that the cotton, alfalfa going to the middle east and flood irrigation all have to stop and need to 15 years ago. California also has a massive water shed that they should be using for this area. They should not have to draw from the Colorado. Environmentalists have made and will continue to make that impossible.

@rubroken Жыл бұрын

@@FastEddy301 Well said! Imperial valley feeds the whole country. Yes, they use a lot of water, and alfalfa should be grown and harvested in places with lots of available water.

@seavee2190 Жыл бұрын

@Alfonso Finkelstein Stop eating our fruit and vegetables then please. Thanks

@joblo341 Жыл бұрын

The recent rains are interesting to those of us who are staying dry. I KNOW that they won't have a significant impact on levels in Colorado, but it would be interesting to hear how much rain was recorded in various locations in the Colorado watershed and what effect that had on water levels at the various dams.

@rts3613 Жыл бұрын

There is major snowpack I believe 165% so far and gaining. That has to affect levels come the spring melt.

@joblo341 Жыл бұрын

@@rts3613 Good to hear. I hope it doesn't all evaporate (sublime) away. We get a lot of that in spring. Heavy snow pack, but sunny, relatively warm days with strong wind just "blows" the snow away.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Indeed that was a lot of moisture moving very quickly over the west with more fronts to come! In Las Vegas we recorded 0.62" so far in January. That's is 3x more rain than the last 4 January's so it certainly doesn't hurt. Of course it's the snowpack we need! We enjoy watching weather/rain specific updates from the Dobrinich Channel ( www.youtube.com/@Dobrinich ) Lots of good content there covering the lakes. If you find any other channels covering the situation in the upper basin though like Colorado let us know! Thank you for watching! 👍

@johnlord8337 Жыл бұрын

I haven't seen this much rain in NorCal - looking like what we have in coastal WA/OR (and the Pineapple Express "Hawaii" atmospheric river) in times past always hitting the west coast of Oregon at Tillamook (on the same latitude as inland Portland). Just leave out the water barrels, and do the laundry in the rain ... Just need G*d who created this whole cosmos and functioning parts - to just send all the rain up into the mountains (rivers, creeks, reservoirs) and snow. Eventually, the coast will get the water downstream. No need to waste extensive waters on the coastal plain. Otherwise send the rain into the Central Valley and water all those needed agricultural lands - and save the Colorado River Compact. Colorado River Compact will never (ever again) have any functioning compact as the growing AZ and CA needs (or gluttony) will never compromise to CO and NV needs. No govt mandated solution JAN 23, 2023 is going to come to a settlement and compromise. What needs to happen is CA get off its azz and start spending monies and construction for desalination plants to meet its own water needs - and use the byproduct brine sea salts as a profitable subsidy from the process. In a chart of all the documented sea salts (fertilizers, industrial and technology metals, minerals) - all these are pure salts - which means no mining, blasting, tailings ... while the pure salts can be processed (without slag) for the immense products that are inherent in these salts. CA needs desalination plants along the entire N to S coastline, supplying its own water needs, - and that would solve the entirety of the Colorado River Compact with CA stepping out of the Compact, let alone personal draining of all critical highland waters (Mono Lake etc), and going their own way with self-production of fresh water for irrigation, consumption (cooking, drinking, laundry), washing, ...

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and your thorough comment, I enjoyed reading that and you have a lot of great points! We have been watching the CA storms intently. The "World is Dangerous" channel and "Dobrinich Channel" have been doing a great job covering them. I hope the folks in those areas make it through the fronts without anything catastrophic happening,but I've seen some pretty bad flooding videos already. Hoping it doesn't get worse, while at the same time, hoping our drought issues are solved. It's nervewracking...

@christopherthompson2078 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Chris uk 🇬🇧 our lakes are free but you have to pay for parking .but tiny to yours lol x

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Hello there, thanks for watching all the way from across the pond! We have plenty of that here too... it's "free", you just have to pay for parking, shipping, or taxes 😂 You can get a free drink here in Las Vegas, just pay $25 at the parking garage and put $50 in the machine 👍

@billy33365 Жыл бұрын

Wow great video thumbs up

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visit! 😎

@keaaul808 Жыл бұрын

Awesome informative and educational update, thanks! Keep up your great series of factual transparency! Big Government is notorious for control of the sheeple with heavy fists, bureaucracy, ineptness, fear, and waste of tax dollars. The use of independent contractors is a no brainer first step.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated! Thank you for watching and well said 👍 We are wondering if the poor guy who drove the wheel loader off the ramp has been the govt's "go to" contractor all this time. No wonder the place is the way it is and they want to squeeze more money out of guests...

@HappyHands. Жыл бұрын

so strange all the flooding in california.. and at the same time Mead drying up

@clifffoltz651 Жыл бұрын

We could only hope that the weather we have had recently could possibly replace what was once there and maybe to the level that where it once was at !

@michaelking550 Жыл бұрын

I hope they appeal this BS law!!!

@S.E.C-R Жыл бұрын

This was very informative, much more going on than I thought. I’m still confused about filming though. Are KZfaqrs, such as yourself still allowed to film and upload your Lake Mead videos? There are a few channels I follow that are mostly Lake Mead videos. Last I saw one of them they said they are no longer allowed to film, without the permits.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Well that depends on whether someone at the NPS considers them as committing the act of "commercial filming" or not. KZfaq runs ads on popular videos default, so I suppose the NPS would need to take KZfaq to court then. It can only really be answered by the individual contacting the NPS on a case to case basis, which is also sort of what I'm trying to convey in the video. I can't provide any further advice legal or otherwise because I don't know and won't claim to. I just like hiking the lake 😂

@rosemariemann1719 Жыл бұрын

Dear S.E.C-R, 08 Jan, 2023 : I've been watching " Vegas DTech" , where Joey had been making " No Impact" video reports, just walking along, recording voice and video. He was upset to be informed that the Park Service now ban filming , unless you have a permit, which I just read, is $200 for an application ( not refundable ! ), $400 a day for a permit....😢 One can understand that rule for film production companies, but for a single person just walking around, hardly leaving a footprint, sharing the experience, plus status of the lake ? Surely doing no harm? ( Joey was at Lake Mead, noting the worrying effects of the drought ). Joey's activity was apparently deemed to be " commercial", by being posted on KZfaq, which generates income from adverts. Imho, this is " Bureaucracy gone mad " .😠. The Parks Service should appreciate free advertising ...☺️. Or maybe they want to send someone to the lake to make reports, and get the revenue from You Tube, themselves...?🤔. Or maybe to do that is beneath their dignity ?l.o.l.😁. Well, many of us really like Joey's natural style, rather than highly organized reports, say by a t.v. company... Please just waive the permit fee for Joey ? What YOU get is free advertising, then you get more tourists (generated by the extra online interest). Please let Joey and Maria earn a bit of income : a fair deal ? Yes? The Park Service could limit the number of private reporters, as they see fit ? Why not give it a try ?☺️ Best Wishes from England. 🇬🇧💕🇺🇸🌈☺️🌿🦉🌫️☺️🇬🇧

@edwardtobiasen3386 Жыл бұрын

There has been a problem for year's ever since the Colorado River stopped flowing into the Gulf of California. Next up how can a foreign country legally own water rights in the United States. Up next how can the United States think using any water in a different water shed not the least over the continental devide is natural. California's farmlands is a manufacturers nightmare 1 it's a dessert 2 you don't have to go to a different water shed to get the water 3 those water rights are not realistic because all that water really is Colorado's California has it's own water shed and has know rights or should have no rights to say anything about Colorado river water

@Morpheus187 Жыл бұрын

That water allotment was given to the Saudi Arabian company by a republican governor who receive millions of dollars in return and retired happy.

@susanmoriarty9900 Жыл бұрын

Was that the deal so Saudi Arabia can crow something that requires a tremendous amount of water to grow. I forgot the (Alfalfa)?

@charlenestevens1860 Жыл бұрын

Definitely flunked grammar class

@AmeriMutt76 Жыл бұрын

Western slope Coloradoan here, in a place that still can't legally collect our rain water, even after the recent changes to those laws. You are spot on. Alfalfa grown around here is sold to high end customers around the world, because of it's specific mineral content. I think that's the other piece of the "why in a desert" part of the Fondomonte story, besides the hugely unfair water deal they were given by a corrupt politician. I wonder what he got in return?

@roberthumphrey1304 Жыл бұрын

One solution to the reservoir levels is to limit the outflows to no more than 110% of the previous year's inflow and no more than 10 year outflow average. This water source if a finate quantity and rocks are not sponges that absorb large amounts of water.

@feralcat8424 Жыл бұрын

Anyone else see that huge fish... 1:52 - 1:54... 😳 Appreciate the update, am VERY concerned about this situation. 👍

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah! That's one of the "Cat Daddies" aka Desert Catfish of Lake Mead 😎 You should see the size of them near the base of Hoover Dam. There are tales from divers of ones as big as sharks 😳 If you ever visit go to Lake Mead Marina and feed some of the "regular size" catfish off the dock, you'll see what I mean. Thanks for watching!

@johnrobinson4741 Жыл бұрын

YOUR RIGHT- every bode that posts just puts their own spin on same old stuff...Tell us some thing new..

@nancyvaughn4303 Жыл бұрын

The problem with the atmospheric river water is most of the rain fall goes into the ocean. Mead and Powell are fed by snow pack. We will see how much actually fell in spring.

@roberttaylor465 Жыл бұрын

All the rules and regulations, the land of the free.

@prst99 Жыл бұрын

Make users collect money first. Then when the funds are sufficient, then make extensions of boat ramps. The users should pay first.

@mikej238 Жыл бұрын

I'll bet money the water level rises substantially this spring. Snowfall has been incredible and this week there could be 3 or 4 more storms hitting the west.

@jodyguilbeaux8225 Жыл бұрын

right, in texas we call it weather. nothing more or nothing less, it is just weather.

@rogermezenen6505 Жыл бұрын

I’ll never understand why anyone would ever say... hey let’s go ahead and let more out, than what comes in. That’s smart. Water management is not that difficult.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

I agree! It seems like when things should just be left alone, they intervene, and the only time critical decisions actually need to be made, they make the worst possible opposite decision and screw things up worse. Now they admittedly manipulate the numbers to shield water abusers from mandatory cuts? What is really going on here? Someone with deep pockets and a lot of pull...

@rogermezenen6505 Жыл бұрын

Like they always say, follow the money

@paulmortensen6294 Жыл бұрын

The more people, the more demand on nature!

@peewee7530 Жыл бұрын

Parks should fix the lakes - they charge to get into them!

@chrisbeck2197 Жыл бұрын

The fees the park takes in doesn't begin to pay there bills! The parks have BILLIONS of dollars worth of maintenance on infrastructure that is NOT being done. There is a lot of parks with buildings falling apart. ( mostly smaller parks and in the employee and survive areas not seen by the public)

@EdgarClay Жыл бұрын

Hoping with all the rain it gets better

@jasonfrodoman1316 Жыл бұрын

There is only one way to resolve the problem at Lake Mead. And note: restricted recreation is the least of the problem. It seems the water needs agriculture downstream of Mead must be addressed. An external source found for that need. Years ago there were plans to connect the Sultan Sea (now also a complete disaster area) to either the Pacific or to the Sea of Cortez. The easiest option is the Cortez model. IF, the Sultan Sea can be resurrected, then desalination facilities could then supply the agricultural need in the surrounding areas. This would absolutely take the pressure off the Colorado basin. However, the plan cost $$$. But the days of twisting a valve at Powell and Mead to provide the bandaid solution are OVER. This is a Federal infrastructure problem.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Very well said thank you for watching and commenting!

@johnfoote1168 Жыл бұрын

Thank you from NZ, loved your production, we are really shocked at the lack of water available to the farmers and families dependent on the Colorado catchment, there is no surprise that so many people would want live outside LA and secure a piece of land, it brings to mind an article in the National Geographic many years ago showing virtually zero feed into the Gulf of Mexico from the Colorado, there are no easy answers only radical proposals such as removing some hydro electric dams, you can adapt without traditional electricity but water is for life, good luck and god bless

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting! I just started looking into the end of the Colorado river and delta area in Mexico like you mention from National Geographic, and it is striking to see how the area changed and dried up to basically no flow!

@methylmike Жыл бұрын

good info, ty for clearing all that up. F the gov

@adidas20zero Жыл бұрын

Went to Grand Canyon yesterday and I was like I being charged to see something there longer than anyone alive today!!!

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

I like that way of phrasing it that's hilarious 👍 Just like Lake Mead was just a hot dry desolate canyon no one cared about, imagine trying to charge people to see that 100 years ago. I don't know why at this point in our travels, but first time we went to the Grand Canyon I was surprised by the big entrance gates and fees. So odd trying to make nature into Disneyworld...

@adidas20zero Жыл бұрын

@MOJO ADVENTURES I was telling my cousin that. We are we being charged to see something that exist way before anyone who alive today.

@raylarkin5004 Жыл бұрын

Well this takes the fun out of visiting and recreation there

@marktemplin1159 Жыл бұрын

Idk what that judge is thinking,,, filming is inddmeed protected under the 1st ammendmant ,,, we are the free press,,,, this must be challanged,,, for a judge to rule that video is not a right needs taken off the bench!!!!!!

@scabthecat Жыл бұрын

I'd like two test cases to go before that judge. One filming water levels falling and one filming water levels rising.

@zenonpiotrowski4425 Жыл бұрын

I think that there would need to be a complete reversal of the amount of rainfall and snowfall in the North over the next three years to be able to get back to water levels of the past. Based on the data you shared it doesn't look promising that Lake Mead will fill up to levels previously seen.

@rosemariemann1719 Жыл бұрын

Dear Xenon Pietrowski, I wonder if enough water from the recent huge storms , off the Pacific Ocean, will help restore water levels ? Desertification has seemed to increase in recent years....? I hope it all balances itself out soon.... Best Wishes from England.☺️ 🇬🇧☺️🐟🇬🇧💕🇺🇸🦉🌈🌧️🇬🇧

@Taskerofpuppets Жыл бұрын

@@rosemariemann1719 It’s mainly snowmelt and lack thereof in the Mountains. Same thing happening up Grand Tetons Lake Jackson. This is what I learned when I was there this summer.

@Howoldareweanywayyipes Жыл бұрын

The guitar is cool.

@jKLa Жыл бұрын

Anyone has the right to film in National parks without a permit and pay no fine, and defend against anyone who tries to stop or to "punish" them. PERIOD!

@carvingtheway Жыл бұрын

🙏🏻

@rogerdudra178 Жыл бұрын

Greetings from the BIG SKY. Kinda dry here, too.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Howdy, thanks for watching! 👍

@backcountyrpilot Жыл бұрын

Why the heck isn’t virtually all farming done in parts of the country that don’t require irrigation? In Minnesota, for example, there are “10,000 lakes” and an abundance of water. Only potato’s planted in sandy soil require it. Corn, oats, soy beans, alfalfa, etc., do not.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

That is the question! Especially with technology available to build huge industrial growhouses virtually anywhere in the country, why farm in the desert? You'll find there is a lot of backroom deals, kickbacks, and shady politics involved in the foreign owned farms and bottled water giants sucking our rivers dry.

@wm3293 Жыл бұрын

Westerns would be in amazement if they seen how much water goes over Niagara Falls each second or the amount of water in the Great Lakes water levels are still high up here

@poppasan1873 Жыл бұрын

Maybe someone can make a video of it and show it to them. Also the 3 upper lakes are exceeding the 100 year average level by about 1-1/2 feet per NOAA great lakes dashboard. Ten years ago they were about a foot short of that level.

@wm3293 Жыл бұрын

@@poppasan1873 I got Vidoes of Niagara Falls US side on my Channel

@appomattoxross6751 Жыл бұрын

Wow. How I miss the Boy Scouts in the 1970s. So much simpler.

@missingremote4388 Жыл бұрын

I think both the Sierra and Rocky mountains . Will be snow capped 45 feet deep. So much that not all will be melted over the summer i.e. the North Face. Winter 23/24 should be just as good 45 feet at mountain elevation 9,000feet ➕️

@glencook4828 Жыл бұрын

Look up the story of lake Mathew’s in riverside county in California. The lake is not open to the public and does pretty well as a result. I think maybe it might be time for lake mead to do something similar.

@johnnybgoode6466 Жыл бұрын

Hello from New Zealand, is there any other rivers in the wider area that could used to pipeline water to Lake Mead. Looks dire now going from the snapshots from a few years ago. Very beautiful area though. We have a similar issue with the Selwyn River in Canterbury region in NZ where arid land is being dairy farmed - the worst use of water, it was always a dry stock animal area until some greedy people wanted more $$$.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Hello out there and welcome to the channel all the way from New Zealand! There has been several commenters here that recommend diverting certain flood prone areas in this part of the US. One you might see mentioned a lot is the Flaming River Gorge area. In my own humble opinion I think the answer won't be for more water, projects, and wasted taxpayer money, but for the whole area to rely LESS on the Colorado River, and water in general. Like you mention with the dairy farming in Canterbury, we have farmers growing crop in the deserts of AZ and CA unnecessarily and that irrigation is currently the biggest user of the river. In this day and age almost any crop can be grown inside huge industrial warehouses just about anywhere. The solutions are there...

@426superbee4 Жыл бұрын

It should be filling up, with all this rain and snow storms

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

First front has passed 2 more on deck from the pineapple express! The mountains look so nice with the new blanket of snow. Heard there was an avalanche up there last week!

@Henry1814 Жыл бұрын

Reservoir only. The rest is, "What do I deserve and why should I put up with limits, eh?"

@johnclark2212 Жыл бұрын

Just Way to many people, this has happened many places in the world, extra people = extra pressure on water resources.

@jimcurrier3922 Жыл бұрын

Some parks generate more income than they use and the government puts the surplus in to the general fund. it should rename in the park fund, to be used for all parks!!!

@rogerdudra178 Жыл бұрын

Well, when I go to Yellowstone Park I guess I'll have to go through CUSTOMS to get in.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Only if they approve your reservation and grant you permission 120 days in advance first 😉

@rodrickchapman8291 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for pictures an comments. Maybe it will dong on people.

@limyrob1383 Жыл бұрын

The NPS management of recreation makes sense when the lake is viable, but now its in danger and so it makes sense to return to the original purpose of water and energy under the USBR until the long term stability is sorted out. Recreation has grown into a business but it is not the primary purpose, while the boaters can protest, who are they aiming at? Its nature that will determine the rainfall and no agency can really influence that to any great extent.

@426superbee4 Жыл бұрын

I can't pen point it YET? But some thing very fishy about filming the lake? Why would they do this FOR? We have the rights to film any thing. What are they going to do? CUT OUR EYES OUT?

@julieg1746 Жыл бұрын

We lived at Echo Bay for 12 years until they closed, does anyone know what happened to the marina store?

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! The entire marina was sitting on the ground for a while after Echo Bay dried up. It's mostly all gone now. The boarded up hotel and restaurant is still there. If you want to see what the marina store looked like after Echo dried up there is an older video from another channel showing it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/otmmh8h12JPYZYE.html

@AmeriMutt76 Жыл бұрын

YOU wouldn't want a Knieval filming while you were there. I'd be there for it.

@terrybensie4794 Жыл бұрын

Las Vegas will end up on Mystery of the abandoned.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

I can't hardly wait to explore the shuttered casinos, this is going to be MUCH more exciting than that one time Buffalo Bills closed! 🤠

@dalejensen5828 Жыл бұрын

Boaters need to cover 100% of the cost to maintain their desired services.

@bryontharp5790 Жыл бұрын

Dang dude you speak good

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

haha thanks 👍

@onehot57 Жыл бұрын

Man we the public need a lot less Government!

@OleGeezerCirca1941 Жыл бұрын

Informative and educational update, excellent video. Any time you have bureaucrats with their fingers in the public's pie, the pie becomes septic, and everyone becomes sick.

@paulavery366 Жыл бұрын

If it wasn't for the bureaucrats, we wouldn't have Lake Mead, Lake Powell and a thousand other federal diversion, storage, irrigation and hydro-power systems. The Southwest USA would look like Saudi Arabia and we could not have won in WW2 (insufficient aluminum, electric power and no nuclear industry).

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Ha! Well said👍 It is true that many of these projects start with great intentions and apirations, but when funding and agendas get involved, all other data and logic gets pushed aside. Especially in the modern day. John Wesley Powell saw all this coming!

@kreepyits-o7761 Жыл бұрын

Went up little but will never ever be as full as it was 20 years ago

@kevinsnyder8448 Жыл бұрын

Here is how i see it who ever had water running threw that state is in control of that said water body . What ever township municipality city that had minimum water resources and made arrangements with the water barrons needs to plan way ahead like they should have been doing years and years ago. Make you own water find your own water create your own dang reservior and tell the rest to kiss your dust.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

That is basically how John Wesley Powell saw it also in the 1800's and it makes perfect sense. Western states should have been divided by watersheds, and the water *mainly* stays in the region. No water in that region? Then no development. You're going to enjoy the next "Behind the Drought" episode I'm working on, lots of history on this topic. Thank you for watching and adding to the conversation!

@dancox3794 Жыл бұрын

This stuff is why I no longer go to national parks.....only state parks.

@WindyYucca Жыл бұрын

We should boycott National Parks, but most people are so god dam brain dead they don't stand up for anything.

@Bryan-Hensley Жыл бұрын

I don't ask.. it's my public property and the authorities work for me.

@tomast9034 Жыл бұрын

you know it goes all down the drain when they start beat the money out from every activity.

@JayRuperRoe Жыл бұрын

The Federal Gov't should have nothing to do with this. It's a States issue, if they want to(the states the lake is in)let them spend the money.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

I thought of that a bit also... make it a State Park let local boaters, marinas and businesses manage the current areas or sell them to private ownership.

@allend1980 Жыл бұрын

It’s easy, who ever has been making the money from the recreational use should be the one paying to maintain it. They only have been given control over the lake so they can maintain it

@CDCDPDX Жыл бұрын

I think the effects of climate change and budgetary restrictions may force NPS to abandon the boat ramp maintenance. Perhaps boat users should access the NRA the same way they access Yellowstone or Zions. In those cases, the NPS is not responsible for the consequences visitors encounter because of their interaction with nature in those parks. Specifically, I remember a ranger saying in a briefing that if people are attacked by cougars because they insist on hiking in dangerous areas, or fall off narrow ridges because they don't want guardrails; then likewise, if boat users insist on trying to take motorized equipment into the lake on abandoned ramps, that should be their decision and the consequences should be theirs alone.

@thepatriot8394 Жыл бұрын

Bottom line is too many people are living off that water resource. Supply and demand...

@jerijames2876 Жыл бұрын

nevada is not trying to conserve water. lush green properties is not water reduction. and golf courses and man made lakes is not water reduction. and their crying for more water. do your part. but AZ past governor gave away water to a middle eastern country to grown a crop to ship back to their country. no limit on water consumption.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and commenting! In 2021, Las Vegas used 27 billion gallons LESS water than it did in 2002, even though it added over 750,000 residents between 2002 and 2021. I agree about golf courses and man made lakes, but the city's view at this point is basically "if it's already there, it's already there." At least they put a moratorium on any *new* man made lakes, it takes a lot for these city officials to break lockstep with the developers that own them.

@joblo341 Жыл бұрын

If they need more money for building ramps, then add a surcharge to park entrance fees, ensure the extra money is directed explicitly to this work. Start charging the marinas for the work to provide electricity and sewage etc.

@shepdogsd Жыл бұрын

You didn't say why you are still filiming since the ruling was reversed....according to their website they are "evaluating how best to regulate filming activities". So they are sitting on their hands for now.

@Bryan-Hensley Жыл бұрын

They don't have the authority to regulate it. If no one obeys no one rules

@TheRolfano Жыл бұрын

What do I think? Well recreational issues should be at the bottom of the list and drinking water should be at the too as a basic need to survive. Conservation is not a solution with the demand we currently have and the 20 decline in water levels of the reservoirs. We need to mobilize the Army Corps of Engineers to solve the water issue in the West. This will not be an overnight solution and it should have started 10 years ago! Now all we need is a functioning government and awareness to this HUGE issue!