The Great Salt Lake getting billions of gallons of water

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The Great Salt Lake getting billions of gallons of water

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Жыл бұрын

The Weber Basin Water Conservancy District opened up a spillway Thursday that is now releasing billions of gallons of water into the Great Salt Lake.

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@thehammer3193 Жыл бұрын

It takes 325,851 gallons of water for 1 Acre foot of water. The great Salt Lake is a little over 1 million square acres. So, to raise the lake a single foot will require approximately 325.851 billion gallons of water. If we are releasing "a few billion gallons per day" ( I always understood a few = 3 or so) then we would need to keep this going for about 3.5 months to raise the lake a single foot. This is why people are saying it's not enough. Because it isn't.

@travisritzman6772 Жыл бұрын

And yet the lake level has risen 4 feet since January.???

@triciac1019 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining that!

@justaguyfromreddit Жыл бұрын

imagine using metric system

@Gravitycreatedlife Жыл бұрын

@@travisritzman6772since November 22

@thehammer3193 Жыл бұрын

@@travisritzman6772 Not sure why that is a question. It has risen 4 feet because the lake has received a little over 1 Trillion gallons of water. Much of that falling directly from storms. It kind of gives you a new appreciation for mother nature's ability to move water. Plus, from the article we are talking about a few billion gallons a day of new water flow into the GSL. There were already existing flows. We are just adding to it. I was merely pointing out the extra efforts we are making are great, but in the end, it won't make that much of a difference.

@trentgay3437 Жыл бұрын

A little drop in the bucket, but I'm glad you guys got it.

@phav1832 Жыл бұрын

The video looked like several drops :-)

@reidellis1988 Жыл бұрын

I have been alive for almost 53 years. Not once has Alta had over 900 inches of snow. This year was not one in ten.

@PleaseLikeMyComments Жыл бұрын

Completely agree.

@1sttigertiger426 Жыл бұрын

This year's wet winter was a rare occurrence. What is the long-term plan, and source(s) of the additional water for farmer, industry, residents and the Great Salt Lake?

@williebeamish5879 Жыл бұрын

Long term plans? Is that actually possible with our governing bodies?

@Scionmalth Жыл бұрын

The long term plan is to let all the drinkable water go to the salty sea so they can raise your water bill and control your life !

@LK-pc4sq Жыл бұрын

um no its not. Earth is going into another ElNinoo so the moisture is traveling out of the south pacific and into the coast of the SW usa.

@TP-ie3hj Жыл бұрын

Live a little longer you will see you have been taken for a ride. This is how it works...lakes been there for a long time and will be there for a long time...in my life they were building pumps to get ridd of the water...you too will see this at some time as well. Then it will go down...back up ...back down... someone just wants your money or your vote..

@shawnjensen3896 Жыл бұрын

Long-term plan, mother nature

@triciac1019 Жыл бұрын

Something I noticed during the winter is that the snow melted on my neighbor's gravel area and their artificial turf where the snow on my lawn didn't melt as fast. This showed me that not only do we need to be waterwise, we need to do it in a way that keeps our yards cooler. We can see also that the snow melts on asphalt and cement faster than on grass.

@levidudley Жыл бұрын

Yes it’s called the Albedo effect. Good Point.

@NickoBaggins Жыл бұрын

It also depends on which direction your yard is facing. My south-facing driveway generally melts quickly with little need for shoveling while my neighbors across the street have to shovel and salt theirs. Similar story with snow on our lawns - mine melts first.

@AhJodie Жыл бұрын

Yes, shade is good. I can hardly stand to go to the side of town where there are few trees and huge parking lots for Discount stores in the summer because of the temperature increase and raise in uncomfortableness! Flowers come up first on the sides of walls facing south, because the ground gets warmer faster.

@gljames24 Жыл бұрын

The Urban heat effect can be reduced with more tree coverage, more public transit reducing asphalt, and aerodynamic buildings that allow the wind to wick away heat from urban areas.

@ncubesays Жыл бұрын

Very good point. Native grasses too!!

@shane8225 Жыл бұрын

Everyone needs to put in native plants for front yards and unused grassy areas at businesses. Also all new construction needs to be Native plants,gravel or some water wise landscaping.

@cyankirkpatrick5194 Жыл бұрын

Pea gravel helps retain water.

@laskey2175 Жыл бұрын

So once every 10 years we have enough water for 2 years. 😟

@rosiehawtrey Жыл бұрын

There was a kinda fundamental reason people didn't live in Utah until science and the industrial revolution started happening. Its mostly desert and rattlesnakes.. Although the Amerindians did quite well there by seeing their population and activities to the environment, not vice versa..

@savagegtalks5912 Жыл бұрын

@@rosiehawtrey technology makes people ignorant to how many the land can actually sustain 🤣

@dfinlen Жыл бұрын

Why not Nuclear powered desalination plants or cloud seeding The reasons for scarcity are all man made. The myth that nature is fragile and sacred will destroy our children's future.

@rosiehawtrey Жыл бұрын

@@dfinlen Not a scientist are you? The problem isn't the amount of water you can shove through a desalinator, it's not even nuclear waste, if you use Thorium. The problem is heat, in the water that goes back into the sea, we already are on the knife edge for Aragonite - shed loads of any type of desalination = heat = acidity = shells don't form (Aragonite) = the Great Dying II. But I wouldn't worry, we'll be well on the way to extinction in about 3 generations anyway - look up micro dosing, pyrethroids, dioxin, pcbs, and the like.. Fertility related birth defects like double wombs and intersex conditions. Humanity has done a brilliant job of killing itself.

@savagegtalks5912 Жыл бұрын

@@dfinlen the myth? what an ignorant view from a typical America... You absolutely don't know how to preserve your nature and country. Without a doubt, you is part of the laughing stock... 🤣 "children's future", your boarders been open for the past 250 years... you failed. Trojans also expected to be here today... but they also failed at keeping the boarders closed and draw bridge up.

@TrilobitesRTasty Жыл бұрын

Do folks know if there is discussion about Utah decreasing the use of grass lawns (which require watering, of course), in favor of desert landscaping?

@bob15479 Жыл бұрын

Only 10% of GSL inflow diversions go to residential use, both culinary AND outdoor. Meanwhile 80% go to agriculture. Residents could cease watering, drinking and bathing altogether and it works do little for GSL

@TrilobitesRTasty Жыл бұрын

@@bob15479 I know in California, famers grow crops that use massive amounts of water...such as rice and oats. That needs to stop. We even export rice to China! So, what crops are raised in Utah that require a lot of water? ..cattle?

@katherinem.4414 Жыл бұрын

I know….very stupid, and I live in the middle-eastern part of the valley. We did something else with our yard. Our sprinkler system got punctured, so we could not maintain the lawn in every area. I consider it in part, a blessing. I wish our yard was managed better, though. I just do not have the say. We have a water 💦 conservation place in the valley, to show people how to do it, so we should all plant to conserve…,at least with part of our yards if not all. I hopefully will be moving from here one day, though. I need to be where it is quieter, and less crowded.

@fabulousauruspeks7010 Жыл бұрын

@@TrilobitesRTasty Utah's big water-wasting crop is alfalfa.

@Sidicas Жыл бұрын

Make the basin bigger. When reservoirs are full you have 2 years of deliveries? And it only fills up every 10 years? Get these people that can't figure out this math out of positions of government ASAP!

@TheEsseboy Жыл бұрын

Because if that reservoir could hold 10 years worth it wouldn't let anything through for the rest of the basins down stream...there isn't enough water...

@therightquestion2983 Жыл бұрын

We didn't prepare before.....and we ended up in this mess. We definitely need to conserve! (like NOT building a stupid Waterpark in St. George)

@billhosko7723 Жыл бұрын

You sanctimonious types NEVER do all you can to limit YOUR impacts upon Earth. Neverrrr...

@therightquestion2983 Жыл бұрын

@@billhosko7723 You would be very wrong! And you're confusing common sense with sanctimony.

@therightquestion2983 Жыл бұрын

@@billhosko7723 Actually you judgemental types never gather actual info before you judge someone. My family is very conservation minded....from food to gas and water. What do you do?

@rodneyficklin9281 Жыл бұрын

Of course we need to use water more wisely as populations grow! We can also stop for five minutes and be grateful for a record setting year. I would like to see more data as to were we are and what projected needs are and projected plans to deal with growing needs.

@drcornelius8275 Жыл бұрын

Populations aren't growing in the US though.... oh yeah, millions of people from around the world walk into the country through open borders.

@cbpd89 Жыл бұрын

Since ~80% of Utah's water is used for agriculture, it's safe to say that the best thing we could do to prepare for a growing population is start choosing more water wise crops and using efficient watering methods (so not flooding and sprinklers like we do now)

@dlmalley8639 Жыл бұрын

Agreed 👍 but Red States ( Republicans) don't believe in Science. 🙄😑

@dlmalley8639 Жыл бұрын

@@drcornelius8275 over population is a world wide issue. India. China Malaysia many countries are in trouble. Be prepared for a huge migration of people who once had homes and food as the environment of Earth decline.

@the-Albino-Rhino Жыл бұрын

The data says stop growing.

@Mooocheropordis Жыл бұрын

In Britain during a long drought in the 70s the govt advice was to share a bath with a friend 😅. So good to see you're blessed with rain

@Jaradis Жыл бұрын

They need to build a tunnel from the Snake River to the GSL. It's about 70 miles, so we've done that before. The NYC aqueduct is ~100 miles long and the Arizona one is 336 miles long. When the Snake River is flooding you can divert water to the GSL to reduce the flooding along the Snake River.

@c1ifactation Жыл бұрын

This is a brilliant idea makes you wonder why they haven’t done it yet

@zombiecucumber7700 Жыл бұрын

Good luck getting the state of Idaho to go along with that.

@c1ifactation Жыл бұрын

@@zombiecucumber7700 I mean the snake floods a lot more and has way more water to spare

@krisb5638 Жыл бұрын

the closest points between the two are very similar in elevation as well, leading to what theoretically would be a somewhat easily managed system that could be highly beneficial for the entire western US

@CortexNewsService Жыл бұрын

That's what people thought when they built aqueducts from the Colorado River to LA. That's become a problem. The Snake also feeds the Columbia River. Oregon and Washington are getting drier and will need that water as well. It's a nice idea but a project that large could have a lot of big unintended consequences.

@user-qr2gd7me6c Жыл бұрын

When speaking of great volumes of water, one does not use the small measure of a "gallon". Rather one speaks of "acre feet" of water.

@ut000bs Жыл бұрын

Well, professor. It depends on your target audience. The average person would not know how much water an acre foot is.

@vickieskinn9641 Жыл бұрын

Thank God for water. 🙏 Praise God.

@troy.peters Жыл бұрын

Your god had nothing to do with it.

@gtv6chuck Жыл бұрын

@@troy.peters That was completely unnecessary. Think about it, then think about it again.

@troy.peters Жыл бұрын

@@gtv6chuck What am I supposed to think about? If some god made it rain, why did the same god cause the drought? So you can say praise to him for fixing his wrong and make yourself feel like you did something good?

@gtv6chuck Жыл бұрын

@@troy.peters That has nothing to do with it. It has to do with respect for other people, their beliefs and feelings.

@troy.peters Жыл бұрын

@@gtv6chuck What about respecting the beliefs and feelings of those who don't want to hear about some god? I do not disrespect anyone for their beliefs, they can believe whatever they want. There is just no need to post about some god you believe solved the issue.

@Makifo Жыл бұрын

Build more reservoirs while the winters are plentiful.

@writethisthat3613 Жыл бұрын

That's a very logical, reasonable, common sense, well thought out statement. How on Earth did this get by the moderators?!

@procrastinatingpuma Жыл бұрын

It doenst work like that

@aired-downdisconnected4125 Жыл бұрын

Hopefully this water is used wisely. Might not get another winter like this.

@weirdshibainu Жыл бұрын

Of course we'll get another winter like this.

@themidnighttavern6784 Жыл бұрын

@@weirdshibainu What's the evidence to back up your claim? This is the most amount of snow we've gotten in decades, arguably the highest amount of snowfall in the history of recorded Utah winters.

@weirdshibainu Жыл бұрын

@@themidnighttavern6784 Decades is nothing in terms of climate or weather. 99 percent of what we know about weather we've learned since ww2. Records are broken repeatedly. What are you thinking? This is the heaviest snowfall we've ever received or ever will? Where's your evidence?

@themidnighttavern6784 Жыл бұрын

@@weirdshibainu So this is a freak storm, a 1 in 50 year event. That's what I'm using as the basis for my claims. It's a statistical outlier. Will we get another winter like this? Maybe in another few decades. But we can't reliably count on it.

@d.e.p.-j.7106 Жыл бұрын

@@weirdshibainu The article says it's 1 out of 10 years. That's not often.

@grumpygnome9316 Жыл бұрын

Ever notice how everybody's got to conserve except government

@bobfish3176 Жыл бұрын

Funny how they want the public to conserve when they only use 4-7% of the water!

@robl7347 Жыл бұрын

so they are telling people to conserve while they dump fresh water into a salt lake. Doesn't make sense.

@dr.a006 Жыл бұрын

I’ll do my part to relieve excess water in the Weber river by watering my lawn. Kind of a diversion if you will.😅

@luckyc3926 Жыл бұрын

💯

@luckyc3926 Жыл бұрын

Just doesn’t make sense.

@NickoBaggins Жыл бұрын

There will be huge environmental impacts to the valley if the great salt lake dries up - it would be catastrophic to the people living here.

@luckyc3926 Жыл бұрын

@@NickoBaggins Sorry my friend but it has been drying for over 1000 years. Where I live it was once covered in water. One day there maybe a mormon living in the bottom of what was once the GSL.

@TheCactusjack1 Жыл бұрын

It will never snow or rain ever again.

@MarshallArtz007 Жыл бұрын

Good to know! 😀

@markbrockman9859 Жыл бұрын

Don’t forget Utah needs to keep those wealthy residents in green golf courses.

@Pusha-lh7tg Жыл бұрын

Drive your truck on it

@spockspock Жыл бұрын

Time to fire up the West DesertPumping Station! Thanks Norm Bangerter for your foresight!

@DWilliams-ce8nb Жыл бұрын

''We still have the need to jack up your water bill Sky High'' LOL

@Distress. Жыл бұрын

Water bill should always be high in the DESERT southwest.

@tomcaviar7651 Жыл бұрын

They’re always stuck in a drought. Its the never ending drought

@ut000bs Жыл бұрын

That is probably why they call it a desert.

@mr.potter9426 Жыл бұрын

And don't forget to stay scared.

@michaeldeierhoi4096 Жыл бұрын

Your non sequitur comment helps no one!!

@mr.potter9426 Жыл бұрын

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 and yours does?

@michaeldeierhoi4096 Жыл бұрын

@@mr.potter9426 Of course. I'm just stating the obvious for those who sometimes miss the obvious!! 😅

@mr.potter9426 Жыл бұрын

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 so what you are really saying is I am correct, ty,apology accepted.

@michaeldeierhoi4096 Жыл бұрын

@@mr.potter9426 😂😅. Take it however you want. And have a good day while you are at it.

@PInk77W1 Жыл бұрын

I’m riding my bicycle from Reno to SLC next week. Hope I don’t get washed away

@jimtaylor6930 Жыл бұрын

Part of the problem is those metal gate dams they got in the Jordan river set too high water is not moving . Like it use to years ago . Same is with the Weber and Ogden where they both meet. Dont know on the Bear river if it has any of those gates and if it flows in to the lake . They just need to lower those gates some to get a more even flow year round to the lake . Bit of history here way back in the 60s in the winter I'd be walking in snow up to my knees in grade school. 70s was just below the knees in jr high and high school . The last really good snow we got was 36 inches in the valley. I forget what year that was. Fact is when the Great Salt Lake has plenty of water in it we dont really have dry years . Any way i put my two bits worth in on this wayer situation

@reidellis1988 Жыл бұрын

Lake effect is essential. The problem is that there will never be enough water to facilitate endless development. Utah is the second driest state.

@davidstaley7290 Жыл бұрын

We are actually in, a 4 times every 300 hundred year event and should have strong winters for the next five years….

@Isaachsargent Жыл бұрын

How about we get smart like Las Vegas where we recycle 97% of our water 😂

@billiamc1969 Жыл бұрын

GUARANTEE the lake will NOT fill back to "normal levels"

@cbpd89 Жыл бұрын

It would say 3-4 years of this kind of snow to get the lake back to normal.

@MO-qd6tm Жыл бұрын

Yet you have people like Elon musk complaining that lack of human population growth is unsustainable. Make that make sense to me. Less people is a good thing!!

@justdobetter8 Жыл бұрын

Awesome. Water is much needed in Salt lake.

@arklinmike Жыл бұрын

2:24 He hit the nail on the head. continually growing the population is not sustainable. It's already too much, or there wouldn't be so much worry.

@ut000bs Жыл бұрын

It isn't the population as much as it is we aren't expanding infrastructure to meet it. Look at California. They haven't okayed a new water project in over 40 years. We are outgrowing our ability to supply.

@TheTexasDuke Жыл бұрын

Indeed learn to store it better

@rolandaaden-hussey1672 Жыл бұрын

Conserve water everyone! We need to be sure there's enough for the golf courses!!

@slothmarathonpromotions2470 Жыл бұрын

I hear they are changing the name to the mediocre salt lake

@rickylee4228 Жыл бұрын

In a few years it’ll be the “Meh Salt Lake”.

@Dog.soldier1950 Жыл бұрын

Wait what? We were told only a weeks ago that the GSL was disappearing FOREVER!

@sherise_2020 Жыл бұрын

I agree we still need to conserve, Utah has had crazy weather since 2012

@happycanayjian1582 Жыл бұрын

Utah is the 2nd driest State in the country!?!? 😳 Nevada? Arizona? New Mexico? I never would have guessed Utah would be second…

@markdoolan7282 Жыл бұрын

I am not american but i have seen videos of that Salton lake in California . I think this lake is in Utah I’m guessing. Nevertheless i am wondering if all this excess water in the Californian reservoirs could not dump or pump the excess over into that Salton lake to help save it , or flush it or whatever as it has lost so much water over the last few decades. Just saying all this would be a place they could redirect the excess and may be do something good with it and avoid flooding? May be it’s not that simple and I’m talking crap but suddenly you have got all this over load of water and that Salton Sea needs a drink bad.

@freefall9832 Жыл бұрын

Wasn't that man-made?

@beyondthebreaks Жыл бұрын

The Salton Sea was an engineering failure and disaster. A lake that shouldn't exist. GSL is a natural body of water.

@kylea4953 Жыл бұрын

Still need to conserve and up your water bill for our revenue. It's gullible warming people don't pay attention to all the 15 minute cities we are developing.

@papasquat355 Жыл бұрын

Just do to the GSL what California did to Lake Tulare and get rid of it. We don't need lakes anyway. They're a waste of prime real-estate for condos, apartments, and WalMart stores.

@randomreal3228 Жыл бұрын

is there any fish on the lake? (asking from the fishing enthusiast point of view)

@ptyleranodon3081 Жыл бұрын

The only thing you're fishing out of there is brine shrimp and salt.

@famousnobodyz Жыл бұрын

That's a Great Start!

@JaneHall-xc2wd Жыл бұрын

2nd dryest state in nation. I wonder how many golf courses huge hotel grounds are located in that state?

@davidhagerman7165 Жыл бұрын

What is needed is more reservoir's to extend the time period of the wet seasons.

@russian13973 Жыл бұрын

The reason we have water problems in California is because the government can’t find ways to use the problem to make money for their donors.

@billiamc1969 Жыл бұрын

WELL SAID...

@PabloRodriguez-xj1yk Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@weirdshibainu Жыл бұрын

I live in Nevada and had the opportunity to talk with a retired water resource manager from California. It was a long talk and he explained the machinations of water politics in California. This posting would be 3 feet long and still not do it justice. I asked him a question as the conversation continued " How is it that California is on the verge of a drought and yet I see bottled water from California in stores in Nevada and it's on sale? It doesn't make sense according to market economics." He said " It's easy...you know what the number one problem is for water management in California? It's that water flows uphill to the money."

@chhindz Жыл бұрын

How is the spiral jetty?

@azalli Жыл бұрын

Now tell the farmers to conserve it

@BreakneckTrent Жыл бұрын

Water is good

@pamelawing5747 Жыл бұрын

That lake really needs an influx of new water.

@raybod1775 Жыл бұрын

A billion here, a billion there, it adds up.

@UncleKennysPlace Жыл бұрын

"Billions" is cool, but if you added a couple of billion gallons instantly the the GSL, you wouldn't notice the increase in depth.

@wm3293 Жыл бұрын

Tell that to Niagara Falls

@redpillaware5101 Жыл бұрын

So no one is going to say anything about the helicopter collision that was narrowly avoided?

@starrider4878 Жыл бұрын

They sound like a politician. The snow is going to melt and cause flooding and I know because I paid hundreds of thousands to go to school to learn that.

@dtsh4451 Жыл бұрын

You are ripped off, literally can learn all of that on KZfaq for free😂

@will7its Жыл бұрын

Bunch of dumb "Experts"

@djaishwgak8017 Жыл бұрын

that news anchor lady was having trouble reading.

@Water-cr6pc Жыл бұрын

Save water!!!!

@STGKKS Жыл бұрын

Glad were packing in as many people as we possibly can along the wasatch front. I'm sure mother nature will provide.

@midwake9951 Жыл бұрын

Alfalfa farms and other water intensive ag are the biggest users by a lot. Typical consumers can't conserve their way out of the water shortage issues.

@cbpd89 Жыл бұрын

Midi is right. Household/yard use accounts for about 10% of water use, agriculture for about 80%. If we can get farmers to switch away from alfalfa and field flooding and sprinklers, we'd save a lot of water.

@krishgounder5116 Жыл бұрын

Conservation is planned. Hopefully, they will replenish the aquifers. 😢

@RCdiy Жыл бұрын

Maybe ban lawns.

@MikeSmith-ch7jv Жыл бұрын

the climate is cumming back!

@guidedmeditation2396 Жыл бұрын

Before you get too excited. All that water is going to be very salty.

@stanleymcomber4844 Жыл бұрын

How about shutting down the immigration particularly illegal immigration to the state. We only have so much water, so increasing the state population does not help the water issue.

@melvinrexwinkle1510 Жыл бұрын

OMG, the lake is not going dry?

@markmiranda9461 Жыл бұрын

The fact that California has dumped billions into the fast rail track that’s not even 40% done but hasn’t started making more reservoirs until last year is a complete failure.

@MarkTurner-vs7uc Жыл бұрын

Liberals cry if it's dry, cry if it rains.

@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 Жыл бұрын

Snowflake.

@markbrockman9859 Жыл бұрын

As long as right wingers can keep their lawns and golf courses green.

@rpf276 Жыл бұрын

The American West could learn a lot from Israel in how to manage water in a country that is most desert and semi-arid and can't rely on their neighbors either. They are the world leaders at truly efficient water management and infrastructure.

@jimyeats Жыл бұрын

Managing water is a lot easier when your country is the size of New Jersey. Sure, doesn’t mean they don’t have good practices, but it’s a lot easier to implement that when your country is small enough to drive across lengthwise in about 5 hours.

@maxfastest Жыл бұрын

There's no profit in sensible living in our country . Never gonna happen.

@MrThorp1 Жыл бұрын

@@jimyeats yeah, not only is it the size of jersey, they are also right next to the Mediterranean sea. They get 75% of their water from desalinization. We only have a handful of states that could do that. Seeing as how Utah is like 1500 miles from the nearest ocean, it may be a problem.

@1rexrex Жыл бұрын

@@MrThorp1 Problem is that those states dont do it either. They buy water from states like Utah. If they did. Then Utah would have the water it needed.

@MrThorp1 Жыл бұрын

@@1rexrex as Steve mentioned above. Cheaper , therefore ,more profit to just buy it. Maybe Utah should stop selling

@jaygua8006 Жыл бұрын

Good thing i live in Chicago imma go to the lake tomorrow 🤪

@shawnjensen3896 Жыл бұрын

Seventh generation Utah boy here up my whole life drought drought drought. No question we were in a drought, but then we have a record-breaking year and everybody still negative. No one wants to say hey we’re good this year water but be careful and try to conserve it’s we gotta conserve like we’re still in the drought. The water is just going to run through the canals and the rivers and go out to the great Salt Lake anyway, so why not encourage people to water more right now to help alleviate the flooding

@daltontierney8064 Жыл бұрын

We are still in a drought. Just because we had a freak year of a ton of snow, that doesn’t constitute that we just say, “hey we’re good this year”. That makes no sense. The flooding needs to be addressed by the government and redirected. People don’t need to use more water to help alleviate the floods😂

@luckyc3926 Жыл бұрын

Bingo

@luckyc3926 Жыл бұрын

@@daltontierney8064 Watering more sure helps my drought stricken lawn. I’m dumping it to it this year.

@toniklemm1172 Жыл бұрын

And not once was climate change mentioned. It's amazing how reluctant people still are to mention the link to climate change when discussing extremes like dry or wet years.

@Ekka007 Жыл бұрын

When reservoirs are at maximum capacity there's only 2 years of supply.... that there is not good enough especially with an expanding population/city. Good luck.

@normansilver905 Жыл бұрын

Doing what is has been doing for that past thousand years or so. There is an abundance of water right now. BUT don' think the wests water woes are over with.

@Isaachsargent Жыл бұрын

I’d bet you next year we will be back into a drought seeing the reason re got all this rain and snow was due to a volcano eruption back in January. It released a bunch of water vapor into the troposphere which shifted the jet stream. Making the weather patters change. So therefor we probably will see continue drought

@ut000bs Жыл бұрын

That is not true or what caused our wet, cold winter.

@grantmorrey5138 Жыл бұрын

Honestly you've got a giggle. When humans think they are smarter than Mother Nature

@billhosko7723 Жыл бұрын

The link is filled with those that believe it... tho NONE of them EVER do all they can to limit THEIR impact upon Earth. Absolute hypocrites they ALL are.

@matthewmolina2706 Жыл бұрын

Most of that water is going to car washes , lawns and golf courses .

@geomodelrailroader Жыл бұрын

that's good news Salt Lake is healing itself. Hopefully there will be enough water this year to fill it up.

@billhosko7723 Жыл бұрын

Before man, it WAS vastly larger.

@saltylegion6288 Жыл бұрын

Desalination,say it with me folks Desalination. If they control the water they control you.

@marcoantonio-df4mr Жыл бұрын

Pretty good 👍

@mikeL1080p Жыл бұрын

Look at what Aamir Khan is doing in India with the Paani foundation. The American West could learn a lot from them.

@raclark2730 Жыл бұрын

Have been watching Andrew Millisons videos on the topic, great stuff.

@johnwilson6271 Жыл бұрын

Nice!!!

@owps663 Жыл бұрын

Spence saved the lake

@jessicatan8794 Жыл бұрын

So is the Great Salt Lake diluted? People can’t float on the lake anymore?

@cbpd89 Жыл бұрын

Not at all! It was getting so salty, it was killing the brine shrimp. Now it is slowly getting back to it's usual salinity levels.

@richarddecker9515 Жыл бұрын

You need more reservoirs

@lindastonebraker2512 Жыл бұрын

Visually it’s great… but we’re still out of our reserves and ground water.

@hobamasucs Жыл бұрын

What happen to "IMMINENT FAILURE" of the lake as the Enviro-Whackos and Climate Whiners were Screaming and Panicking about, earlier this year ?????

@letsburn00 Жыл бұрын

This is exactly what climate predictions said. Periods of droughts, then intense flooding. Moderate flows will be less likely.

@stuarthayward2220 Жыл бұрын

No worries, they’ll release enough water until there’s another “drought emergency”

@useyowords9745 Жыл бұрын

Freshwater? So it’s the kinda good salt lake now?

@Briguy1027 Жыл бұрын

Well it sounds like good news -- the Lake needs that water big time.

@notagain1952 Жыл бұрын

Golfers need their greens....

@Dr.Pepper001 Жыл бұрын

It is feast or famine when it comes to water in the Great Salt Lake.

@richarddecker9515 Жыл бұрын

Store ten or more years of water

@TheEsseboy Жыл бұрын

Then the river downstream would run dry, as there only rains enough for 2-5 years every 10 years, so 5-8 years would be bone dry.

@TR-nw8hz Жыл бұрын

Snow melts when its not cold

@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 Жыл бұрын

So is it still the Great Salt Lake, it should be more diluted by now?

@julielindholme9584 Жыл бұрын

Salt doesnt go anywhere!

@kepckatherinec805 Жыл бұрын

Here’s an idea-promote smaller families. Fewer people=less drain on resources, less environmental damage.

@TheEsseboy Жыл бұрын

Or, we could easily cut down on water use by 90% by not eating so much beef, pork and chicken...

@Pissedoffdetective Жыл бұрын

Cut off the Californian Vin Yards. They've completely drained the aquifers, which means even if it rained every day for the next 10000 years, the water table can never be the same again.

@TheEsseboy Жыл бұрын

No, the wine makers are not to blame, most of the water in Cali is used to grow AlfaAlfa and soy for livestock, vegetables and fruits...wine makers stand for less than 1% of Calis total water use..