Glen Canyon Dam releases water

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The Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Ariz., performed high flow experiments on April 25. Snowmelt is causing the dam's water levels rising over a foot per day after a historic winter. Read more: wapo.st/44NVjz3. Subscribe to The Washington Post on KZfaq: wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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@BushCampBruh 5 ай бұрын

I’m not trying to be a conspiracy theorist, but there’s no way a beaver made this.

@stormyswearengen9102 4 ай бұрын

Hilarious😂

@H33t3Speaks 4 ай бұрын

Durrr, it was aliens!🎉

@Mr_Offroad1 3 ай бұрын

Lol

@TheSrSunday 3 ай бұрын

It was a very smart, and powerful beaver

@vaibhavmaheshwari9192 3 ай бұрын

Or it could be an Alien Beaver

@MichaelIhde69 11 ай бұрын

My brain: jump in it

@avriljenifersexton912 7 ай бұрын

Ooooh do you think that would be wise ? I think you would get ripped to pieces in that water

@someonehasmyname 6 ай бұрын

@@avriljenifersexton912 just swim lol

@avriljenifersexton912 6 ай бұрын

@@someonehasmyname swim where ?

@shouryatiwari9943 6 ай бұрын

People don't understand joke nowadays.

@MichaelIhde69 6 ай бұрын

@@avriljenifersexton912 nah you’d be fine. Source: trust me bro

@user-ou8rf5tc4s 2 ай бұрын

I've read a number of comments that complain about this water being released into the Colorado River. It is evident that the purpose of Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam isn't fully understood. Lake Powell is, in part, a storage reservoir for Lake Mead. Releases here are made daily to supply water to that lake. Releases like this happen once a year or so to send "excess" water to Lake Mead. They also provide a "flood" through the Grand Canyon to clean out debris and "unnecessary" sand bars and "deltas " caused by flash floods on canyon streams during heavy rains. The floods also restore habitat for plants and animals that live in and around the canyon bottom. Naturally the floods add to the water level in Lake Mead. Due to the 20 plus years of drought, here in the southwest, both lakes are depressingly low. A moderately damp summer, last year, and a good snow fall in the upper Colorado River basin, this past winter, Lake Powell is getting a pretty good inflow from the rivers feeding it. Because of that, this release was planned to deliberately send this water to lake Mead. If you live in SoCal, you should be cheering, because this is the water you will be using this summer!

@curtisreynolds7708 2 ай бұрын

Finally some one who gets it

@williamhaynes7089 2 ай бұрын

so all the deltas and sand bars wash into lake mead and make it look more full than it really is?

@1gbayfisher 2 ай бұрын

Exactly. Well written!

@paulogden7417 2 ай бұрын

Well written yes. Note that this video is from last spring.

@stephenshell7678 2 ай бұрын

F socal

@andyp9747 3 ай бұрын

Lots of water experts here in the comments

@amaugh01 2 ай бұрын

Well, the so called experts keep saying that we have record snowpack, reservoirs at capacity, and still in a record 20-year drought but keep sending the water downstream to the ocean. The "experts" are expert at making simple things very difficult to explain and understand, but keep getting paid "record" wages.

@ric3774 2 ай бұрын

Excelente manera de oxigenar el agua 😊

@shogunzftw7655 2 ай бұрын

Well when you cant get the truth out of the so called experts you gotta become an expert yourself

@satanbirmingham911 2 ай бұрын

I love you this so much 😂

@christophergabel6656 Ай бұрын

For 5 seconds I thought you were Fred Rogers! 🤦🏻‍♂️

@7rays 4 ай бұрын

Well, the flow will still deposit itself in Lake Mead, so that’s a nice offset to the reduction that’s taken place there over the past 20 years

@Sophocles13 2 ай бұрын

Less than a drop in the bucket

@Cooliofamily 2 ай бұрын

Waking up in the morning like

@user-ou8rf5tc4s 2 ай бұрын

That's exactly what Lake Powell is supposed to do!

@mtnhighs 6 ай бұрын

I lived in Page during the late 90’s when Lake Powell was almost at full pool. How things have changed over the past 20+ years. That bathtub ring is ginormous now.

@AlanMydland-fq2vs 6 ай бұрын

dont worry LA will waste it😂

@carlosz7208 6 ай бұрын

@@AlanMydland-fq2vsLos Angeles has spent on infrastructure and water rights far from LA that benefit these podunk communities. Stay salty.

@aricchio7222 4 ай бұрын

That's what happens when stupid people get in places they don't belong. Especially when they don't know anything about water SUPPLY and DEMAND.

@gund89123 3 ай бұрын

@@AlanMydland-fq2vs How are they wasting water ?

@AlanMydland-fq2vs 3 ай бұрын

@@gund89123 over population

@dannyorsello8668 5 ай бұрын

Water is the new oil 😂

@DUTCHEE 4 ай бұрын

T Boone Pickens knew that years ago and invested tons of money into water. At one time he owned more water (aquifer rights) than anyone in the US. His plan was to sell Midwest water to western cities.

@michelleparker6202 3 ай бұрын

Robin Williams said it- water is more precious than gold - he’s absolutely right! They control the water they control the world

@devinjames9168 2 ай бұрын

one my old teachers said the next big war will be over water… and don’t come looking up here for it (Canada)

@Fence-Dogs-More 2 ай бұрын

Military steps in

@otabekisaqov8688 2 ай бұрын

@@devinjames9168true

@evanduckworth9681 4 ай бұрын

“It won’t do anything for the mega drought!” *flushes thousands of gallons of freshwater out of the reservoir*

@BlacKnight420 3 ай бұрын

They can’t have more water than capacity. It suck because when you have the most you don’t need it as much and it hardly replenishes throughout the year so it’s low during summer. Also you shouldn’t dam all the water since the river still needs to flow for wildlife and agriculture downstream

@evanduckworth9681 3 ай бұрын

@@BlacKnight420 sounds like it should be pumped elsewhere like how it works at the Hoover dam

@andrewgordon235 3 ай бұрын

People can't figure out they're being played by these so called experts. The government rules by fear they have to keep manufacturing it.

@stanleyhaskell8207 3 ай бұрын

@@evanduckworth9681might this be helping fill Lake Mead?

@evanduckworth9681 3 ай бұрын

@@stanleyhaskell8207 I’m no engineer but I’d say we have the technology to transport large amounts of water somewhere else 🤷‍♂️

@martinanderson1995 4 ай бұрын

Water is the most powerful natural force on earth.

@Sam-uf4zp 3 ай бұрын

Lightning!

@martinanderson1995 3 ай бұрын

@@Sam-uf4zp let's not split hairs. 😂

@briancosgrove3261 2 ай бұрын

Plate tectonics

@PelinalWhitestrake9147 2 ай бұрын

Earthquake

@jpsienicki 2 ай бұрын

It’s not a force. You’re probably referring to its erosive effects due to gravity, which is the weakest of the natural forces.

@joshtracy4441 2 ай бұрын

Media: “This will do nothing to stop the mega drought” Mother Nature: “Hold my beer”

@michaelspring3915 2 ай бұрын

Its a megadrought and you get a great snow season + rain and you have to bring up the negative of it will not solve the drought. Maybe its the begining of the end. Can you look at anything positively?

@jimparsons9454 2 ай бұрын

Let's say your in a plane that is about to crash but, the captain annouces there is no limit to how much alcohol you consume from the beverage cart. That doesn't change the fact that the plane is crashing and you are about to die.

@smilenowcrylater713 2 ай бұрын

Las Vegas, Arizona, all of Southern California, and a lot of the Southwest would never exist if it wasn’t for this one river The amount of water that actually melts and goes through this rivers all the way to Mexico, and feeds millions and millions of people and farmers in these homes and cities couldn’t exist without it is incredible and fascinating

@thewhiteloaf2175 2 ай бұрын

What parts of West Texas? I'm a farmer out here in West Texas. And we've only ever irrigated off the Rio grande (I just googled it, and you must be mistaken. The only rivers that services New Mexico and far West Texas agriculture, are the Rio grande, the redd, The Pecos River and a few other small tributaries.)

@bentonstaffel2471 2 ай бұрын

From Texas also but in what part of their comment did they mention Texas? Or are you confused with the “Texas” Colorado river which has nothing to with this Colorado River?

@thewhiteloaf2175 2 ай бұрын

@@bentonstaffel2471 he edited it without saying that he did.

@Vmaster005 2 ай бұрын

No exactly true we have plenty of water in our reservoirs in The southern Inland Valley. More like Vegas would not exist.

@ryans413 2 ай бұрын

The Hoover dam supplies power to most of those areas without the dam no one would have power

@ernestdrown5631 6 ай бұрын

I'm old ,, I feel like that at night some time

@Ivan-gz5ng 2 ай бұрын

Gotta love water gotta love life

@richardwarfordjr.5622 2 ай бұрын

That's a lot of dam water😂

@gasNmudtv 2 ай бұрын

Will be once we switch from electric to hydrogen fuesl

@ryans413 2 ай бұрын

I like your dam comment it made laugh

@CopingwithGrattitude 2 ай бұрын

Bah dunt dunt! Drum roll on your cute joke😅

@KingCrypn Ай бұрын

Pap used to tell a joke I went to the sea and got sea sick I went to the lake and got lake sick I went to the dam and got Dam sick

@MrGriff305 2 ай бұрын

Looks a lot like the Hoover Dam

@user-ou8rf5tc4s 2 ай бұрын

It should! It was built for the same reason, water storage and hydroelectric power.

@cvdxmndjfxgjb 8 ай бұрын

The shadow of something on the dam looks like Pac man

@jaelynnb8600 2 ай бұрын

They released water on April 25 and 26. Today is April 18. How the hell did we get video from the future?

@user-ou8rf5tc4s 2 ай бұрын

It's the 2023 release that you are looking at. At the moment, there won't be a 2024 release due to damage discovered in those bypass pipes recently. The only water going into the river is the normal flow through the power plants. Since Lake Powell is nearly 50 feet below "normal," there will be no problem handling this year's snow melt.

@PromasterHOF 2 ай бұрын

This is Buc Eees beaver dam

@777Bviews 2 ай бұрын

"Now that's what I call high quality H20." -Bobby Bushay

@paulcondie2520 6 ай бұрын

Serious power right there boys and girls!

@avriljenifersexton912 6 ай бұрын

Oh absolutely no doubt about it

@williamstonesmith7971 5 ай бұрын

@@avriljenifersexton912 - Should have a huge generator built right at that spot -

@rajaramgat9909 2 ай бұрын

अकारण विलाप वक्तव्य

@oalmikee1234 Ай бұрын

Boilermakers dream job.

@JamesFrost74659 2 ай бұрын

Now that's cleaning out the pipes.

@uprailman 3 ай бұрын

gym understanding is they used to re,ease water to help keep the down river in good shape improving the fisheries

@williamhaynes2392 5 ай бұрын

It's a shame these people don't know how to manage water!

@TheMilwaukieDan 5 ай бұрын

Sooooo your the Hydrologist the world is looking for. Your comment is way far off base.

@CorporateU-Tcensored 5 ай бұрын

What the h🔥 do you mean by that? This is managing water...

@philhammond5908 4 ай бұрын

That water is captured in lake mead down stream .

@jeffsaxton716 4 ай бұрын

Tell it to God or Mother Nature. We're just happy the water is finally back.

@user-dh6bj2me5p 3 ай бұрын

Only you know?

@alltimetoopasstravelling 2 ай бұрын

The Colorado River is about 1,450 mile long river, the 5th longest in the United States of America 🇺🇸

@mindbender3379 6 ай бұрын

CA should be building new aqueducts, collectors, transport pipes like crazy.. but too little too late. Been in a drought situation for years; need to figure it out CA!!🤔🤔🤔

@cathyruiz73 5 ай бұрын

Well at least the lakes are full!

@jacobbrassard2776 5 ай бұрын

The Sacramento has more water than the Colorado… we just don’t use most of it

@nubianking4203 4 ай бұрын

Or, just more desalination plants

@johndoyle2296 3 ай бұрын

Send it to the sea, California's solution.

@brokenwrench404 2 ай бұрын

Been saying this for decades. You’d think they would build new reservoirs during the droughts to catch to upcoming record rains during El Niño but they never do 🤦🏻‍♂️

@raymondmerchant988 Жыл бұрын

they were filling up Lake Mead

@ryans413 2 ай бұрын

No they are releasing the water because it got to high on the other side of the dam

@sagarshrestha8357 Ай бұрын

Wind gusting . . . . . . . . . . Water rumbelling. . . . . . . Water roaring. . . . . . . . . Water thundering. . . . Damn!! 🥵

@oddjarb 2 ай бұрын

Those guys were just chillin there

@jepp0711 6 ай бұрын

What! We have a nearly dry pool, so let’s drain more water! Great idea!

@LarryVarner-zq5zd 5 ай бұрын

Really stupid idea. They will be begging for water later.

@TheInfiniteblaze 3 ай бұрын

They dont care. They just want a reason to jack up prices down the line

@michaelspring3915 2 ай бұрын

Get full. WTF. Its so full they had to let some water go.

@michaelspring3915 2 ай бұрын

@@LarryVarner-zq5zd Its a reservoir and it can hold only so much water and its FULL. HELLOW?

@dougberry1011 2 ай бұрын

@@michaelspring3915there isn’t a chance in hell it full.

@compmanio36 9 ай бұрын

"this water will do little to reverse the effects of drought" How you know you're reading propaganda, folks. "Massive amounts of snowfall" but does nothing for drought, even though that's ALWAYS the weather cycle each year in the West.

@Vicus_of_Utrecht 7 ай бұрын

Yup yup.

@gund89123 3 ай бұрын

10 years of draught, one year of good snow and rainfall won’t fix everything. Ground water is depleted. It takes years to fill the ground water.

@briand9754 2 ай бұрын

WaPo propaganda

@inkman234 2 ай бұрын

It's always doom and gloom with these people. one catastrophe after another regardless if it's actually happening.

@brokenwrench404 2 ай бұрын

It’s a big repeating cycle. Drought, heavy rains, flooding, diminishing rainfall for a couple years and then another drought

@user-fd9kq3rc7c 3 күн бұрын

Enjoyed this video. Thanks!

@akealgordari 18 күн бұрын

Where is this drought!? Because here in the MidEast-South it's been raining like crazy. Come get this rain!!! 😫😫😫

@user-ou8rf5tc4s 17 күн бұрын

We'd love to! Your rain is courtesy of the Gulf of Mexico. As weather systems move across the country, they pull moisture from the Gulf, then dump on you all as they work their way east. What moisture we get, here in the southwest, comes in off the Pacific, and usually gets dumped in coastal California, west of the Coast Range mountains and the Sierra Nevada. Rain west of the southwest, north of us and east of us. Dry here in the deserts.

@Carrierdlr1 2 ай бұрын

Awesome power!!

@rickiejohnston4206 5 ай бұрын

I just love America 🇺🇸. I wished every American 🇺🇸 did. 🙏🇺🇸.

@isay207 2 ай бұрын

We do too great neighbors🇨🇦

@pawcusto4767 2 ай бұрын

I love America, just not so much our leaders

@vintageexcellence 2 ай бұрын

What does that have to do with water releasing tests?

@jimparsons9454 2 ай бұрын

Ok?

@Los150 2 ай бұрын

America is great. It’s AMERICANS that are the issue lol

@anubis20049999 19 күн бұрын

Imagine you're somewhere at the bottom of this quiet river, then BOOM! The water's starting to move faster, and a rapid wave 🌊 comes around the corner

@user-ou8rf5tc4s 17 күн бұрын

That used to happen frequently in the Colorado River's canyons until the Glen Canyon Dam was built, back in the 1950s. When they make releases like this, nowadays, the Bureau of Reclamation makes public announcements a couple of weeks ahead of the release and posts notices at all the access locations. The weather prognosticators at nearly all local TV stations in AZ and in southern Nevada, usually start mentioning the releases about a week before they happen. The only place I can think of where you might get caught off guard is at the Phantom Ranch, in the Grand Canyon. There, you would have to be blind, because they not only post a notice of the release, they also include when it is expected to pass by.

@dougalvlogs4125 2 ай бұрын

you forgot to mention the part where the test failed. Meaning if the water level ever gets below a certain point where they have to use this to move water as the only option. everybody below stream is gonna be cut off. TENS of MILLIONS of people

@67838jayson 9 күн бұрын

That’s what happens when you run out of water in the lake , lol.

@Bruddabruce 6 ай бұрын

Don’t tell Greta she’ll freak out

@That_Guy_Says_Hi 2 ай бұрын

Lives rent-free in your head, does she?

@Bruddabruce 2 ай бұрын

@@That_Guy_Says_Hi every time

@rcs3030 2 ай бұрын

HOW DARE YOU !!!!!

@Bruddabruce 2 ай бұрын

@@rcs3030 hahaha literally

@jimparsons9454 2 ай бұрын

It's all fun and games until you find out that experts predict there will not be enough water out west in 30 years. Some say 15. Imagine having to fight your neighbors for a cool glass of water, frightening.

@jameslewis1175 3 ай бұрын

Dam.... that's cool

@zr0dte 9 күн бұрын

Builds dam: "Whys there a mega drought?"

@todmill100 2 ай бұрын

There’s a reason its called a DESERT

@jimparsons9454 2 ай бұрын

People always seem to forget that.

@dustins3748 3 ай бұрын

Theres no mega drought. Most of the US is almost to normal levels of snow pack. Wish news outlets would stop trying to always scare by saying theres always a drought. Statewide, snow levels were at 104% of average, opens new tab for March 4, according to the California Department of Water Resources, with northern region at 111% of normal and the south at 94%

@skipsteel 2 ай бұрын

I would agree but every year I have to fly over the Colorado River basin to get annual training certification. I'm not an expert, but it ain't getting any greener except where people are piping water in. For the last 11 years fyi.

@jimparsons9454 2 ай бұрын

That's annually. You need to look at longer term predictions. The drought has been going on for 20+ years do you think 1 year of good snow and water will make up for 20+ years if loss? Think critically.

@niklasnaper6596 2 ай бұрын

@@jimparsons9454Still no 20 year drought. The reason water levels are low is millions of people living in the desert...

@Vmaster005 2 ай бұрын

2 years of good snow... and yea the drought getting exaggerated. We have not at 10 days with out rain in California. Highest levels of rain I have seen in 20+ years

@storm14k 2 ай бұрын

Damn why does information "scare" you people. A drought isn't just undone by a year of rain. It didn't start with just a short period of lack of rain. But because you need to feel "safe" we need to say there's no mega drought. Why don't y'all go prep in a basement and let everybody else deal with reality.

@gurnoorsinghgill9 Жыл бұрын

They don’t release water for Mexico

@Intrusive_Thought176 Жыл бұрын

Yes

@kkandola9072 10 ай бұрын

We do give water to Mexico… Mexico is a sovereign nation right? Tell your government to make a deal with our government…

@pickleman40 9 ай бұрын

mexico takes every drip of the river, doesnt even reach the ocean anymore

@rannygamer51 8 ай бұрын

@@pickleman40unfortunately the United States too, in California they used the river so much that it doesn't reach the ocean

@BillSmith-fx7xx 2 ай бұрын

@@kkandola9072 Careful . . . the Biden Crime Family will get involved.

@Hj61S827 3 ай бұрын

Fast releases raise water levels into dry river shores, which quickly absorb it. Maybe slow er down a bit and let that water reach the draught areas

@jimparsons9454 2 ай бұрын

It wouldn't matter. This is like one tear drop on a crying babies face. I say move to somewhere that water is guaranteed. It's not looking good out west.

@jamesflake6601 5 ай бұрын

Looks to me like it'll never be full again

@user-ou8rf5tc4s 2 ай бұрын

It may fill up again, but it will take a heck of a lot more than one slightly damp summer and one winters worth of heavy snow in the upper Colorado River basin to do it. This drought has been going on since the late 90s. There is a lot of catching up to do!

@jamesflake6601 2 ай бұрын

@@user-ou8rf5tc4s itll never happen. They'll just do more heavy purges to "bring sandy beached back".

@exrezcnm 5 ай бұрын

They do those releases to mimic the annual flood from snowmelt in the Rockies.

@Charlotteshotshot 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely. Colorado river is in reverse rn

@tjonesauto 2 ай бұрын

I was in Page AZ to see this last year. The water downstream at Horseshoe Bend went from sandy brown with algae along the sides to blue by the evening.

@kevinpatrick5162 5 күн бұрын

It's good to see it actually has water to release.

@sbjennings99 8 ай бұрын

I've Been across the bridge in front of that dam

@shouryatiwari9943 6 ай бұрын

Kudos to you bro.

@AlanMydland-fq2vs 6 ай бұрын

me 2 and millions others😂

@ginogarcia414 6 ай бұрын

@@shouryatiwari9943smell sarcasm in the air 😢😢😂😂

@shouryatiwari9943 6 ай бұрын

@@ginogarcia414 😅

@bradfordthompson8326 5 ай бұрын

Do they use that beautiful powerful water shooting out to first run some inline electric generator turbines ?😊😊😊

@Masood1810 3 ай бұрын

They're Americans. Inefficiency is part of their patriotism.

@gopackgo4036 2 ай бұрын

Nope those are probably bypass tubes. Can’t spin the turbine too fast.

@WTHenry2023 2 ай бұрын

No, those are bypass tubes; however, at most times, the water running through the dam runs massive turbines/generators but here the maximum amount of water was already being run through the 8 massive turbines/generators, creating an enormous 1320 MW of power, so the excess water needed to be diverted to prevent 1. The two spillways from taking on water 2. topping the dam. The dam was almost undermined during floods in the 1983 where enormous amounts of floodwater started carving out the spillway tunnels by eroding the concrete lining of the spillway tunnels and gouging giant holes in the rock around the tunnels.

@WTHenry2023 2 ай бұрын

@@gopackgo4036Yes. the RPM on the turbines is fixed to allow the generators hooked to the turbines to generate AC power at 60 Hz. The generator spins at 3600 rpm to generate 60 Hz power and the turbine spins at some lower multiple and turns the generator at 3600 rpm via gears.

@keller_ 2 ай бұрын

@@Masood1810 these are emergency flow valves in case you gotta drain the dam quickly, thats why they are testing it too, just because water is rare you can't not test them, because what if you need to drain the dam for some reason and they dont work?

@patrigdon4205 Ай бұрын

I absolutely did NOT realize the scale of that thing until I saw the tiny vans on top of where the water is coming out. Unreal. Def need to visit this.

@gregorykulinski2186 14 күн бұрын

I'm very glad, that snowpack slowly getting back in the West.

@redstarrmedia746 5 ай бұрын

Government be like her you get this much water.....any rivers drying up oh that's just climate change

@cherriberri8373 27 күн бұрын

So where do you think they're putting all the water, huh? Just stuffing it in their pockets and walking away? Real smart, got a real genius here folks

@redstarrmedia746 27 күн бұрын

@@cherriberri8373 well you go ahead and except what they preach claiming damn are just built for flood prevention and I'll stick to my own theory as water control cause I know government is not our friend

@IanCdnMerkaba 4 ай бұрын

Ever since they turned up the weather modification, we have disastrous results.

@loriduckworth134 6 ай бұрын

Thats the grand canyon

@terrylong6457 5 ай бұрын

And the idiots in charge busy, not figuring out a solution while dumping the water.

@gund89123 3 ай бұрын

Why would you think that they are idiots ?

@Bill-sp8kb 2 ай бұрын

Show 'em how it done, genius! No? Didn't think so.

@loriduckworth134 6 ай бұрын

My comment keeps getting deleted

@Leonbergerss 2 ай бұрын

first theres a drought now to much water, it always works out

@jimparsons9454 2 ай бұрын

No doesn't work like that. You would need 20+ years of above average snow/rain to be at the level you should be. The chance of that happening is next to nil. You would have a better chance playing PowerBall or MegaMillions.

@mindywilliams1225 Ай бұрын

Amazing how these are built !

@Mautiks 2 ай бұрын

Maybe the drought exists because you blocked the entire river with a huge f***** dam?

@user-ou8rf5tc4s 2 ай бұрын

If the dams were not there, neither would southern California, Las Vegas, and most of Arizona! The water stored by Lakes Mead and Powell is the reason those places have the water to support their populations. The reservoirs below Lake Mead could never store enough water to supply SoCal, much less AZ.

@Mautiks 2 ай бұрын

@@user-ou8rf5tc4s I don’t care about supplying freshwater to hippies and communists. They should learn how to efficiently desalinize saltwater to support their population or maybe stop promoting unfettered migration. Blocking the natural flow of major rivers has consequences. You’re seeing those consequences now. I’m not interested in your excuses.

@MasterArkannor 2 ай бұрын

If the dam was not here, all the precipitation over the decades since construction would have ended up on the ocean. You do not understand how droughts work.

@Mautiks 2 ай бұрын

@@MasterArkannor Yeah, and then since none of that water makes it to the ocean, you wonder why El Niño and other phenomena that affects global climate patterns are radically different or gone completely…

@MasterArkannor 2 ай бұрын

@@Mautiks You just tried a bait and switch. We were talking about drought. You tried to say the dam was restricting the river and worsening the drought.

@kevinhallis442 6 ай бұрын

Powell filling back up… let’s just let it out again. WTF.

@AM-ro9wv 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely breathtaking

@justsayin1900 2 ай бұрын

I came to the comments to see how oblivious some people are. Wasn't disappointed 😂

@simonbowman6206 8 ай бұрын

look at that video with the eye of power being waisted that much power will run a village and its being thrown away

@dylanbrown3869 Жыл бұрын

Good. The lakes should drain it is unnatural to try to live in places not habitable

@watchinglistening 5 ай бұрын

ONE FIFTH OF THE WORLDS POPULATION, 1.6 BILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN ARID AND SEMI ARID (DESERTS) REGION'S!. THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST IS MOSTLY ARID! I GUESS THE PEOPLE AND NATIONS THAT HAVE LIVED IN THOSE REGIONS FOR CENTURIES DON'T POSSESS YOUR WISDOM! I MEAN... I GUESS THEY JUST DON'T REALIZE THEIR LANDS ARE UNINHABITABLE!

@fortmason6987 4 күн бұрын

If there’s one thing water is good for, it’s helping fix drought.

@sheromanysooklal775 15 сағат бұрын

Very Amazing.

@patbonheur 5 ай бұрын

Impressionnant 😮

@The_Gr8Pre10der 20 сағат бұрын

horse shoe bend is about 30 minutes by car away

@michaelnaretto3409 24 күн бұрын

I've been to that dam a few times. I had no idea one could go down there.

@matthewsommerville8911 2 ай бұрын

That initial sound of the dam was intense

@justjames9775 2 ай бұрын

Ignore all of the extra water, we're in a drought! -MSM

@storm14k 2 ай бұрын

Ignore critical thinking and listen to us! -RWM

@johnpeek827 Ай бұрын

If you ever get the chance and you're lucky, you'll see this periodically. Oh yeah, Lake Powell has awesome houseboats for rent. We had one for 2 weeks with 2 of my High School friends who were now in their 30s. I was lucky to have lived in Salt Lake City for 34 years so Lake Powell was always on our weekend destinations. So many absolutely gorgeous State and National Parks to either camp or visit.

@franciscodarquea5591 2 ай бұрын

Se mira una obra monumental Saludos desde Quito Ecuador

@Aldridge2Ben Ай бұрын

I think it also flushes the sediment out from behind the dam. If it gets too high, these valves might not be able to open. This could be catastrophic in the event of a huge rain or snow melt.

@malikmobley5466 Ай бұрын

That water probably taste good at 2am when you thirsty

@arshbhardwaj335 Ай бұрын

When you had too much beer last night

@janetphillips2875 17 күн бұрын

In ARIZONA. Love it there!

@liamwilson7549 2 ай бұрын

The amount of force to make the water do that going out of those pipes in such a volume is insane

@BillyjohnsonJrSr. 3 ай бұрын

Really, thats amazing. Up close and personal looks majestic ❤

@peted5217 Күн бұрын

Glen Canyon Dam is near Paige, Az. Reservation

@garysimon7765 2 ай бұрын

10 seconds of that much water should last one person a lifetime of water

@Vmaster005 2 ай бұрын

Well you about 40 million life's... so how many seconds you think

@essneaks 14 сағат бұрын

My intrusive thoughts are as loud as the water itself "JUMP IN, ITS JUST A BIG JACUZZI" 😳😒

@nathunathu2103 2 ай бұрын

Waheguru ji mehar rakhna 📿📘🌹🌹🍉🥭🍒🍓🍊🍎🍇🥝💕💓💕💓🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹👊💪🖕🙏👏👍🇮🇳🚩🗡️✔️

@ddoherty5956 2 ай бұрын

That jet washing looks good for the river ecology.

@vaibhav2314 Ай бұрын

my kind of ocean thank you space

@Johnny-pp7dx 3 ай бұрын

You sure tell the normals from the upside down people real quick here.

@jimparsons9454 2 ай бұрын

I would say educated to the poorly educated.

@M21assult 2 ай бұрын

I drove past the river in the 25th and WONDERED why it was flowing so GD fast 😂

@cruz1820 Ай бұрын

Espectacular ese reservorio de agua 👏🏻👏🏻

@TEMPLE7D Ай бұрын

Damn! Get it?

@thedouble0_7 2 ай бұрын

Casually flying over this area with the jet in San Andreas

@Mz.ScorpioSexy76 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely Beautiful 💜

@dan273 5 ай бұрын

Mega drought...like a mega pint?

@H_H_____ 2 ай бұрын

All those prayers for more water have now shown up.

@jimparsons9454 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😅😅

@user-ou8rf5tc4s 2 ай бұрын

As the expression goes, dream on. You are expecting one season of normal precipitation to undo the effects of nearly 25 years of below normal precipitation?