Arizona’s top water official says he never thought this day would come so soon.
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Federal officials are warning that the West’s escalating water crisis could put some Arizona communities’ “health and safety” at risk, by cutting off their supply of drinking water.
“This is really getting to (be) a health and safety issue… the health and safety of those who want to turn on the tap and have water,” Tom Buschatzke, Arizona’s director of water resources, said in an interview on this weekend’s “Sunday Square Off.”
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Arizona and other Western states have until Friday to respond to an emergency request to postpone their water deliveries from the Colorado River, in order to shore up a rapidly diminishing Lake Powell.
After decades of drought, ?water levels in #LakePowell, the second-largest humanmade reservoir in the #US, have shrunk to its lowest level since it was created more than 50 years ago.
?️surface area changes of the reservoir (March 2018 and March 2022)ℹ️https://t.co/EXcquhzbiK pic.twitter.com/UF1WLxmUD9
— ESA EarthObservation (@ESA_EO) April 11, 2022
If Lake Powell’s levels continue to fall, the letter says, access to drinking water would be cut off for the 7,500 residents of Page, at the southwestern tip of the reservoir, and the neighboring Navajo community of LeChee.
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“I never thought this day would come this quickly,” Buschatzke said. “But I think we always knew that this day was potentially out there. We’re going to have to learn to live with less water,” he said.
The goal is to keep water levels at Lake Powell high enough to support power generation at the lake’s Glen Canyon Dam and future water supplies to Lake Mead.
This animation shows the surface area changes of the reservoir near Bullfrog Marina, approximately 155 km north from Glen Canyon Dam (March 2018 and March 2022).
Dry conditions are unmistakable in the image captured on 18 March 2022? pic.twitter.com/YUjET0eEYt— ESA EarthObservation (@ESA_EO) April 11, 2022
The two reservoirs on the Colorado River provide 40 percent of Arizona’s water supply. But the lake levels have declined precipitously over the last 20 years, owing to a historic megadrought and the effects of human-caused climate change.
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“Our task is to avoid the outcome in which the reservoirs are empty… and it’s getting more difficult,” said Buschatzke, who’s shepherded Arizona water resources for 40 years.
According to a report compiled by @USGS in cooperation with @usbr, #LakePowell’s storage capacity has lost nearly 7% of its potential storage capacity from 1963 to 2018, when the diversion tunnels of Glen Canyon Dam closed and the reservoir began to fill. pic.twitter.com/Dy4chfDXnu
— ESA EarthObservation (@ESA_EO) April 11, 2022
Buschatzke did say the state would respond to the Interior Department’s request to delay water deliveries.
“We will take actions to protect Arizona,” he said. “I just can’t say if it will be the specific action that the secretary proposed, but we will act.” [GOV, 12News]
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Arizona is New California ! lol.. Do not go to Arizona due to water shortages and high temp? Avoid
it better places Texas and be happier?
Uh-huh. I live in Arizona. West Arizona depends on the colorado. Most of us do not, and that includes northern Arizona. The writer might want to do a little history. The southwest went thru the Long Drought. One part was 63 years long and very little rain fell. Next part happened a few years later, over 40 years long. The colorado did not dry up then and the major problem is Kalifornia and decades of refusal to use destalinization plants. Kali is decades behind most 3rd world nations and only now are liberals waking up. Liberalism is nazism. Hitler said the earth is man’s only god.
The real problem is morons and farmers living in the desert and expecting natural resources to be infinite.
The earth is running out of ways to keep you alive.
Back in 2001, Lake Powell was getting below its normal levels. This has been an ongoing problem. Makes me speculate ( in a conspiracy theorist manner ), but what if the D.U.M.B.S are draining water below surface, so elitists can force depopulation, by hoarding water? Also, it stokes the global warming fraud narrative? I know, probably just a far-fetched notion.
Not far fetched, but if it’s true, weird that they would do that and simultaneously ban abortion
You mean we are back to: if its brown flush it down, if its yellow let it mellow and if its gone you can’t flush it down. I guess its back to two holler out houses and rain water barrels.(when and if it rains) Gas prices are putting people back on horses .
Drinking water, huh. Not toilet or bathing water?