[MediocreButArrogant]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

BTW: Yuma, AZ, is not very far from the Sea of Cortés, aka: Gulf of California.

If some of you yoyos would bother to look it up, you'd know that the desalination plant in Yuma, AZ processes agricultural runoff, not seawater.

[bayview6]

Originally Posted by MediocreButArrogant

If some of you yoyos would bother to look it up, you'd know that the desalination plant in Yuma, AZ processes agricultural runoff, not seawater.

Every yoyo knows that. What's your point?

[bayview6]

Originally Posted by olecapt

Getting desperate are you? There is a reverse osmosis plant that works in Avalon on Catalina as well...but never used unless desperate. They plumbed the whole town to use sea water toilets to avoid having to RO.

Face it. A marginal brackish water installation of small size hardly proves your point.

Not desperate at all. Its well established that de-salination technology works and is practical.

If LV gets thirsty enough, the technology is there to supply it with water.

[BBMW]

One of the problems is Nevada's very small allocation of Lake Mead water. CA gets a huge %.

I would think, with your senator being the boss of the senate, he could push though a larger allocation.

[007 license to sell]

Hey some great news for Lake Mead, this is important news since this is the lake that Las Vegas gets it's drinking water from.
Wet year to boost level of Lake Mead

Lake Mead is expected to rise almost 20 feet over the next 10 months, thanks to the wettest year in more than a decade on the drought-ravaged Colorado River.

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by bayview6

Not desperate at all. Its well established that de-salination technology works and is practical.

If LV gets thirsty enough, the technology is there to supply it with water.

Yuma is interesting in one way. They just finished a very successful trial run over the last year where they successfully processed 30,000AF of water. Plant ran almost perfectly.

They are however shutting it down again. No one appears willing to pay over $400 per AF for Colorado River water delivered at Lake Mead.

So SNWA wants water bad...but not at over $400 per AF.

[bayview6]

Originally Posted by olecapt

Yuma is interesting in one way. They just finished a very successful trial run over the last year where they successfully processed 30,000AF of water. Plant ran almost perfectly.

They are however shutting it down again. No one appears willing to pay over $400 per AF for Colorado River water delivered at Lake Mead.

So SNWA wants water bad...but not at over $400 per AF.

At least not right now. Last winter was a super-good year for the Rockies snow wise but the long range forecast is for global warming to produce more droughts in that region.

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by bayview6

At least not right now. Last winter was a super-good year for the Rockies snow wise but the long range forecast is for global warming to produce more droughts in that region.

The next bad news step for SNWA is the upstate pipeline. After that we see...that would be about 2030 or so.

The difficult part about all this is that it is political...and has a huge set of variables that have not yet happened.

There are for instance huge rights among the upper states and the indians that could be exercised...that would cut the down stream flow by potentially catatstrophic amounts.

Or perhaps one of the indian tribes sells their rights to Las Vegas or LA giving them a priority right to a million acre feet...then what?

The Indian rights are particularly interesting in that they are not regulatable by the states.

I would think these variable futures hold more good than ill for LV. The great advantage is that it is an occupied city, strategically up stream and actually has a relatively small need. I expect it will get taken care of as an afterthought in the overall scheme of things.

[jfkIII]

Originally Posted by bayview6

Every yoyo knows that. What's your point?

And some yo-yo's are wound very tightly!

[bayview6]

Originally Posted by jfkIII

And some yo-yo's are wound very tightly!

From one tightly wound yo-yo to another, what's your point?