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current.com — Lake Mead, which supplies most of the water to the Southwest of the U.S., is in danger of trying up. During the last 7 years the water level at the lake decreased by almost 50 per sent, threatening to cut the water supply for 25 million people in the U.S. and Mexico. Documentary about water scarcity becoming the world next big environmental crisis.

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  • damirzg, on 09/15/2008, -4/+35It's really more about North America Without Water...
  • Rudigity, on 09/15/2008, -4/+31per sent
  • Mothrog, on 09/16/2008, -3/+24Pretty stupid documentary. This is hardly the world without water. This is the stupid southwest without water. Newsflash: you can't continually increase the population of a desert area, cover that desert area with ***** grass that has to be constantly watered, and have it be sustainable. Move the ***** out of the desert.
  • lazycat, on 09/15/2008, -1/+22Part 1 of the documentary: http://current.com/items/89290445_world_without_wa ...
  • scoottie, on 09/16/2008, -1/+16if she only had some water to cool off
  • Devotia, on 09/16/2008, -2/+13Dear Southwest: We found your water. It's safe with us. Please come get it as soon as you can, we're getting really sick of it.

    Love, Illinois.
  • MacBookForMe, on 09/15/2008, -5/+16I don't need any more statistical evidence about climate changes...that was too convincing!
  • woojoo, on 09/16/2008, -4/+13That girl is hot.
  • ekSD, on 09/16/2008, -2/+10Water will be the oil of the future.

    It's been shaping Middle Eastern politics for thirty years now. Israel has swimming pools; Palestine has barely enough water for their crops.

    I recommend looking up articles on the way Turkey controls the flow of water from its rivers into the Middle East. I'm willing to guarantee that it will become the superpower of the Middle Eastern states very soon, especially with its power over rivers and how much they want to allow through.
  • lazycat, on 09/15/2008, -0/+8My mistake.. I saw it right after I hit the button. It would be actually nice to have an option to edit submissions for few minutes after posting.
  • compgeek, on 09/16/2008, -2/+8Great find. This really just goes to show you how much things need to be done to conserve water. it was rather surprising seeing the water drop in lake Mead and it's only been 7 years. imagine at this rate in 10-15 years there will be no more lake simply a dry valley
  • largesandwich, on 09/16/2008, -1/+7Buried for the absurdity of the title.
  • BenKenobi88, on 09/16/2008, -0/+5If you're going to dehydrate to death, I'm sure you could scrape some change off the ground and bus it to civilization.
  • Tyrghast, on 09/16/2008, -2/+6Solution: Brew as much alcohol while you can, then drink yourself silly after the water is gone.
  • stonebear, on 09/15/2008, -0/+4The US Southwest, really, and the Mexican Northwest. Las Vegas is building desalinization plants along the California coast, with the intent of swapping the product for California's Colorado River water credits. The plan remains dubious, however, as it's still not clear how the price of the desalinated water will be regulated, if at all. In the current climate of deregulation in California, I see it turning out well only for Las Vegas.
  • mstrebe, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4Fake crisis. As soon as water costs 4x what it costs now in California (which is currently 18 cents per acre-foot) they'll just plop nuclear desalinators along the coast and the cities will stop draining the Colorado. This is actually one of the least expensive problems to solve.
  • Osirus1156, on 09/16/2008, -4/+8That reporter girl was way hot.
  • TheMachine1, on 09/16/2008, -2/+6Water you irrigate the desert with likely significantly contributes to global warming. If the water merely stayed in the Colorado river or flowed to the ocean it would have a relatively fixed solar evaporation surface. Pumping it all across the South West a larger amount of it will get evaporated in the same time interval.

    Water vapor is much weaker global warming agent compared to CO2 but its in much higher concentration in the air then chemicals like CO2.

    Granted its a complex multi-variable problem. Plants (lawn grass ,trees, crops) will sequester some carbon but plants use water very inefficiently and most the water a plant takes up from the roots will be evaporated in the leaves to drive the pumping process(example of non-intelligent design in nature). And even more water during irrigation that the plant never takes up will be evaporated.

    Anyway if your landscape is depending on a lot water that did not fall on that same region via natural rain fall you might very well be adding to global warming.
  • inactive, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4Dry Land is not a myth. I've seen it!!!
  • willwooten, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3Agreed.
  • facepalmjpg, on 09/16/2008, -2/+5Becuase a lake in the desert is drying up, the world is in danger of running out of water?
  • Rudigity, on 09/16/2008, -1/+4I just think typos are funny. did not mean it as anything rude
  • donjacko, on 09/15/2008, -2/+5captain obvious strikes again!
  • voodoochild461, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Good thing the polar ice caps are melting!
  • willwooten, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2One thing to keep in mind about Lake Mead drying up... Before the 1930s, there was no Leak Mead. It'd be one thing if natural lakes like the Great Lakes were drying up. But Lake Mead is a manmade reservoir. And saying that its low levels are a symptom of man's irresponsibility fails to take into account that the lake itself is manmade. It's not a natural lake, and it's not going to react to climate cycles like a natural lake would.
  • willwooten, on 09/16/2008, -2/+4LOL. Please, don't vote. We don't need the opinions of people like you.
  • nitroburn, on 09/16/2008, -1/+3Not a very convincing example towards a long term climate change as this is a man made lake and sometimes things don't go as predicted. (I'm not saying there is no climate change, just speaking to this one example)

    But having taken a helicopter tour over the Grand Canyon and Lake Mead recently, I saw that it seemed much lower then it used to be. Kind of suck to have not seen it in its former glory. Odd to see boat ramps launching into nothing.
  • Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -1/+3I love it when people look like AN idiot while calling someone else an idiot.
  • tkotam, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Amazing. Last time I was at Lake Mead was 6 years ago and it was a lot more beautiful than it is now. The lake was really a lake. Sad situation.. :-(
  • cosmotic, on 09/16/2008, -1/+3I wasn't suggesting anything.

    Those people who live there now (or their parents/grandparents) made a decision to live in a place were fundamental requirements for living were essentially imported.

    People are STILL moving there, even in light of a water shortage. I'm not complaining that they made what to me seems like a bad, illogical decision. I'm only saying I won't lend my ear when they complain that a risk they took turns out not to be in their favor.

    It's like to Alaska and then complaining about the cold -- completely ridiculous.

    Regarding YOUR suggestion: LA is obviously a stupid place, they import their water too. Any costs associated with moving people back to where water exists isn't the fault of the person who builds the new houses, its the fault of the people who decided to live in a barren wasteland to begin with. Regarding disease, crime and schools, I have no idea what you're talking about and don't appreciate you putting words in my mouth.
  • co79, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Reminds me of the new Mark Trail comic.
  • linagee, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Expect water to be $20 a gallon before gas is. Use less water and prove me wrong!
  • bunk3rk1ng, on 09/16/2008, -1/+3That lake is trying too hard.
  • DestroyFascism, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2USA in American means Center of the universe
    China in Chinese means the same thing..
  • cosmotic, on 09/16/2008, -1/+3Care to enlighten?
  • scoottie, on 09/16/2008, -2/+3but he didnt take out the nuclear powered ruler that measures by the billionth of a nanometer to see that the water level has dropped .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 of a nanometer.
  • Aaronraw, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1And everyone laughed when I made my own Fremen Thumper! I will ride Shai Hulud while you wallow in the dust! Mwaa hahahahaa...
  • adragontattoo, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1Uh wasnt there already a documentary on a world without water?

    Im pretty sure it was called Tankgirl.
  • anonymiau, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1So that means everyone can come live with you?
  • stonecircle, on 06/11/2009, -0/+1T Boone Pickens has acquired land overlying the Ogallala aquifer and wants to pump and sell as much as 200,000 acre-feet of groundwater annually to one of Texas’ metropolitan centers. Pickens has been acquiring acreage overlying the Ogallala aquifer with hopes that he could pump and sell the as much as 200,000 AFY of water to one of the state’s metropolitan centers – El Paso, Lubbock, San Antonio, or Dallas-Fort Worth. Ogallala is already severely depleted. The West Texas farmers rely on the aquifer for water. The aquifer’s minimal recharge rate of less then one AFY means that its users are mining fossil water that will not be replenished.
  • stonebear, on 09/16/2008, -1/+2Maybe not as glad as you think; Canada was recently forced to do it by a WTO court after refusing for several years. Because of NAFTA, the US will end up with both Canada's water and oil. All at a tidy profit for the richest Canadian and US corporations, of course.
  • scoottie, on 09/16/2008, -1/+2better get those plastic water bottles ready
  • ligyron, on 09/16/2008, -3/+4We live by the bay. My uncle is 80 and he's lived here his entire life as a fisherman. He says the water level is the same as it always was
  • IceX, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1Proper drainage systems in areas which get plenty of rain should be done
  • nickert0n, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1He's right
    Zhong Guo = Mandarin for China

    Literally translates to = Center Nation
  • willwooten, on 09/16/2008, -1/+2You mean a dry valley like the one that was there before we dammed it up in the 1930s to artificially create Lake Mead, killing or displacing tons of desert life in the process? That kind of a dry valley?
  • whitepa, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1Can't knock him for 'trying'.
  • otayyo, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1Am I the only person who couldn't stand the way the journo spoke? Not worth the over seven minutes spent watching. Buried.
  • hitokiri808, on 09/16/2008, -1/+2If I recall, they purposely increased the flow of water downstream of the dam to remove built up sediment and to restore some of the ecosystem damaged from being downstream of the dam. Also, the water level raised a little bit last year. We'll have to see how this winter affects the water level.
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