Do you know where the Colorado river is, cause it sure doesn't sound like it? Lake Mead was formed by building the Hoover Dam. The level of the lake is determined by the rain and snow levels in the mountains of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The river runs from La Poudre Pass in northern Colorado to the Gulf of California. Any water taken out of the river for irrigation in California happens where the river runs through California, not at Lake Mead. Mead is simply the largest reservoir. For years California took more than the allotted share because the other states either couldn't or wouldn't take their share. Now the other states want that to stop, so water has to come from other sources.
The debate between NoCal and SoCal regarding water is about diverting the surface water on the western side of the Sierra Nevada mountains to SoCal to make up the difference. Over 80 percent of the water in California is used for irrigation, so your claims about the people in San Diego using more than their share is meaningless. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you know where the Colorado river is and how it runs into Lake Mead > and gets distributed to Southern California? The North has Lake Tahoe > and the runoff from the mountains. The south has Death valley and the > Mohave desert. Not much mountain runoff. So they take from Lake Mead > and Lake Tahoe. You should know living in the North they've been > trying for decades to limit the supply to the South until they removed > all the tropical gardens and replaced them with local vegetation > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335584 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
