The lake that feeds Hoover Dam is at its lowest point since it was built in the 1940s.What to expect if things gets to the point of no return?
OK since you faggots don't want to discuss I have some thoughts.It will most likely cause higher electricity prices for the commoner which on top of high europoor-levels prices for gasoline will be extremely difficult for the plebs who are already at a breaking point. Food prices may also go up because it will affect certain industries that does not have the capacity to "oil the cogs" so to speak.. which means the export industry will probably get to keep going until everything dries up.Water rationing for the plebs is an obvious first step at acknowledging the problem, but this will obviously have no effect at the overall consumption, just annoy regular people.Societal upheaval like nothing the US has ever seen may erupt, protests, demonstrations and a US government that replies with the only language that it knows causing things to escalate.That dam has the potential to topple the US like nothing else and it would in a way be poetic justice if this was the way the US of A came to an end.
>>536379745>Acre-FeetWhat a retardetd unit that isCa someone transkate this to a useful unit
>>536381037This is a great unit that should be used in this case. The surface area of the lake is 160,000 acres. Loss of 1 foot of depth corresponds to the loss of 160,000 acre-feet. Obviously the shoreline isn't a sheer cliff, so each loss of a foot of depth will decrease the perimeter of the lake by a bit. Still, with this unit, I can imagine standing at the shore 26 years ago then travel to the present and imagine the water level being 100 feet lower.
>>536381037Take a geology course, (specifically) in groundwater. Or, an agriculture / water resources course
>>536379745It actually be a national security problem if Lake Mead went into 'dead pool' status (the point at which the water level falls below the power-generating turbines at the base of Hoover dam). It would take around 1.5 megawatts of instantaneous power generation offline, out of the 30 megawatts that California consumes at a given moment. It would probably mean weeks of rolling blackouts and a need to readjust load transmissions across the grid. Which would be annoying, but the bigger problem is that the Colorado River would dry out below that point. No more power generation for Parker Dam either. Arizona authorities might try to stop the river at Lake Havasu to prevent Havasu from vanishing right away, but it would gradually dry out anyhow without new river water.Agriculture would take a hit throughout the region, and some smaller cities in the area might depopulate. That's why the US government will not let that happen. The feds will sacrifice all of the upstream lakes (such as Powell) to keep Mead above the dead pool line.
>>536381037Its an agricultural unit, they measure fields in acres and water on the fields in feet. 10 acre farm where each field needs 2 feet of water a yeard -> need to reserve 20 acre feet of water. Equivelent would be hectare meters here
