Hot Summer on it's way and the Drought is here to stay

From: Lance (Water Resources Research)
Date: 28 Apr 2003
Time: 23:10:13
Remote Name: 66.82.48.1

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Well today we have spent considerable time studying the lakes of AZ and NV and how they will effect the situation at large with regards to water wars between CA, NV and AZ. Things are not pretty. Ground water is an issue and aquifers underground are getting depleted as Golfers continue to walk the greens and home owners still plant lawns in the middle of the desert and Home Developers create water features for their neighborhoods to attract buyers. But hey wait a minute is the serious nature of this getting through yet? AZ Governor and Las Vegas Mayor are working hard for a serious drought mitigation plan. As the public has not yet gone into maximum defense mode. La Nina is the opposite of El Nino and here we go into a httoer than usual summer. This effects everyone, even us. Flagstaff is down in annual rainfall by 52% seems it only rains when the President Visits, Please come back soon say the locals. Tucson is down 57% in annual rain fall while Payson is up since El Nino was fair to the area and that water flows into Roosevelt Dam and Lake, but unfortunately that lake is down below it's 29% level. Scared yet? We are. Lake Mead on the Colorado River? just aove half full 63%. Not good going into a La Nina year. 59 new housing tracts being built in Vegas area. Seven Hills, Anthem, N. Las Vegas, Summerlin, Mountain View and Henderson. Just about everywhere but building moratorium Boulder City. Well we are concerned about the fire risk like others and those who had to battle the big ones last year. http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/fire . Northern AZ is almost all still in severe drought, with wilted pine trees. Yuma and the rest of the NW Arizona are are in Extreme Drought as well. North of PHX it is bad to worse and PHX and Tucson are moderate but those summers in PHX, a whopping 105-116 degrees and night 100 degrees with no chance of under 90. Water evaporates fast and there is a whole lot less of it. Even the SBA is offering loans under 1.5 million to small businesses which will be continually devistated by drought. We are not making this up. God I wish I were.

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