Water - real truth

[314joey]

Joey,

If you were to move here you would be a Havasu Boater.......we can tell ........Havasu water levels stay fine, as we are fed from Mead and need to have no more than a 2-3' difference to keep our little dam producing the electricity that is clearly needed.

Even if you moved to Vegas cuz we know you love it there all the cool folks boat on Havasu so you'd likely be making the 2 hour drive for some "Real Boating"...............which brings us back to why you won't be leaving FL cuz right now you just go out your back door

Looks like you guys will be relegated to 3 or 4 trips a year to Vegas for some serious fun and do your boating in the Atlantic


PS............if we would just stop sending some large percentage of the water in the Colorado river to Mexico (by treaty) we'd have plenty of water for the western states............but that would be a political statement and I just won't do that here

Paul, I'm a real estate guy, that's what I did for a living before the 2008 crash, lucky I sold my company in 2006, no, I'm not that smart, just got lucky and sold at the right time, anyway, I know there's a great deals in the Vegas area and have been half ass looking, you are correct we would boat on Havasu, but if there's not going to be water to boat or my domestic water bill is $300 a month I'll think twice about it, that's what is prompting the inquiry.................btw, thanks everybody.

And I agree, the gubment is a mess and you don't want to get me going, hotboat would put both of us on double secret probation.

[HypNautic]

Our water bill stays around $80-90. We have desert landscaping in the front and about 1100 sqft of grass in the backyard. 5 people in the house.
Last article I read said Vegas would run out of water no less than 7 years after Mead could not pump out water to Ca.

[314joey]

I can't believe the amount of water that's pumped out West, don't they know the place is a desert.

[HolyMoly]

I can't believe the amount of water that's pumped out West, don't they know the place is a desert.

The residential use of water is very small compared to agriculture. People can get all the drought friendly plants they want, but even if all residential cut their usage in half, it wouldn't make much difference.

True, CA is arid/desert. But, the central valley is some of the best farming land in the world. At one time, it was not a desert and the central valley wash very lush, and is why it is so fertile. Agriculture is CA's largest industry by far.

As far as water to boat on, the Big Blue is always an option. But, the rest of the water ways are threatened more by regulatory limitations to boating, than the actual lack of water to boat on.

Also, you will hear things like "No body contact" and people seem to think that is required for drinking water resevoirs to keep it clean. It has NOTHING to do with keeping the water clean, but they don't mind you thinking that it does....makes it sound like you couldn't win a legal fight. But the reality, "No body contact" has to do with insurance and liability. An example I like to give is Irvine lake (where they often have a v-drive regatta) and everyone is told "No body contact". But, there is a waterski and wake board club that operates at that lake....wtf? OH...they have their own insurance.

Also, the water districts are having major failures of pipes that are 100+ years old, and they have now had a loss of water thru breakage that is equivalent to what the residential sector uses in a year (In Los Angeles).

Desalination is the future. We won't run out of water in CA.

I don't have a water bill...I'm on a well. And, I'm in no danger of my well drying up because a new reservoir (Diamond Valley - one of So Cal's largest reservoirs) is perking into my aquifer. There is a natural spring right next to my house, and the park down the street constantly has problems with ground water accumulating. I have neighbors a couple miles away whose wells did dry up, and there was a lawsuit against the water district as it is a direct result of the reservoir pulling from their aquifer, so they have a water station that the residents get free water at.