• by cute_boi on 6/2/2025, 11:41:17 PM

    They should start to ban water usage to grow Alfalfa. It consumes so much water and is very inefficient.

  • by gtani on 6/3/2025, 5:16:22 AM

    This is a complex set of constraints, and people in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado etc have different perspectives on this. In my mind Lakes Powell/ Mead running low is somehow congruent to the /ZB Treasury futures contract (30 year) running lower, somehow there's a common economic invariant lurking in there.

    The somewhat brighter bullet points: Northern California reservoirs are doing prety well, and the Bureau of Reclamatn can again kick the can by draining Flaming Gorge but i think this only works every few years:

    https://graphs.water-data.com/flaminggorge/

    https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain

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    weekly watch, showing, surprisingly, nontrivial drought in Florida but drought did visibly abate in Nebraska: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx

  • by davidklemke on 6/2/2025, 11:56:24 PM

    Climate Town did a great video breaking down where a lot of this ends up, worth the watch if you want some more detailed background on the agreements in place that are leading to this happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XusyNT_k-1c

  • by Arnt on 6/2/2025, 9:09:35 PM

    https://archive.is/dXr2K

    Tldr: "the region lost 27.8 million acre-feet of groundwater since 2003, roughly the same volume as the total capacity of Lake Mead — the nation’s largest reservoir — and that the decline accelerated rapidly over the past decade. These groundwater losses accounted for more than twice the amount taken out of reservoirs in the region during that time."

  • by niobe on 6/2/2025, 11:24:13 PM

    paywalled