02-06-2014, 10:35 PM
Never going to happen. Aside from the other issues, if you look at the Colorado river compact, the river system is split between Northern and Southern states. Once water leaves Powell it leaves the northern states zone and enters southern. Once here it can never be shipped back up river and California gets 60% of it. Nevada only gets 4% of the water and we can't even get anyone to agree to a slightly higher share let alone draining a lake.
Throw in the environmentalists are lobbying to dump water from Mead down steam to flood and "revitalize" the Mexican delta in the Pacific Ocean, and the Northern states would be insane to give up control.
The only thing that will refill Powell & Mead is the earthquake that drops S. California into the ocean.
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Throw in the environmentalists are lobbying to dump water from Mead down steam to flood and "revitalize" the Mexican delta in the Pacific Ocean, and the Northern states would be insane to give up control.
The only thing that will refill Powell & Mead is the earthquake that drops S. California into the ocean.
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