Height also gives more head pressure.
Yeah.
Dump it on the salt flats. Sell some of it to aquarium keepers. Forty pounds goes for $40.00.
Don’t the snow states need salt for winter roads?
Desalinate seawater to get fresh water, then sell the resultant salt to marine aquarium keepers…
…so they can add it to fresh water to make seawater.
Can-do American know-how.
We could use it in Arkansas for the annual paralyzing two inch snow fall. Icy road maintenance here consists of three guys and a pickup full of sand in each county.
Going back to the OP, here’s the link to the lake’s water level measurements…
Today is at 1055 ft. While water users may be able to stick deeper straws into the lake to keep water flowing, power generation this summer is likely to be constrained. Not great for a region dependent on air conditioning. Where is electricity going to come from when the dams cannot generate?
As a Republican, here is The Plan™. Let the water fall reducing the power available for the hard working people of (checks if it is a Red State. No, Nevada is blue. F them!) Arizona. Then blame Sleepy Joe Biden for his failed infrastructure plan … and covid.
Cities that are located in the middle-to-lower sections of major rivers have been doing “toilet to tap” since time immemorial. It just hasn’t been called that.
Just recently the two power companies in AZ warned that starting next year they may not have enough power generating capacity and we may get brownouts.At the same time Gov Douchy (Q-AZ) is pushing for more people to move here.
If only there were a star nearby that would emit more energy than we could harness. A fella can dream.
It is easier to carry around forty pounds of salt than 150 gallons of salt water.
Dehydrated water is a joke.
Dehydrated sea water is salt.
One result of dropping water levels that hasn’t been mentioned in the thread yet: all the dead bodies that will appear.
Vegas mobsters are already looking for a new location to disappear folks. Who knew new drought conditions would affect their operations?
Vegas mobsters were looking into non-water alternatives decades ago, as the fine documentary Diamonds are Forever (1971) helpfully points out:
We’ve got salt mines, right? That’s where we’ve been getting salt up 'til now.
Let’s start filling them back up again.
Which ever is closer and costs less transportation.
Salt flats, sure. Aquarium keepers don’t want that salt if it contains industrial and agricultural run-off products.
Yes, and it’s a large market. There are mountains of salt kept in the snow areas and they can run out in heavy winters. However, in some areas the content of that salt may be undesirable if there contaminants in it.
Plus, the cost of transporting it from dry/thirsty areas to wet/snowy areas - would be another line item cost to desal.