Climate change, sea levels rising

[austinRecurve]

Do the Caballo River Dam and Elephant Butte Dam not have anything to do with levels?

A quote from the wikipedia entry for the Elephant Butte Dam:

"The construction of the dam has reduced the flow of the Rio Grande to a small stream for most of the year, with water being released only during the summer irrigation season or during times of exceptionally heavy snow melt.

[flywise]

This is lake amistad… I am one mile west of the 277 highway bridge…

Thats terrible

[austinRecurve]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Project

Negative impacts
Even before the Rio Grande Project, the waters of the Rio Grande were already overtaxed by human development in the region. At the end of the 19th century, there were some 925 diversions of the river in the state of Colorado alone. In 1896, it was affirmed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) that the river's flow was decreasing by 200,000 acre-feet (250,000,000 m3) annually.[dubious – discuss] The river has run dry many times since the 1950s at Big Bend National Park. At El Paso, Texas, the river is non-existent for much of the year. Tributaries of the river, both on the Mexican and American sides, have been diverted heavily for irrigation. The Rio Grande is said to be "one of the most stressed river basins in the world".[18] In 2001, the river failed to reach the Gulf of Mexico but instead ended 500 feet (150 m) from the shore behind a sandbar, "not with a roar but with a whimper in the sand".[19]


The river forms the border of the USA (foreground) and Mexico (background). However, the diminished flow, evident in the photo, has made it easier for illegal immigrants to cross the border.
The river's decreasing flow has posed problems for international security. In the past, the river was wide, deep and fast-flowing in its section through Texas, where it forms a large section of the Mexico–United States border. Illegal immigrants once had to swim across the river at the border, but with the river so low immigrants need only wade across for most of the year. Other than extensive diversions, exotic introduced, fast-growing and water-consuming plants, such as water hyacinth and hydrilla, are also leading to reduced flows. The United States government has recently attempted to slow or stop the progress of these weeds by introducing insects and fish that feed on the invasive plants.[19]

[DapperDan]

Same people spewing false crap are also the same people buying multi million dollar beach front mansions.


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[PondPopper]

Just wait until Travis county sucks Lake Travis dry and it's going to happen eventually..
Total chaos won't even begin to describe that area when it does.

[Dusty Britches]

1937 vs 2019

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Thank you! Saved me from posting that!

And if sea levels are rising, why is the Rio Grande, that dumps into the sea also rising?

I mean I'm no expert, but water flows to the lowest point ...

[WItoTX]

Rio grande is in serious trouble… link below shows gauges to the water sheds that drain into the river… the Rio Conchos on the Mexican side is looking just as sparse as the rio grande…. Going to be some hard times…

Lake Amistad is under 30% of capacity and Falcon Lake is 16% of capacity

https://www.ibwc.gov/wad/flowdata.htm

It's not just the Rio Grande, and the problem exists outside Texas. The Colorado River doesn't even flow to the Gulf of California anymore. It just ends in the riverbed. The Colorado is drying up itself, and its obvious when looking at the Hoover Dam how low water flow has become.

The desert southwest is a rough climate.