Let's talk about important news on the Colorado River....
Belle of the Ranch
Belle of the Ranch
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🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:21.0 | Well, howdy there, internet people people let's bow again watch this video it's important |
| 0:28.9 | today we're going to talk about why we have been talking about water usage in the |
| 0:34.0 | southwestern United States for the last six weeks or so. We have finally hit that point. |
| 0:40.2 | The Bureau of Reclamation has told the States, y'all have 60 days to come up with a plan to cut |
| 0:48.8 | water usage coming out of the Colorado River by 2 to 4 million acre feet by next year. If you don't do it, we're |
| 0:58.9 | going to do it. |
| 1:02.0 | Now Now, what's an acre foot, right? An acre foot is exactly what it sounds like. One acre of land covered one foot deep in water. Another way to say |
| 1:16.5 | that would be it's almost 326,000 gallons of water. |
| 1:24.5 | OK, so to put this in perspective, |
| 1:28.0 | the EPA on their site, they say that the average person uses 82 gallons of water per day at home. |
| 1:37.0 | Times 365 days, that is 29,930 for the purposes of our illustration, 30,000 gallons. |
| 1:47.0 | One acre foot, 326,000 almost, for the purposes of our illustration, 300,000. |
| 1:57.0 | One acre foot is enough water for 10 people for a year. |
| 2:05.0 | The feds want the states to cut 2 to 4 million acre feet of water. 20 to 40 million people. Now that is an |
| 2:21.2 | illustration. Understand it's not all coming from residential usage, all right, but that is to show the scale of what they're asking. |
| 2:30.0 | Another way to look at this is they're asking for a range of 2 to 4 million acre feet. |
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