As a Canadian, I get nervous when I see the US running out.
You have nearly 10 times the freshwater per capita compared to the US. How selfish /s.
Let's thinks of a casus belli. How about something like: "Trillions of gallons of fresh water flow uselessly into the frozen northern seas every year due to Canadian inaction. We are stepping in to build the infrastructure needed to save that water and feed the continent. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power...
> The Corps of Engineers studied this project in the 1950s and 1960s, but no official proposal was ever developed.
Both ideas are equally as likely to be implemented.
Co-operation from our northern neighbor would be appreciated. But, perhaps, not required, given a thirst great enough.
Legitimate question: I can understand that record-low snowpack would cause less water to flow into the lake, but the "erasure" of the snow pack by heat is just melting that would be captured in the lake, right? So if the record-low snowpack had been followed by record cold, would we have even less water in the lake?
For data, check out the second visualization here:
https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref/support/states/CO/produ...
There's no snowpack left, earlier in the season, because there's way less snow, and it's being consumed faster.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/16/science/super-el-nino-odds-for...
Record cold would lead to more water. It would melt out fast later and since the soil was already recharged it would flow to rivers.
Worth noting this is generally glacier free landscape so the snow melts fully each year.
Most of them are catalogued in the outstanding Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner - an excellent book with an outstanding audiobook too.
https://www.amazon.com/Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing...
toomuchtodo•37m ago
https://coloradoriverscience.org/Agricultural_water_use