A suppression order on the identity of Adelaide Remand Center’s general manager, who is charged with theft, has now been lifted.
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Brenton Williams is accused of stealing more than $100,000 of prisoners’ money
A suppression order on his identity has been lifted today
The 47-year-old was arrested last week in relation to theft
Brenton Williams is accused of stealing more than $100,000 of prisoners’ money.
The offense was allegedly committed between April 27 and July 27 this year.
The 47-year-old was arrested last week and charged with an aggravated count of dishonestly taking property without consent.
His identity was suppressed by the Adelaide Magistrates Court “in the interests of the administration of justice”.
The Adelaide Remand Center general manager is accused of stealing more than $100,000 of prisoner’s cash. (ABC News: Alina Eaton)
That suppression order was lifted today, after the police prosecutor confirmed she did not want to pursue it.
The Department for Correctional Services says it will launch an independent investigation into theft.
“The department’s main priorities are the welfare of employees at the Adelaide Remand Center and the person who is currently before the courts,” a departmental spokeswoman said last week.
Serco, the private company that runs prisons in Adelaide’s CBD, said it would also be working with police.
Williams did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody, with the case scheduled to return to court in October.
Corrections Minister Joe Szakacs said the allegations are deeply concerning.
“It is incredibly disappointing to be informed of these serious allegations relating to the senior Serco employee at the privately run Adelaide Remand Centre,” said Mr Szakacs.
“These are serious allegations, which I’m deeply concerned about.
“I want answers, and a full review is being undertaken by DCS to investigate this matter.
“As the matter is now before the courts, the state government cannot make any further comment.”
The Chinese military began live ammunition drills near Taiwan on Thursday in a days-long apparent show of force after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-governing island.
Latest: Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense said it activated its defense systems after China’s military launched multiple ballistic missiles into Taipei’s northeast and southwest waters. “We condemn such irrational action that has jeopardized regional peace,” the ministry said.
China’s military said earlier it had conducted “long-range armed live fire precision missile strikes” in the eastern region of the Taiwan Strait, as its state media described the exercises as a “joint blockade, sea target assault, strike on ground targets, and airspace control.”
Meanwhile, Taiwan’s Maritime Port Bureau reported that the Chinese military had added a seventh zone for its exercise encircling the self-governing island.
Why it matters: The zones the Chinese military outlined for the drills encircle Taiwan and some areas cross into territorial waters claimed by the island, the New York Times notes, raising alarm about the potential for dangerous accidents or miscalculation.
The Chinese military warned boats and plans to avoid the areas from Thursday through Sunday for the drills, which the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense said violate Taipei’s sovereignty and greater amount “to a blockade of Taiwan’s air and sea space.”
The planned exercises “unilaterally undermine regional peace and stability,” the ministry said in a statement Wednesday. “This move will not help China’s international image and will hurt people on both sides of the strait.”
The current tensions echo the 1996 cross-strait crisis.
What they’re saying: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters from the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Cambodia on Wednesday that Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was a “complete farce.”
He said the “irreversible historical trend of Taiwan’s return to the motherland cannot be changed” and those “who offend China will surely be punished.”
Catch-up quick: The Chinese government announced the exercises as Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday for an overnight visit that angered Beijing, which had warned of “serious consequences” in the days leading up to the trip.
Pelosi, the most senior US lawmaker to visit the island since 1997, made the trip despite President Biden saying publicly that the US military felt it was “not a good idea right now.”
“Now more than ever America’s solidarity with Taiwan is crucial,” Pelosi said early Wednesday local time as she met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen.
Despite the heightened tensions, many in Taipei expressed appreciation for Pelosi’s support, Axios’ Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian reports from Taiwan. Tsai said Wednesday that Taiwan will never back down amid heightened security threats.
Flash back: China, angered over a visit to the US by then-Tawainese President Lee Teng-hui, conducted missile tests in 1996, with missiles landing in waters off Taiwan and one flying almost directly over the capital, Taipei, Allen-Ebrahimian writes.
The US, meanwhile, sent two aircraft carrier groups through the Taiwan Strait.
Go deeper… In photos: China’s military drills encircle Taiwan
Editor’s note: This article has been updated with new details throughout.
Phil Gould has tipped Manly to put the split in the dressing room aside and roll the Eels to get back into final contention and end a horror fortnight for the club.
Speaking on Wide World of Sports’ Six Tackles with Gus podcast, Gould said both sides had plenty to prove, with the Eels putting in a dismal second half performance against 12 men in their win over the Panthers, while an undermanned Sea Eagles line-up were no match for the Roosters after plumbing the depths of their roster due to the pride jersey boycott by the ‘Manly Seven’.
The Friday night match-up between the traditional rivals comes at a pivotal time for both clubs, with the Eels pulling within reach of a top four berth and Manly needing to win at least four of their last five games to make the finals.
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To make things more interesting, the Eels are without their most dominant player, injured halfback Mitchell Moses, with coach Brad Arthur’s son Jake getting another crack at a starting berth just weeks after he was booed by his home fans.
While many have already written off the Sea Eagles due to the disharmony within their ranks, Gould said there was no coach better than Des Hasler to calm the storm and get the Sea Eagles back on track.
Martin Taupau talks to Reuben Garrick during the Sea Eagles’ round 20 against the Roosters. (Getty)
“It’ll be a big test for both these teams,” Gould said. “Firstly for Manly, bringing these players back in that stood down last week, and whatever disharmony that has caused or dissension, but we don’t know, we’re not on the inside.
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“That’s a man management job for Des Hasler and there’s no one better to handle that.”
Gould added that the Sea Eagles’ performance against the Roosters “was very meritorious” considering the circumstances.
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“The spirit with which they played was tremendous,” Gould said.
“I’m going back Des Hasler. I’m going Manly.”
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Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi has labeled comments made by former prime minister Paul Keating about Adam Bandt as “disgusting” and “disappointing”.
Mr Keating dubbed Mr Bandt a “bounder” and a “distorter of political truth” after the Greens leader said Labor is a “Neoliberal” party during a National Press Club address on Wednesday.
Senator Faruqi came to the defense of her leader and supported his comments about the characterization that Labor has become more “neoliberal” over time.
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“I think the attacks on Adam’s character like this are frankly pretty disgusting and disappointing,” she told the ABC on Thursday.
“There is no doubt that over the last three or four decades Labor have adopted neoliberalism.”
Mr Keating ridiculed Mr Bandt’s assertions, pointing to a range of “mammoth changes”, including Medicare and compulsory superannuation, enacted under Labor.
“How could any reasonable person describe the universality of Medicare as an exercise in conservative neoliberalism,” Mr Keating told Nine newspapers.
“Or providing the whole Australian community, every working person, with mandated capital savings leading to substantial superannuation assets and retirement incomes.
“How could any reasonable person describe these mammoth changes as ‘neoliberalism’, a word associated with the likes of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
“And more than that, the world’s leading system of minimum award rates of pay, a safety net superintended by the Fair Work Commission – a Keating government creation. Again, hardly an exercise in neoliberalism.
“But Bandt is a bounder and a distorter of political truth.”
Mr Bandt confirmed his party’s support of the Climate Change Bill – which enshrines its emissions reduction target of 43 per cent by 2030 and net zero by 2050 into law – during the National Press Club address.
However, he said the Greens would still challenge the government to end fossil fuel production.
“To be crystal clear, the Greens have improved a weak climate bill,” Mr Bandt said during on Wednesday afternoon.
The Greens had initially threatened to block the bill over the “weak” 43 per cent 2030 emissions reduction target and concerns that it could be ratcheted back by future governments.
Labor then amended the bill to clearly enshrine the 43 per cent target as a floor – or a minimum requirement -rather than a ceiling to higher goals, but the Greens continued to steadfastly refuse to support the legislation if it failed to act on coal and gas .
Ms Faruqi flagged their support for the legislation showed it can still work with the government despite having differing opinions.
“We clearly have disagreements with Labor and a whole range of policies but we have shown that we want to work in good faith the way we can and our negotiations on this bill are a prime example of that,” she continued.
“It has now improved with the genuine floor, which means that the target cannot go backwards.”
The bill will be sent to the Senate where it is now expected to pass when Parliament returns in September.
A kidnapped girl’s escape in Alabama has led to the discovery of two decomposing bodies and the arrest of a man now facing murder and kidnapping charges, authorities said.Police got a call Monday morning from a driver about a 12-year-old girl walking alone along County Road 34 in Dadeville, Tallapoosa County Sheriff Jimmy Abbett said Tuesday at a news conference. The girl had been restrained to bed posts for about a week, according to a criminal complaint. She had chewed off her restraints — breaking her braces — and her wrists show marks consistent with restraint, it states. The 12-year-old had been given alcohol to stay “in a drugged state” and was assaulted in the “head area, “the complaint states. She had not been reported missing, the sheriff said. Jose Paulino Pascual-Reyes, 37, was arrested Monday about 25 miles away in Auburn on suspicion of first-degree kidnapping by US Marshals and police, the sheriff said, adding other agencies are also on the case. While searching Pascual-Reyes’ home, detectives found two decomposed bodies, the sheriff said. A forensics team is working to identify the corpses, he said, and how and when they died wasn’t immediately known. The sheriff further stated that “other people” were living in the residence. The sheriff did not say whether these people were being charged or held in connection with the alleged crimes at the residence.Pascual-Reyes also faces three counts of capital murder and two counts of abuse of corpse, Abbett said in a news release.”We ‘re looking at multiple counts of capital murder, along with kidnapping in the first degree,” Tallapoosa County District Attorney Jeremy Duerr said during the news conference. “And of course, once we continue and finish our investigation, I feel certain that several more charges will follow.”Pascual-Reyes awaits a bond hearing at the Tallapoosa County Jail, Abbett said. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had a lawyer.”This is horrendous to have a crime scene of this nature and also a 12-year-old juvenile to deal with this horrendous situation,” Abbett said, calling the girl “a hero .”While the Sheriff did not give any details about when the girl might have been kidnapped or any possible relationship with Pascual-Reyes, he did say she had received medical care and was doing well.”She’s safe now and … we want to keep her that way,” Abbett said.
A kidnapped girl’s escape in Alabama has led to the discovery of two decomposing bodies and the arrest of a man now facing murder and kidnapping charges, authorities said.
Police got a call Monday morning from a driver about a 12-year-old girl walking alone along County Road 34 in Dadeville, Tallapoosa County Sheriff Jimmy Abbett said Tuesday at a news conference.
The girl had been restrained to bed posts for about a week, according to a criminal complaint. She had chewed off her restraints — breaking her braces — and her wrists show marks consistent with restraint, it states.
The 12-year-old had been given alcohol to stay “in a drugged state” and was assaulted in the “head area,” the complaint states. She had not been reported missing, the sheriff said.
Jose Paulino Pascual-Reyes, 37, was arrested Monday about 25 miles away in Auburn on suspicion of first-degree kidnapping by US Marshals and police, the sheriff said, adding other agencies are also on the case.
While searching Pascual-Reyes’ home, detectives found two decomposed bodies, the sheriff said. A forensics team is working to identify the corpses, he said, and how and when they died wasn’t immediately known. The sheriff further stated that “other people” were living in the residence. The sheriff did not say whether these people were being charged or held in connection with the alleged crimes at the residence.
Pascual-Reyes also faces three counts of capital murder and two counts of abuse of corpse, Abbett said in a news release.
“We’re looking at multiple counts of capital murder, along with kidnapping in the first degree,” Tallapoosa County District Attorney Jeremy Duerr said during the news conference. “And of course, once we continue and finish our investigation, I feel certain that several more charges will follow.”
Pascual-Reyes awaits a bond hearing at the Tallapoosa County Jail, Abbett said. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had a lawyer.
“This is horrendous to have a crime scene of this nature and also a 12-year-old juvenile to deal with this horrendous situation,” Abbett said, calling the girl “a hero.”
While the Sheriff did not give any details about when the girl might have been kidnapped or any possible relationship with Pascual-Reyes, he did say she had received medical care and was doing well.
“She’s safe now and… we want to keep her that way,” Abbett said.
Anne Pantazis had become familiar with the pain that had been shooting through her right leg for years.
It had started towards the end of 2018 during a trip to Europe with husband Alex, 62.
“I started noticing a really weird feeling in my shin at the front of my right leg,” she tells 9Honey. “It started to get tingly, like there was ice on it, then it would go away.
“I thought, ‘Hmmm something weird is going on there.’
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Anne and husband Alex were in Europe when she began experiencing pain in her right leg. (Supplied)
When she returned home Anne, 55, visited her GP and it was concluded she must have been suffering from sciatica, a benign condition in which the sciatic nerve in the back and legs causes pain.
“But the numbness in my shin was what I couldn’t let go of,” she says. “Sciatica feels different. If you sit down or lie down with sciatica the pain goes away but with this the pain would increase. It would intensify.”
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Her doctor suspected sciatica, however Anne said it felt different to the benign nerve pain. (Supplied)
She explained this to doctors but felt they were “dismissive.”
Up until then she’d been in “fantastic” health, regularly attending the gym for pilates and enjoying long walks.
She was eventually referred to a neurologist and explained she felt something was wrong with her leg.
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“From there, three spots developed in my inner thigh,” she explains. “They kind of looked like mozzie bites. Of course I showed them to my doctor but they said they didn’t think they were related to my leg pain.”
She was sent to Chris O’Brien Lifehouse for further testing where it was discovered she had an aggressive cancer in her right leg called sarcoma.
Anne before her right leg was amputated. (Supplied)
“I had this kind of sixth sense that my leg was going to come off,” she recalls. “I had 10 days to get used to the idea. I knew my leg was going to come off but I didn’t know how high up it would be.
“I thought I would be able to keep my hip, I thought I could cope with that. But they had to remove it as well. By then I had found this really strange strength. I had no more tears to cry.”
She credits her husband and boys with helping her stay strong, with her sons telling her: “You can get through it mum!”
Her entire right leg was removed including her femur, meaning she lost the ability to bend on her right side at her hip.
Anne following the surgery to remove her right leg, getting used to crutches and her new prosthetic. (Supplied)
“The cancer was basically like an octopus or the root of a tree, it had intertwined itself and wrapped around the main artery in my leg. That’s why I had so much pain when lying down, it was cutting off the circulation and was around a bundle of nerves.”
“I remember the day before the operation,” she says. “Imagine someone told you tomorrow you won’t have a leg. I walked in the park one last time. I remember feeling the ground. I felt the stairs. I realized I was never going to feel like this again. I had a really long shower and thought this is the last time my right leg is going to feel it.”
She says waking up from the surgery was the “strange feeling because I felt extremely light on my right side.”
“You lose six or seven kilos because that’s how heavy your leg is,” she says. “The worst thing is you are left with phantom pain and sensation after the surgery. And it felt like my right leg was hovering about the bed. It was weird.
“When they sat me up it felt like my leg was there but it had gone through the mattress. Then they sat me in a chair and it felt like my right leg had gone through the chair.”
Following her surgery Anne underwent radiotherapy and suffered a “massive infection” in the residual area where her leg had met her hip, requiring another surgery.
“Unfortunately it took me 13 months to heal on top of everything, which meant that it delayed my rehab, plus the COVID lockdowns,” she says.
Anne was referred to Chris O’Brien Lifehouse where she was diagnosed with aggressive cancer. (Supplied)
Because she lost the ability to bend at the hip on her right side, her prosthetic wraps around her waist.
“Only one per cent of all amputees in the world can’t use their hip,” she explains. “Many of us don’t use prosthetics so we can’t walk.
“For me it hasn’t been too long but I’m doing really well,” she says. “Maybe because I have a fitness background.”
She is currently working with a specialized physiotherapist as well as a gait trainer who specializes in prosthetics.
“We meet four to five times a week,” she says. “I am at rehab all the time.”
Watch the video above to see Anne using her prosthetic.
She was fitted with a prosthetic that wraps around her waist. (Supplied)
Today, Anne is doing as well as can be expected.
“I get up and try and do things as normally as possible,” she says. “I live in a two-story home so I use crutches up the stairs at the moment, mainly for safety reasons, but not my prosthetic yet. Yes, you can make a bed with one leg and crutches, it’s just a bit slower.
“Then I have breakfast and go to the gym or pilates. I do drive, I had a left foot pedal installed and it’s really good, so I have my freedom.
“What I don’t have yet is the confidence to go out with my prosthetic,” she explains. “I get out and about okay and to shopping centers but it is tiring. I’ll have a rest in the afternoon and in the evening I still cook dinner with one leg or with my prosthetic.”
She also misses wearing the clothes she used to wear and heels.
“Dressing as an amputee, you don’t feel like yourself,” she explains. “I used to wear really tight clothes but now I wear looser clothes so they fit over my hip prosthetic. I’ve started wearing wrap skirts and things like that.
“And I wear Sketchers at the moment. I’ll be able to wear a block heel later but not right now or I’ll fall over.”
Anne is taking part inGo The Distancefundraising campaign for the second year, raising funds for Chris O’Brien Lifehouse which saved her life. Find out more byvisiting the website.
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Alex Albon has taken a subtle dig at Oscar Piastri while announcing he had re-signed with Williams.
The young Thai-British driver playfully mocked the Aussie in a tweet announcing he had signed a “multi-year” deal with the Grove outfit.
“I understand that, with my agreement, Williams Racing have put out a press release this afternoon that I am driving for them next year,” the Tweet read.
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“This is right, and I have signed a contract with Williams for 2023. I will be driving for Williams next year.”
The tweet is worded almost identically to Piastri’s now-famous rebuttal to Alpine’s news they had signed the 21-year-old Aussie for 2023.
Piastri himself approved of the dig – replying with a GIF reading “well played sir, that was good”.
While Williams was able to secure Albon from 2023 onwards, the future of teammate Nicholas Latifi remains in limbo.
The Canadian is yet to finish in the points this season, and while Albon has only done so twice – with a 10th place finish in Australia and a 9th in Miami – Latifi has not beaten his teammate all season when both cars have made the finish.
Speculation had been rife that Piastri himself may have partnered Albon before the season was finished, although those suggestions have since fallen away.
Piastri is now expected to sign with McLaren, which would potentially open the door for Daniel Ricciardo to reunite with his former team at Alpine.
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After providing police with vague information as to what had taken place, the man was airlifted by rescue hospital to Mackay Base Hospital in a critical condition.
He underwent surgery and was deemed to be in a “serious but stable condition” on Thursday night, according to a Mackay Hospital and Health Service spokeswoman.
Police were dispatched from surrounding areas and at 11.30am sought to establish an exclusion zone over a vast area of country, hoping to contain whoever was responsible.
Vehicles, including even media helicopters, were warned to stay away, as police sought to prevent any further shootings. By 2.30pm, police had located the bodies and shifted the exclusion area.
Police searched scrub and grazing land at Bogie after being alerted to a triple murder.
On Thursday afternoon, Mackay District Police Superintendent Tom Armitt said the “killer or killers” were still at large, in an area he described as remote, hilly and heavily forested.
Armitt said the survivor had traveled “many, many kilometers” to raise the alarm.
“Originally, when the male person spoke to us, he was obviously in a distressed state,” he said.
“There was some confusion about where the shooting had occurred.
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“We do not know who is responsible.
“No indication has been given to us as to why this has occurred.”
According to the most recent census, Bogie has 207 people, almost two-thirds of them men.
The nearest major employer is the Glencore mine at Collinsville, however there are numerous large cattle properties.
There was speculation on Thursday of a boundary dispute involving neighboring graziers, however police remained tight-lipped.
The federal government must rapidly prepare plans to redesign Glen Canyon Dam’s plumbing to keep the Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon as the water levels behind the dam continue to fall, a coalition of environmental groups warned on Wednesday.
Lake Powell is just a quarter full, its surface now at 3,536 feet above sea level — 46 feet from the minimum level to produce hydropower — and falling after the early summer gush of snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains. Two more dry winters could push the reservoir past that point, according to forecasters, and ultimately dam managers may have to open bypass tunnels more than 100 feet deeper just to keep the river flowing.
If it comes to that, the river advocates and their new analysis caution, those tunnels will prove insufficient to release as much water as the Southwest counts on to pass through the Grand Canyon and restock Lake Mead each year.
“This system needs flexibility and it needs it now,” said Eric Balken, whose Glen Canyon Institute partnered with the Utah Rivers Council and the Great Basin Water Network on a new report urging action.
Lake Powell’s elevation has dropped more than 160 feet since it was essentially full at the turn of this century, and the pace has quickened in recent years. Dropping below what the outlets were designed to handle would jeopardize delivery of the water needed to irrigate farms and fully supply cities from Phoenix and Las Vegas to Los Angeles and Tijuana.
The groups’ quest is to persuade the US Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the dam, to study how to keep the river flowing if, as their analysis suggests, climate change and overuse push the system to a breaking point in coming years. Their preferred alternatives are to either expand the capacity of the bypass tunnels or build new tunnels at the dam’s base to allow the river to flow even if Lake Powell empties.
Agency looks for ways to preserve power production
On their first premise — the need to act to prevent the loss of hydropower — they’ll find agreement from many corners. The Bureau of Reclamation, the state of Arizona and the group representing the dam’s hydropower customers all say the region’s two decades of drought present an imminent threat to normal operations at Glen Canyon.
“Given the current uncertainties facing the Colorado River system, as well as the engineering uncertainties involving moving water through the existing infrastructure of Glen Canyon Dam with historically low levels, it would be prudent to thoroughly investigate all reasonable options for making changes to the infrastructure of the dam that enhance its capacity to move large volumes of water safely,” said Arizona Water Resources Director Tom Buschatzke.
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A Reclamation spokeswoman said the agency has committed $2 million to study options to both continue generating power and meet water supply commitments to Arizona, Nevada, California and northwestern Mexico. One such idea that has long been discussed is the option of fitting hydropower turbines lower, in the bypass tunnels.
The idea of building new outlets around the dam’s base, essentially allowing the government to drain the reservoir at least temporarily if and when water managers decided that’s best, is more controversial.
“It gets you to the same point (environmentalists) have always been at, and that’s drain out Powell and fill Mead,” said Leslie James, executive director of the Colorado River Energy Distributors Association.
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The Glen Canyon Institute for years advocated a “Fill Mead First” proposal that would push Powell’s stored water downstream to an equally depleted Lake Mead, restoring treasured natural and recreational assets flooded behind Glen Canyon Dam.
That’s a prospect that ends hydropower production for customers who live around the West, including numerous tribes, so James opposes it. But she welcomes a Reclamation study of other options.
“I’m glad they’re doing it,” she said. “They’re the ones that know the dam inside and out.”
Fill Mead First is an idea whose time has passed, Balken said, if only because draining all the water from Powell at this point would not, in fact, be nearly enough to fill the larger reservoir downstream. Instead, he said, a river-level bypass system would allow the government to continue moving water downstream regardless of how low Lake Powell falls.
As currently designed, the dam would stop releasing water if the reservoir falls below the existing bypasses, effectively drying up the Grand Canyon and trapping nearly 2 million acre-feet of water behind the dam, nearly two-thirds of what Arizona would normally take from the river in a year.
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But the Southwest would suffer long before the river actually stopped flowing, Balken and colleagues say, because the reservoir’s declining elevation would reduce pressure that causes water to gush from either the power intakes or the bypass tunnels. For this part of their analysis, they relied on a white paper produced by river scientist Jack Schmidt and colleagues at Utah State University.
Schmidt, a former chief of the government’s Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, published a paper in 2016 that included a quantification of the amount of water that the dam could move in a year at various elevations.
At elevation 3,430 feet, the volume that the dam could push downstream would drop below the 7.5 million acre-feet that the Colorado River Compact requires upstream states to supply to the states below Glen Canyon, not to mention the 1.5 million acre-feet in Mexico’s treaty allocation.
At 3,400 feet, still 26 feet above where the bypass tubes start to go dry, the dam could deliver less than half of the Southwestern states’ normal entitlement.
If drought worsens, the risks will grow
That entitlement already took a hit due to the shortage in Lake Mead this year. It was expected to shrink further next year, even before Reclamation’s commissioner announced in June that the states throughout the river basin need a plan to forego up to another 4 million acre-feet, which is about a third of what the river has produced most years during the drought.
The rapidly shifting mandates from the Bureau of Reclamation demonstrate the increasingly dire outlook, said Zach Frankel, executive director of the Utah Rivers Council. States were given just two months to plan dramatic cuts before the government sets 2023 shortage levels later this month.
“For an agency that normally moves at a glacial pace,” he said, “that’s pretty remarkable.”
Fast action is imperative, according to the report by Frankel and colleagues. In their analysis, a continuation of the weather and resulting flows that the Colorado experienced from 2017 to 2021 would push Lake Powell too low to make its obliged water deliveries by 2027.
They studied that timeframe, they said, because it fairly represents the 21st century’s reduction in flows, about 20% below last century’s. If, however, the coming years look more like the exceptionally dry stretch that occurred from 2000 to 2004, they projected the dam could lose its ability to move any water as soon as 2025.
Brandon Loomis covers environmental and climate issues for The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. Reach him at [email protected] or follow on Twitter @brandonloomis.
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Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams has debuted her most dramatic hair transformation yet.
The 25-year-old UK actress, who shot to fame playing Arya Stark on the HBO fantasy series in 2011, uploaded a holiday snap showing off her edgy new buzzcut.
“Washing head w facewash,” she captioned photos of the new look on Instagram, adding the hashtag #3in1girlie.
British model Iris Law, 21, who recently debuted her own shaved head, gave Williams her stamp of approval in the comments, to which Williams replied, “U the blueprint.”
Tons of other friends and fans showed love for the bold look as well, with one person writing, “You have a lovely shaped bonce!”
Others commented, “Oh she cute,” “Queeeeeeen! I wasn’t ready” and “Wow, the buzz cut looks amazing on you.”
While this may be one of Williams’ most dramatic changes yet, she’s no stranger to pushing boundaries.
Earlier this year, the former child star bleached her hair and eyebrows a platinum hue for her role in the forthcoming limited series about the Sex Pistols.
And shortly after ending her eight-season run as Arya in 2019, Williams departed from her character by dyeing her brown hair a bright bubblegum pink.
“I love it, it’s a whole new me,” she said at the time.
Her big chop may be a nod to boyfriend Reuben Selby, who has a similarly cropped cut. The couple of three years often match their looks, having sported the same makeup and similar outfits in the front rows of Paris Fashion Week in 2019.
It comes as the Thrones spin-off,House of the Dragon, is just weeks away from premiering.
The prequel series, set 200 years before the events of GoTwill focus on the rise and fall of the Targaryen family.
It premieres express from the US on Binge and Foxtel on August 22.
