http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...96,print.story
Houseboat Heaven: Flush It
The "Jewel of the Colorado" Is Gone for Good
By Wade Graham
LA Times June 19, 2005
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Lake Powell will soon be no more — at least the Lake Powell that Americans have known for nearly 40 years: the green lake shimmering incongruously in the baking red desert of southern Utah and northern Arizona, a play land for houseboaters created when the federal Bureau of Reclamation shut the gates of the new Glen Canyon Dam in 1963.>>>
<<< The facts are clear — and startling. Drought didn't drain the reservoir, as commonly believed. Rising demand for water did. Simply put, we are taking more water out of the river than nature puts in.>>>
To any of you who have enjoyed boating on Lake Powell as me and my family have this is downright depressing