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