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The comeback canyon: drought is draining Lake Powell.

Publication: Sierra
Publication Date: 01-NOV-03
Format: Online - approximately 506 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The comeback canyon: drought is draining Lake Powell.(Glen Canyon)

Article Excerpt
THERE AREN'T MANY SILVER LININGS to drought, but severe conditions in the Southwest are doing what the mighty U.S. Bureau of Reclamation won't do. Since 1996, the Sierra Club and other groups have led a campaign to drain Lake Powell, which (when full) holds 7.8 trillion gallons of Colorado River water behind the agency's 710-foot-tall Glen Canyon Dam near the Arizona-Utah border. Until recently, environmentalists could only rely on aging photos and lyrical accounts by...

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