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2. Lake Powell - Wikipedia

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   Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River in Utah and Arizona, United States. It is a major vacation destination visited by approximately two million people every year. It holds 24,322,000 acre-feet (3.0001 × 10 10 m 3) of water when full, second in the United States to only Lake Mead - though Lake Mead has fallen below Lake Powell in ...

3. Should we drain Lake Powell? This author says yes - AOL

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   The recreation area surrounds Lake Powell, built in the 1950s and 1960s by the Bureau of Reclamation, which dammed and flooded Glen Canyon in order to create a reservoir to store and deliver ...

4. Glen Canyon Dam - Wikipedia

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   Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page.The 710-foot-high (220 m) dam was built by the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. with a capacity of more than 25 million acre-feet (31 km 3). [4]

5. San Juan River (Colorado River tributary) - Wikipedia

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   The San Juan River is a major tributary of the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States, providing the chief drainage for the Four Corners region of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. Originating as snowmelt in the San Juan Mountains (part of the Rocky Mountains) of Colorado, it flows 383 miles (616 km) [2] through the deserts of ...

6. Dry boat ramps, exposed rocks at Lake Powell reveal the cost ...

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   Guides Paul McNabb (right) and his dad Mike McNabb fish for striped bass on Feb. 2, 2022, in Antelope Canyon on Lake Powell, near Page.

7. Climate change: Low water levels at key U.S. reservoir ... - AOL

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   Since 2000, the Western U.S. has been facing the worst 22-year drought in 1,200 years, the severity of which has been at least partially attributed to human-caused climate change.According to a ...

8. List of largest reservoirs in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Lake Powell, impounded by Glen Canyon Dam, is the second-largest reservoir in the U.S.. This is a list of largest reservoirs in the United States, including all artificial lakes with a capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3).

9. Western U.S. faces water and power shortages due to ... - AOL

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   Lake Mead and Lake Powell, which are both man-made reservoirs on the Colorado River, are currently at their lowest levels ever, in part because of an ongoing drought exacerbated by climate change.