Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West

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Where will the water come from to sustain the great desert cities of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix? In a provocative exploration of the past, present, and future of water in the West, James Lawrence Powell begins at Lake Powell, the vast reservoir that has change into an emblem of this story. At the present, Lake Powell is not up to half full. Bathtub rings ten stories tall encircle its blue water; boat ramps and marinas lie stranded and useless. To refill it would require surplus water―but there’s no surplus: burgeoning populations and thirsty crops consume each and every drop of the Colorado River. Add to this picture the looming effects of global warming and drought, and the scenario becomes bleaker still. Dead Pool, featuring rarely seen historical photographs, explains why The usa built the dam that made Lake Powell and others find it irresistible and then allowed its citizens to change into dependent on their benefits, that have been at all times temporary. Writing for a wide audience, Powell shows us exactly why an urgent threat all over the first half of the twenty-first century will come not from the rising of the seas but from the falling of the reservoirs.

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