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Lake Powell's Glen Canyon Dam is failing and Utahns need to stop pretending it’s worth saving.
Breaking the Overton Window
As Lake Powell continues to recede, a growing body of stakeholders argue that the best fix is to let it die. Zak Podmore Lake Mead wraps itself around the southeastern edge of Nevada, a blob of dark blue clinging to the gray desert like a three-armed barometer of climate collapse.
One arm reaches upstream from Hoover Dam, past the inlets that pump water to Las Vegas and the wash that returns the city’s treated wastewater to the reservoir.
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