Last year 2.5 million people visited Lake Powell and the adjoining Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

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In 2007, Gardner survived after small plane he was traveling in crashed into Lake Powell, Utah.

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Daniel Kraker of member station KNAU takes us to the shores of Lake Powell, the gigantic reservoir behind the Glen Canyon Dam.

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Lake Powell is huge -- 186 miles long, with 1, 960 miles of shoreline (more than the Pacific Ocean coastline from northern Washington to southern California).

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Lake Powell, along the Arizona-Utah border, is at half its capacity.

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Not A Bathtub Several organizations, led by the Sierra Club, are pushing an astonishingly goofy idea: Drain Lake Powell (in Utah and Arizona) and decommission the Glen Canyon Dam.

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Draining Lake Powell would leave an esthetic horror.

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For most of the past century, agriculture has been the winner of the water wars, receiving the great bulk of water from the Colorado River and its two large reservoirs at Lake Mead and Lake Powell.

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And the there are periods in between when you're apt to have drought, and that's especially problem in the Southwest where Lake Powell, you know, went down about 100 feet and has recovered a little bit.

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But Lake Powell must be drained.

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An organisation that usually pays close attention to the views of its rank and file, the club took its decision to support the draining of Lake Powell after an appeal from the elderly Mr Brower, something of a legend in environmental circles.

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