Yes, it still is a big pond. Yet, I'd like to go down to Vegas Wash, and
look at swallow's nests that we used to drive up in a boat and touch, and
see them. Wait, you have to hike 100 yards now and look up with
binoculars. There is a huge canyon there where the original Colorado River
still holds a lot of water. But it isn't what it used to be. Lake Powell
took a lot of water away, only to lose it to absorption through the
sandstone strata the lake was made on, or additional evaporation. It's
all a testimony to politics and man's idea that they can control nature.
With the Hoover Dam project, and subsequent dams, Davis, Parker, and
Topock Slough, they did a good job. They controlled the Colorado and
provided agricultural water to California and points south of Hoover Dam.
A good thing. Then they decided to put a big plug upstream at Lake
Powell, probably because of pork and idiocy.


The issue of Glen Canyon Dam has been debated to death. In the end, there
are two views. Yours and the other one. I subscribe to the other one.