'There's a price for storing water at Glen Canyon: massive environmental degradation,' Eric Balken says.
For 17 years, Eric Balken has sailed the choppy waters of Lake Powell along with stepping foot on the hundreds of slot canyons that have revealed themselves after being submerged for decades at Glen Canyon.
Balken, now the Executive Director of the Glen Canyon Institute, says the dam was built to capture excess water along the Colorado River Basin without considering the consequences.Thanks to the wet winter, 30,000 acres of Glen Canyon land that had previously dried out were inundated this year.Even with the rise, there are noticeable changes in the glens and canyon walls after being untouched by Lake Powell for 20 years.
"If there's not enough water in the system to store either one of those, why inundate what should be a national park?" Balken claims."Put that water in Lake Mead." "Those national park gateway communities tend to be really sustainable economically and I think that's what we should prepare for," he says."I would be shocked if this reservoir were here in 50 years."
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