#lakepowell — Public Fediverse posts
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If a system becomes weak enough and the opposition divided enough, if the ruling order is corrupt enough and people are angry enough, extremists can suddenly step into the center, where no one expects them. And after that it can take decades to undo the damage.
-- Kontra (@counternotions)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Kontra #Authoritarianism #Corruption #Politics
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah
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In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
-- Nicholas Chamfort⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NicholasChamfort #History
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Lake Powell hits record low, threatening key water and electricity supply for millions https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/lake-powell-hits-record-low-threatening-key-water-and-electricity-supply-for-millions/
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeBernardShaw #Democracy
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah
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Trump admin finalizes a short-term Colorado River plan. Here’s what it means for Lake Powell.
The Trump administration won’t force Utah and other Upper Basin states to cut their Colorado River water use over the next two years, but Lower Basin states like California will collectively slash their consumption by over 1 million acre-feet per year for the next two years.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
-- George Bernard Shaw⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeBernardShaw #TheFuture #Wisdom
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah
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#LakePowell was always a terrible idea, created by damming and filling exquisite Glen Canyon. It needs to go. https://prospect.org/2026/08/19/drain-lake-powell-water-american-west/
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‘Uncharted territory’: Second-largest reservoir in US plunges to a record low
Lake Powell dropped to 3519.91 feet on Saturday, breaking the record low of 3,519.92 feet set in April 2023. The record came nine days after Lake Mead, the US’s biggest reservoir, dropped to its lowest level since it was first filled nine decades ago.
#LakePowell #drought #water #ColoradoRiver #record
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/16/climate/lake-powell-reservoir-record-low-colorado-river
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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
-- Pierre Bayle⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PierreBayle #Invention
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Unprecedented #water decline
Two major #US #reservoirs are at record lows, careening toward a point where they will no longer be able to meet the #power needs for millions of people
#LakePowell, the 2nd-largest reservoir in the US, provides water & #electricity to millions in the West. It has now has shrunk to its lowest level on record, in the latest sign of the alarming crisis unfolding on the #drought stricken #ColoradoRiver.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #USpolicy
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/16/climate/lake-powell-reservoir-record-low-colorado-river -
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-- Arthur Rubinstein⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ArthurRubinstein #Life #Love
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If the voter cannot grasp the details of the problems of the day because he has not the time, the interest or the knowledge, he will not have a better public opinion because he is asked to express his opinion more often.
-- Walter Lippmann⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WalterLippmann #Democracy
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah
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What you do thunders so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RalphWaldoEmerson #Action #Words
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah
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Perhaps nothing government does, or will not stop doing, should be surprising in a country in which a Kansas bank was fined because it did not have Braille instructions on the ATM machines in its drive-through banking lanes.
-- George F. Will⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeFWill #Politics
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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed -- everything else is public relations.
-- George Orwell⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeOrwell #Journalism
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