The Funsaver competed with nonconsumption: Customers whose alternative was to have no photos of their two weeks at the lake were perfectly happy with the quality.

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The project is intended to give the authorities the ability to draw water from the Colorado River for the Las Vegas area and guard against water quality issues that are associated with continually dropping lake levels.

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Advocates say the lake and dam are arrogant examples of man's attempt to corral nature to improve the quality of life and standard of living.

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"There is a massive gap between where we are and where we could be, " says Dr. Brent James, a vice president at Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City, a big hospital chain that was one of the first to focus on systemic quality improvements.

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These changes are making water supply and quality more difficult to obtain, affecting runoff and soil moisture, increasing water temperatures, decreasing snowpack and lake and river ice, threatening fish and aquatic species, and allowing saltwater intrusion and sea level rise.

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