Photos: ‘Bathtub rings’ show drought in the Colorado River Basin

By Megan Arellano
· Mar. 30, 2015, 4:49 pm

 

Lake Powell stores water for some 40 million people, including Coloradoans. But as the Washington Post reports, the lake is now 45 percent below capacity.

Getty photographer Justin Sullivan captured just how striking the water loss is in a series of photographs from this weekend.

 

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