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

· 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.

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

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