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Lake Powell
Photo: Dry years have drained Lake Powell to below its high-water mark
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The cracked bed of Utah's drought-plagued Lake Powell bakes under the desert sun. The rate of evaporation in deserts can be 20 times higher than the rate of precipitation.
Photograph by Peter Essick

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