New York Times: While relatively low flow into Lake Powell has been a constant in recent years, an improvement in 2011 has helped mask the effects of the severe drought this year. Like the actors in "A Chorus Line," different regions of the United States have had their moments in the spotlight as droughts gave them stories to tell. Last year it was the Deep South and especially Texas and Oklahoma. As a 50-year chart by my colleagues Haeyoun Park and Kevin Quealy reflects, this year unusually large swaths of...
URL: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/southwestern-drought-in-fact-and-film/
Enclosure: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/07/20/science/river/river-blog480.jpg
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