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Lake Powell: Half empty or half full?
Those who live and work near the huge reservoir straddling the Utah/Arizona border worry that the outside world's perception, at least, is that the half-empty desert lake a tourist magnet is drying up, like many much-shallower reservoirs in the drought-stricken West.
"Some people think we're just a mud puddle," says Bob Seney, vice president of operations for Lake Powell Resorts and Marinas, a concessionaire.
The low-water stigma and the stagnant economy are both to blame for business that's down 15 percent to 20 percent for his company, he said.
Some environmentalists, on the other hand, seem energized by Lake Powell's declining depth, even though it is a particularly deep reservoir and is nowhere near empty. The Colorado River's Glen Canyon and its tributaries have been mostly submerged beneath the lake's waters for decades "full pool" was achieved in 1980 and the falling water level has revealed long-lost caverns and red-rock formations, most whitewashed by the rising-and-falling reservoir's "bathtub ring."
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