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The Great Salt Lake is slipping back into dangerously low levels, fueled by water consumption and drought conditions ...
As the search for solutions to the shrinking Great Salt Lake continues, researchers at Utah State University opened up conversations with the biggest water users in the state: farmers.
The Salt Lake Tribune analyzed dozens of water rights applications submitted in the two years following a moratorium on most new appropriations within the Great Salt Lake Basin. Here's what we found.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Controlled releases from Utah Lake to the Great Salt Lake have resumed. The Central Utah Water Conservancy District plans to send 70,000 acre-feet of water to the Great Salt Lake.
The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster with health and economic effects far beyond Utah’s borders. The state is taking action, but critics say it’s not doing enough.
With recent storms, Great Salt Lake Basin's snowpack jumped back to 99% of its median average for this point in the season to start this week. It's higher than the statewide average of 89%.
Despite two wet years, the Great Salt Lake is still in crisis. Lake levels fluctuate, but the long-term trend remains persistently low. To restore the lake, Utah needs a solution that adapts to ...
A solution to the Great Salt Lake’s blowing dust might lie deep beneath its surface A team of geologists drilled through strange formations dotting the lake’s drying playa, and were surprised ...
Grow the Flow is a volunteer group that is working to spread awareness of the Great Salt Lake’s health. They will lobby the Utah Legislature until Feb. 27 in support of bills that will save and ...