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The Once-Great Salt Lake2024 Oct 13
Utah's Great Salt Lake is going away. Like so many other salt lakes across the world, such as the Aral Sea, a combination of less precipitation, higher heat, and greater diversion of its sourcewaters to irrigation have cost the lake to the point that it's near to going away. And as salt lakes go away and leave dry lakebeds in their wake, those dry lakebeds turn into dust bowls with far-reaching harms.
It's ok, though, Utah is working on plans to save their lake. Water conservation is one obvious answer, you'd think. There's also plans to steal water from other watersheds, robbing Peter to pay Paul, basically, and some cockamamie idea to just pump in the Pacific Ocean. But Utah's favorite answer, of course, is to pray for rain:
the most common strategy echoed by the Utahans interviewed for this story: Pray for snow
Utah's Great Salt Lake is going away. Like so many other salt lakes across the world, such as the Aral Sea, a combination of less precipitation, higher heat, and greater diversion of its sourcewaters to irrigation have cost the lake to the point that it's near to going away. And as salt lakes go away and leave dry lakebeds in their wake, those dry lakebeds turn into dust bowls with far-reaching harms.
It's ok, though, Utah is working on plans to save their lake. Water conservation is one obvious answer, you'd think. There's also plans to steal water from other watersheds, robbing Peter to pay Paul, basically, and some cockamamie idea to just pump in the Pacific Ocean. But Utah's favorite answer, of course, is to pray for rain: