Population pressures drying up Great Salt Lake
Utah’s Great Salt Lake could disappear within the next five years.
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Utah’s Great Salt Lake could disappear within the next five years.
The company pushing a controversial proposal to dredge Utah Lake and build islands on it has filed a lawsuit against the state, challenging its rejection of their permit application for the project.
The largest saline lake in North America is on track to collapse within five years, a new report finds
According to a newly published report, the Great Salt Lake could disappear in the next five years. Today we’ll talk with two of the report’s authors: Benjamin Abbott, Assistant Professor in the Plant and Wildlife Sciences Department at Brigham Young University, and Bonnie Baxter, Professor and Chair of Biology and Director of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College.
Scientists say excessive water use is to blame, with 74% of diverted lakewater being used for unsustainable agricultural practices. Utah's Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, could be set to disappear within the...