Utah’s Great Salt Lake under threat

Officials are now sounding the alarm about climate change.

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[mrlee]

As someone who stays in a desert, you need to learn how to survive in this harsh environment without golf courses

[DodongoManoof]

We're all gonna just wait until things are totally out of hand and irreversible before doing anything about this. Good job Human race.

[Kevbot]

I live in Salt Lake City and am planning to save up and move because so many people moving here has made the area unaffordable and this just adds another reason ✌️

[Allaiya.]

This is so sad. Every city needs to start preserving their water like Las Vegas has done.

[mikejennings]

Nobody from Utah believed in climate change...what happened?

[huluranch]

Beer distributors as well as plastic and major companies draining this as well as gold mining and farming in the DESERT THIS HAS TO STOP NOW

[uwcndty]

if only we had been warned about this 40 years ago....

[kazy]

"Oh it's 8times more salinity" yea but adding small amount over time will make it 9, 10 times more... If the input was the fresh, the way to maintain what it is, is to add fresh...

[gandolph]

The GOP doesn't believe in climate change. So, there's no problem. Nothing to see here.

[SecretTreeFortMusic]

I hope Utah stays safe from ManBearPig… prayers.

[greengabe]

The lake is *gone*

Stop talking about it like there’s something we can do. It’s *gone* .

If you live there, move now. Before the next Dust Bowl hits.

[catchAbreath]

It is a shocking that the Salt Lake is now being drought as such lower water level. When I used to live in Ogden as a exchange student from Japan 25 years ago, the Lake was full of it, but now it is unbelievably lower water level. Oh, I hope the next year the Lake will recover the water level a bit by bit by having some rain from mountain range surrounding the Salt Lake.

[spencermatthews]

Thank goodness I live in Canada, where we have 15% of the world's fresh water!!

[genericalfishtycoon]

I've been trying to explain the damage done here in Maine by Nestle's Poland Springs for 17 years now myself. I could write a book about it, but it'd certainly never get published. The cold springs that used to flow up from the ground in rivers and ponds are nothing compared to what they were a decade ago and they dwindle more each year. The marshes nearest the pumping stations have undergone a rapid biome change. Algae, plants, insects, it's all changing with the temperature increases from the drop in aquifer pressure. Annelid infestations on crayfish that are nasty enough to give nightmares, especially in the brooks around the pumping stations like the one over in Fryeburg. I used to live down the road from there on Lovewell pond when I was a kid and spent most of my time in and on the water, so I'm very astute in observing every minor change. They have different sources, but the worst offender even over boating tourists with their rock snot and milfoil, is Poland Springs by a longshot. Destroying the environment, screwing over communities that give resistance, and padding politicians pockets to let them have their way with our land's natural resources unhindered. We might not be suffering the same fate as the west, but our creatures are suffering. Our water quality is suffering. People without deep wells are suffering. And every pumping station has tanker truck after tanker truck lined up ready to suck the water away 24/7/365. It takes just a few minutes to fill the trucks with thousands of gallons, and they're just never ending.

[InternetBrowsing]

Maybe Utah can pray for the lake to be restored

[BarbaraHolliday]

Good job Mitt!
When Corps Become People, People Become Corpse....

[AshKetchhum]

I still remember when former President Trump said Global Warming was a hoax.

[robertshrewsbury]

The water pipeline from California to Utah? (for The Great Salt Lake) makes no sense, when The Great Salt Lake is only 60 miles (as a crow fly's) from an fresh-water Aquifer on the Utah/Nevada border. This Aquifer comes out of Canada (Calgary area) and ends up emptying in The Sea of Cortez, Mexico to the Ocean salt water, waisted. It is known that this Aquifer has a water flow as large as the Amazon River in South America. And the Grand Stair Case is also an enormous (underground) body of water, see the Oren Hatch report on this. "Don't hunt for Deer in Africa, when we already have plenty of Deer close by" I am a profesional in Mineral/Water Detection and have already verified this enormous body of water myself.

[johndunn]

Can't they just deny it ever had water in it? Problem solved. USA USA USA

[VenerandoMoore]

Aral Sea is dying and now a Salt Lake is dying. So sad to see these things happen in our time.