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Brian Steed has a big job ahead of him, if the Utah Legislature confirms his new role as Great Salt Commissioner. If so, his official work overseeing the rescue of Great Salt Lake could start as early...
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OGDEN — The Great Salt Lake has long been an undeniable asset to the region. However, this asset has been under threat. Between the ravages of climate change and increasing interception of source wate...
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Editor's note: This story is an excerpt from the Great Salt Lake Collaborative's weekly newsletter, Lake Effect from Feb. 14, 2025. To keep up-to-date on water news from around Utah with a focus on Gr...
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Editor's note: This story is an excerpt from the Great Salt Lake Collaborative's weekly newsletter, Lake Effect from Feb. 7, 2025. To keep up-to-date on water news from around Utah with a focus on Gre...
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Editor's note: This story is an excerpt from the Great Salt Lake Collaborative's weekly newsletter, Lake Effect from Jan. 31, 2025. To keep up-to-date on water news from around Utah with a focus on Gr...
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Editor's note: This story is an excerpt from the Great Salt Lake Collaborative's weekly newsletter, Lake Effect from Jan. 24, 2025. To keep up-to-date on water news from around Utah with a focus on Gr...
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Better together It's Heather May here from the Great Salt Lake Collaborative and Colorado River Collaborative. I want to share with you the accomplishments we've made in 2024. By we, I mean the partne...
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Editor's note: This list of potential solutions was made for students who are learning about the Great Salt Lake through a partnership the Great Salt Lake Collaborative has with Spy Hop, a nonprofit d...
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The Great Salt Lake Collaborative is partnering with Plan-B Theatre on a play about the Great Salt Lake, through Salt Lake City Arts Council's Wake the Great Salt Lake program. Your answers could shap...
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"Do we really need a sign to live, laugh and love?" asks Dr. Rick Methods in those funny Progressive commercials . The answer is yes. It's even better when the sign says "Live. Laugh. Lake." Score one...
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So you’re thinking about ripping out your lawn — and getting paid a government rebate to do it. Some advice: There are plenty of funds available — if you live in a qualifying city. Know that you will...
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This is adapted from our free weekly newsletter Lake Effect, which comes out every Friday. Sign up for free here . It's time to get outside and play at Great Salt Lake. News about the lake shouldn't o...
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Post Malone once called it a "dope venue" that "kinda stinks." This is adapted from our free weekly newsletter Lake Effect, which comes out every Friday. Sign up for free here . In honor of spring bre...
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What do the birds sounds like? Why does the state oppose the listing? What's the next legal fight? This is adapted from our free weekly newsletter Lake Effect, which comes out every Friday. Sign up fo...
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The events listed here are from the Great Salt Lake Collaborative's free, weekly newsletter called Lake Effect. Sign up to get local, lake-related news delivered to your inbox every Friday. Have an ev...
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The events listed here are from the Great Salt Lake Collaborative's free, weekly newsletter called Lake Effect. Sign up to get local, lake-related news delivered to your inbox every Friday. Have an ev...
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The Great Salt Lake Watershed Enhancement Trust — created to improve water quantity and quality for the lake — released its five-year strategy this week. The Utah Legislature created the Trust with $4...
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Headlines from the beginning of the 2024 Utah Legislature declared that lawmakers were considering spending millions for the Great Salt Lake and conservation. So what got passed — and passed over — in...
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Is it possible to create a Great Salt Lake friendly neighborhood? Seniors in Utah State University’s Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Department capstone class have created a waterwise...
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The University of Utah’s College of Humanities is partnering with the award-winning Great Salt Lake Collaborative to give students real world journalism experience. The groundbreaking collaborative in...
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This data comes from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food. The Great Salt Lake Collaborative requested records of the state's Agricultural Water Optimization Program — the grantees, amount of m...
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The Great Salt Lake Collaborative — a solutions journalism organization made up of local newsrooms — requested data from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food. We asked for records of who had re...
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We asked readers of our newsletter what books they've read to understand water issues in the West. Here is a list that will be updated as more recommendations come in. You will find speculative fictio...
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According to Visit Utah — a website that promotes travel to Utah by the state of Office of Tourism — the Great Salt Lake boasts "magical walks in the wetlands to breathtaking sunset sails to unparalle...
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Utah lawmakers approved spending $10 million in the past two legislative sessions on turf buyback programs, to get Utahns to rip our their grass and save water. But to qualify for the rebate of $0.50...
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Journalist Ben Winslow went to Israel in search of solutions to the U.S. megadrought in a country that has thrived despite being built in a desert. America is experiencing a historic, destructive mega...
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Scroll through this graphic to learn what solutions the Great Salt Lake Collaborative reported on over the past year and what Utah lawmakers did to save the lake.
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The Colorado River Collaborative Journalists and water experts raft down the Moab Daily section of the Colorado River with Holiday River Expeditions during a kickoff event for the Colorado River Colla...
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