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Sheri Quinn
Utah Public Radio News Director
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In its first year, the Youth Coalition for Great Salt Lake , comprised of about 15 high school and college age students, has accomplished a lot. They are working with organizations and lake stakeholde...
![Tim Gaylord, Holiday River Expeditions director of operations, takes journalists and water experts down the Colorado River Moab Daily during a kickoff event for the Colorado River Collaborative in Grand County on Thursday, April 25, 2024. The kickoff event was sponsored by the Utah State University Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water and Air and The Water Desk. (Kristin Murphy, Deseret News)](/images/econa-article-images/716/intro/Colorado River_KM_1825.jpg)
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The Colorado River, considered the lifeblood of the southwest, is so depleted that it no longer reaches the ocean. It supplies water to more than 40 million people, including two million residents alo...
![Nathan Thayn (left), Lee Thayn (middle) and Ross Thayn (right), are some of the few full-time farmers in Green River, Utah. They are shown on their property in October 2023. They grow alfalfa and corn and participated in an experiment by the Upper Colorado River Commission to fallow a field to save water. Manuel Rodriguez, FOX 13 News.](/images/econa-article-images/569/intro/Thayns 3 generations.jpg)
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Utah program pays farmers to fallow crops and it’s saving a little bit of water for the Colorado River. Whether it should be a solution for Great Salt Lake is still a thorny issue with ripple effects...
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Utah is spending more than $200 million to get agriculture to switch to water saving technologies. But is the saved water getting to the Great Salt Lake?
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Utah program helps farmers grow crops with less water. Is it helping the Great Salt Lake?
![(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dr. Rubab Saher, a researcher in hydrologic sciences with Desert Research Institute (DRI), in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022.](/images/econa-article-images/281/intro/vegas-30-tn-0181.jpg)
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Removing all high-water-use plants is not the panacea in times of rising temperatures and droughts across the southwest, according to a new study. Deadly flooding of the Indus River in Pakistan back i...
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The Great Salt Lake Hydro Mapper is a user-friendly webpage with information about what’s happening with Great Salt Lake in real-time, like the water and salinity levels and most importantly, what’s h...
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Matt Yost is a Utah State University professor in Plants, Soils & Climate and USU Extension specialist. He knows farming first-hand. He grew up on a dairy farm in Burley Idaho. “My father still operat...
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