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Aerial view of harvester and speeder boats deploying containment booms in preparation for harvesting brine shrimp (Artemia) on Great Salt Lake. Courtesy Great Salt Lake Artemia.

The world needs to feed 10 billion people. The Great Salt Lake could teach us how.

12-05-2023 by Emma Penrod

Saving the Great Salt Lake is important because it makes a critical international industry more sustainable. Editor’s note: This story is...

Fox 13

A highly-anticipated report on saving the Great Salt Lake is delivered to Utah leaders

12-05-2023 by Ben Winslow

SALT LAKE CITY — A highly-anticipated report recommending ways to save the Great Salt Lake has been delivered to Utah's governor and legisla...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

This photo from 1930 shows a promotional sign at Saltair. In 1893 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built Saltair on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, sixteen miles from downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. It was sold to a private individual in 1906. The main attraction was swimming in the Great Salt Lake. There was also a roller coaster, a merry-go-round, a ferris wheel, midway games, bicycle races, touring vaudeville companies, rodeos, bullfights, boat rides on the lake, firework display and even hot-air balloons. In 1925 it burned to the ground. A new pavilion was designed and built but it never regained its popularity. It closed for good in 1958. It was again destroyed by fire in November of 1970. Photo used by permission, Uintah County Library Regional History Center, all rights reserved.

Why save the Great Salt Lake? A special report

11-30-2023 by Emma Penrod

Here’s a question that catches people off guard: What would happen if Utah is successful in saving the Great Salt Lake? For the past two y...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jake Young, landscape architect designed this park strip in Farmington, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023.

Fixing the lake could pave the way to solving Utah’s mental health crisis

11-28-2023 by Emma Penrod

How thinking about water when planning cities and homes can save the lake and lead to happier, more connected Utahns Editor’s note: This s...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

This illustration shows a way to develop communities along the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake so that sprawl is limited and the wetlands are buffered. It was created by Utah State University’s Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning seniors in their capstone class in Spring 2023.

How to build a lake-friendly yard, neighborhood

11-28-2023 by Heather May

Is it possible to create a Great Salt Lake friendly neighborhood? Seniors in Utah State University’s Landscape Architecture & Environmenta...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Caleb Wilkins is the CEO of the agricultural startup Renaissance Ag. Courtesy Renaissance Ag. His goal is to produce more food in less space by using vertical farming techniques.

Farming goes high tech

11-28-2023 by Emma Penrod

Renaissance Ag CEO Caleb Wilkins does not believe farmers set out to destroy the environment, the land on which they depend. They know how t...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Kelby Johnson with his sons Luke (in his arms) and Wyatt. Johnson runs a 100-acre farm in Benson, Utah, and hopes his children will become fifth-generation family farmers. But the Johnsons must withstand pressure to sell to developers and cut costs and water for the Great Salt Lake. (Jeffrey Dahdah, KSL-TV).

The Great Salt Lake and Utah farms could save each other. Here's how.

11-28-2023 by Emma Penrod

Surprise: Agriculture and the lake need each other to survive Editor’s note: This story is part of a series of stories by the Great Salt L...

Fox 13

Great Salt Lake levels stabilize — for now

11-22-2022 by Ben Winslow

Salt Lake Tribune

The Great Salt Lake’s ecological collapse has begun

11-20-2022 by Leia Larsen

Fox 13

Cox issues proclamation cutting off some water diversions to help the Great Salt Lake

11-18-2022 by Ben Winslow

KSL.com

New initiative aims to get people to 'fall in love' with the Great Salt Lake again

11-18-2022 by Carter Williams

Fox 13

New research and initiatives to help save the Great Salt Lake

11-18-2022 by Ben Winslow

Deseret News

Competing news outlets are working together to save the Great Salt Lake. Is it working?

11-18-2022 by McKenzie Romero

KSL.com

Students get expansive Great Salt Lake experience

11-17-2022 by Sydnee Gonzalez

KSL.com

What role can history play in saving the Great Salt Lake, solving Utah's water woes?

11-16-2022 by Carter Williams

Fox 13

Environmental group says changing Utah’s tax laws could put 20% more water in Great Salt Lake

11-16-2022 by Ben Winslow

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Workers with Foxtail Turf remove the grass from Patricia Council's North Las Vegas yard, replacing it with artificial turf on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022.

Las Vegas vs. Great Salt Lake water districts: This graphic explains the differences

11-13-2022 by Wendy Ogata

Fox 13

Video: Las Vegas incentivizes removal of green turf. Should Utah?

11-13-2022 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salvador Polanco-Gamez, a conservation aide with the Las Vegas Valley Water District, patrols in Summerlin, a community in the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. When runoff water from a home's sprinklers reaches the street, Polanco-Gamez stops to document the situation and notify the homeowner.

Video: Las Vegas has tough restrictions on outdoor landscaping. Would it work in Utah?

11-13-2022 by Ben Winslow

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Las Vegas golf courses have an annual water budget under strict conservation methods. This picture shows Old Mill Golf Course in Salt Lake City on Friday, June 25, 2021.

Utah officials applauds Nevada’s water conservation measures; cautions against direct comparisons

11-08-2022 by Wendy Ogata

Utah Public Radio (UPR)

(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.

You can still have an “oasis” in the desert

11-08-2022 by Sheri Quinn

Utah Public Radio and Fox 13 News

Chad Cranney, assistant wildlife manager for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, pilots a fan boat carrying Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, and Utah Rep. Joel Ferry, R-Brigham City, left to right, on a tour of the Great Salt Lake in Farmington Bay on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News

Lots of options on the table for saving Great Salt Lake; but especially the simplest — use less water.

11-08-2022 by Sheri Quinn, Utah Public Radio | Ben Winslow, Fox 13 News

Fox 13 News and Utah Public Radio

Las Vegas ups the ante on turf buybacks: New Nevada law bans all ‘nonfunctional’ turf by 2026

11-08-2022 by Ben Winslow, Fox 13 News | Sheri Quinn, Utah Public Radio

Fox 13 News and Utah Public Radio

‘To Protect and Conserve’: Las Vegas has strict outdoor watering restrictions (with fines!) Should Utah do the same?

11-08-2022 by Ben Winslow, Fox 13 News | Sheri Quinn, Utah Public Radio

Fox 13

How much it might cost to build a pipeline to fill the Great Salt Lake

11-06-2022 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

The shore of the Great Salt Lake on Stansbury Island on Saturday, March 26, 2022. (Trent Nelson, The Salt Lake Tribune)

Utahns will have to brace for 'painful steps' as Great Salt Lake shrinks

11-06-2022 by Ben Winslow

Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Great Salt Lake's only North-South opening modified to control salinity

11-02-2022 by Max McDermott

Salt Lake Tribune

Another wild idea to save the Great Salt Lake: Pumping groundwater with nuclear energy

10-28-2022 by Leia Larsen

The Globe

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Lake questions: How does drought and population growth affect the Salt Lake crisis?

10-26-2022 by McCaulee Blackburn

Fox 13

Great Salt Lake so low, water level measurement system no longer works

10-26-2022 by Ben Winslow

Deseret News

A panoramic photo shows the sun setting over the Great Salt Lake on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. This photo was made with a drone which stitched together multiple photos, creating a single one.Ben B. Braun, Deseret News

The memory of Great Salt Lake runs deep, even if the water doesn’t

10-24-2022 by McKenzie Romero

KSL.com

How did Utahns react when the Great Salt Lake hit its previous record low in 1963?

10-24-2022 by Carter Williams

Fox 13

Property tax bill could end a free ride for many water users in Utah's drought

10-22-2022 by Ben Winslow

Deseret News

Phill Kiddoo, air pollution control officer for the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, shows journalists a tube that collects fine particulate, one measure of how much is being blown around in the wind, at an air quality monitoring site on the north shore of Mono Lake in Mono County, California, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News

Why isn't the state monitoring Great Salt Lake's dust?

10-12-2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Salt Lake Tribune

The rising sun reflects off of pools of water and brine that are part of the Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Program on the mostly dry lakebed in Inyo County, California, on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News

‘Just add water and stir’ — Owens Lake shows Utahns that even when salty lakes hit their lowest point, they can recover

10-12-2022 by Leia Larsen

Deseret News

Maj. Kristin “Beo” Wolfe flies during an F-35A Lightning II demonstration team show at Hill Air Force Base near Layton on Friday, June 3, 2022. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

Can the Great Salt Lake and its dust pollution derail Utah military operations? Officials look for answers.

10-12-2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Salt Lake Tribune

Mono Lake in Mono County, California, is pictured on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News

To balance its competing needs, is it time to follow Mono Lake's lead and mandate an elevation for the Great Salt Lake?

10-12-2022 by Leia Larsen

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