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Is this what finally prompts action to save the Great Salt Lake? Activist and researchers hope so.
08-28-2024 by Megan Banta and Jose Davila IV
One community activist on Salt Lake County’s west side is ready for solutions, not just studies, about air quality and environmental injusti...
Audio: How a business, water district, and farm are sending water to Great Salt Lake
08-26-2024 by Erin Lewis
Water conservation efforts across the state have increased over recent years. We visited a business, a farm, and a water district, all utili...
The summer heat could cost the Great Salt Lake more water than normal, lose much of its year-long progress, officials say
08-26-2024 by Adam Small
SALT LAKE CITY — It’s safe to say the brutal start to this summer along the Wasatch Front has hit Great Salt Lake especially hard. Deputy...
Ahead of September book discussion event, Utah Poet Laureate shares the role of Great Salt Lake in her work
08-26-2024 by Mariah Maynes
SALT LAKE CITY — Lisa Bickmore, Utah’s Poet Laureate, will lead a discussion of Terry Tempest Williams’ book ‘Refuge: An Unnatural History o...
Video: How water saving, conservation efforts are helping benefit Great Salt Lake
08-21-2024 by Chris Arnold
CORINNE, Utah — The Great Salt Lake Commissioner says two great water years have put the Great Salt Lake in a much better spot than it was b...
Audio: A group of women come together through rafting Western rivers
08-21-2024 by Erin Lewis and Sheri Quinn
There is a group of women who have come together each year for decades to raft western rivers. Zan Merrill is one of those women. “Rivers ar...
Utah opens up another $6.5M for projects that benefit Great Salt Lake wetlands
08-21-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — Projects to enhance or protect over 13,000 acres of Great Salt Lake wetlands are ongoing. While that work continues, memb...
Several Southern Utah residents will be opening their yards to show off ‘creative’ water-wise landscaping
08-19-2024 by Mori Kessler
ST. GEORGE — As the pursuit to replace “lazy lawns” with desert-friendly, water-efficient landscaping continues in Washington County and acr...
Video: From flames to floods: How wildfires could impact the Southern Utah water supply
08-19-2024 by Mori Kessler
ST. GEORGE — Need another reason to avoid starting a wildfire? The danger of wildfires goes beyond turning forests and homes to ash; they al...
Video: Researchers using spiders to better understand Great Salt Lake pollution
08-14-2024 by Mike Anderson
SALT LAKE CITY — If you’re like most people, you might choose to stay away from spots like this. But maybe not, if you’re a scientist. “I...
How water moves through the Great Salt Lake drainage
08-14-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
A recently completed yearlong analysis probed how water moves through the Great Salt Lake basin and how to better understand what improvemen...
Video: For the first time in 30 years, a bird census is being conducted on the Great Salt Lake
08-14-2024 by Ben Winslow
ANTELOPE ISLAND, Utah — Conservationists and volunteers fanned out across the Great Salt Lake for a new census of migrating birds that stop...
Radioactive tailings near the Colorado River close to full removal
08-08-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Sixteen million tons of radioactive uranium tailings once sat near the banks of the Colorado River, putting the waterway in peril of contami...
One Utah city will offer prizes to get people to conserve more water
08-05-2024 by Ben Winslow
MILLCREEK, Utah — In an effort to get more residents to conserve water, Millcreek city leaders are launching a game. The city has agreed t...
Great Salt Lake's dry lakebed 'big' producer of greenhouse gas emissions, study finds
07-29-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — While researchers continue to investigate the effects that dust from the Great Salt Lake might have on communities, a new s...
Great Salt Lake is a major source of greenhouse gases, study says
07-27-2024 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake is a big contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study. The Royal Ontario Museum...
Another Lake Powell pipeline proposal — but for Arizona tribes
07-26-2024 by Anastasia Hufham
Proposed legislation would bring water from the reservoir to tribal communities who lack access to drinking water, Arizona lawmakers say...
Utah received money to study the harmful effects of Great Salt Lake dust. It just hasn’t spent it.
07-26-2024 by Anastasia Hufham
The Utah Legislature provided funding for increased dust monitoring in 2023. As the Great Salt Lake shrinks, dust from its lakebeds impact...
The gap between the Great Salt Lake's arms is closing. What does that mean for salinity?
07-26-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — The difference between the Great Salt Lake's northern and southern arms continues to shrink, but the state office tasked wi...
PBS Utah: Drought and the Colorado River
07-25-2024 by Utah Insight by PBS Utah
How can Utah best negotiate water rights with a growing population and ongoing drought? Water storage at Lake Powell and Lake Mead is curren...
Utah’s 4th-largest city isn’t a part of the state’s grass replacement plan. Why?
07-25-2024 by Tilda Wilson
Utah launched its Landscape Conversion Incentive Program in 2023. It offers a rebate to homeowners who switch out their grass with more wate...
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