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Great Salt Lake rally brings Native and youth voices to Utah’s Capitol Hill
11-16-2023 by Aimee Van Tatenhove
“We were born in water. We were delivered in water. We know what water is. Water sustained us from conception, and water sustains us as we g...
Great Salt Lake official offers upbeat assessment, at least in the near term
11-16-2023 by Tim Vandenack
Looking forward, a few things give Great Salt Lake Commissioner Brian Steed optimism about the near-term prospects of boosting the lake’s wa...
Why Great Salt Lake commissioner says refilling the lake will likely take longer than 5 years
11-16-2023 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake is in a much better spot than it was this time a year ago, as it reached its current all-time low. It...
Utah lawmaker wants to pump millions of gallons of groundwater near the Great Salt Lake
11-16-2023 by Leia Larsen
A leading politician who called out companies for wanting to use more water in an over-tapped system finds an exception of his own. Rep. M...
Utah is purchasing land for an eventual water pipeline in Box Elder
11-16-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
The pipeline is for future water deliveries A future pipeline for water deliveries to the growing Wasatch Front may be decades off, but t...
Bills getting conserved water to Great Salt Lake, bans on outdoor watering introduced
11-13-2023 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — A series of bills have been unveiled on Utah's Capitol Hill addressing some issues with water conservation, including ensur...
So far, Utah’s water banking is showing the path beyond ‘use it or lose it’
11-10-2023 by David Condos
In a dry state like Utah, there’s not always enough water to go around. But when there is extra water, how exactly do you spread it around?...
Great Salt Lake wetlands are the latest battleground with the Utah Inland Port
11-10-2023 by Sean Higgins
Opponents of the Utah Inland Port say the shipping and logistics hub is the single greatest threat to the Great Salt Lake’s wetlands. Stop...
Great Salt Lake goes to school
11-10-2023 by Heather May
The University of Utah’s College of Humanities is partnering with the award-winning Great Salt Lake Collaborative to give students real worl...
Audio: How Utah seeks to improve ag water optimization accountability
11-10-2023 by Sheri Quinn
Utah is spending more than $200 million to get agriculture to switch to water saving technologies. But is the saved water getting to the Gre...
Audio: Agricultural community turns to optimization
11-10-2023 by Sheri Quinn
Utah program helps farmers grow crops with less water. Is it helping the Great Salt Lake?
Video: Where's the water? Utah can't exactly track saved water from agriculture efficiencies
11-10-2023 by Ben Winslow
While Utah’s Agricultural Water Optimization Program has the potential to save tens of thousands of acre-feet of water annually, Hannah Free...
Utah Inland Port board approves new wetlands protection policy. Here's what it does
11-09-2023 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — Members of the Utah Inland Port Authority's board of directors voted Monday to adopt a new policy that the agency says will...
Lake lost almost 2 feet of '23 winter snowmelt to evaporation
11-09-2023 by Adam Small
SALT LAKE CITY— The Great Salt Lake’s wetland areas are getting a boost. $8.5 million has been awarded to various government and nonprofit g...
Volunteers remove invasive species, plant native trees at site of infamous Bear River Massacre
11-09-2023 by Mythili Gubbi
PRESTON, Idaho — About 400 volunteers on Saturday played a special role in transforming a sacred space and giving it new life. “We’re at t...
'Buffer zone' between Great Salt Lake and inland port gets financial backing
11-09-2023 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — A proposed "buffer zone" between the Great Salt Lake and encroaching development has gotten a major financial donation. T...
Compass Minerals to halt Great Salt Lake lithium project, at least for now
11-09-2023 by Tim Vandenack
Compass Minerals will halt a planned lithium operation at its western Weber County facility that has drawn intense scrutiny and criticism fr...
Video: Utah is going big on helping farmers grow crops with less water, but can it help the Great Salt Lake
11-09-2023 by Ben Winslow
Jaemye and Bryan Brandon are getting ready for the holidays. String lights are transforming their picturesque farm into something straight o...
Search Utah ag companies that received state funds to save water
11-08-2023 by Heather May
This data comes from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food. The Great Salt Lake Collaborative requested records of the state's Agricul...
Utah is spending $265 million for farms to save water. But is the water getting to the Great Salt Lake?
11-08-2023 by Carter Williams, KSL.com and Ben Winslow, FOX 13 News
TAYLORSVILLE — While Utah’s Agricultural Water Optimization Program has the potential to save tens of thousands of acre-feet of water annual...
How we did the story about how farmers are saving water
11-08-2023 by Heather May
The Great Salt Lake Collaborative — a solutions journalism organization made up of local newsrooms — requested data from the Utah Department...
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