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Can replacing a pipeline save water and combat avian botulism on Great Salt Lake? A new proposal thinks so
02-06-2024 by Adam Small
Editor’s note: This story has been updated for clarity. SALT LAKE CITY — Most RFA or ‘request for appropriation’ hearings on Capitol Hill...
Great Salt Lake leaders ask reservoir managers to release excess water
02-06-2024 by Adam Small
SALT LAKE CITY— Great Salt Lake Commissioner Brian Steed and his office are reaching out to reservoir managers to see if they have any water...
A major bill is introduced to help the Great Salt Lake
02-02-2024 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — A significant bill has been introduced in the Utah State Legislature aimed at helping reverse the Great Salt Lake's decline...
Is water being ‘saved’ for the Great Salt Lake really ending up there?
02-01-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Utah lawmaker presses measure to prioritize water for the Great Salt Lake Rep. Casey Snider, R-Paradise, wants to “color” the water saved...
Lawmakers turn to Utah Lake to help rescue Great Salt Lake. Will dredging be part of the solution?
02-01-2024 by Leia Larsen
Former governor says the plan will be state led, not influenced by a developer. Lawmakers are looking to Utah Lake to help refill the Grea...
Invasive phragmites are needlessly sucking water out of Great Salt Lake
02-01-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Proposal outlines stepped-up removal program for plant As Utah lawmakers, advocates, state agencies and researchers continue to look for a...
How a major challenge to efforts to help Great Salt Lake may soon be fixed
02-01-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah leaders have, in recent years, put millions of dollars into water leasing and agricultural water optimization programs...
Utah lawmakers consider funding millions for Great Salt Lake, water conservation
01-30-2024 by Ben Winslow
The Utah State Legislature is being asked to spend millions on water conservation efforts and try a new way to get water into the Great Salt...
Utah lawmaker seeks study to see if Utah Lake can help the Great Salt Lake
01-30-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers are now eying a study to see if adjustments to a second lake could help get water into the struggling Great...
Funding sought for research, turf buy back program, split season leases
01-30-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Water funding requests get a hearing at Capitol For the third consecutive year, water is once again a dominant issue at the state Legislat...
Utah explores split-season leases as a possible piece to Great Salt Lake solution
01-30-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — Jim Bowcutt acknowledges that fallowing had always been considered the second F-letter word among farmers. Fallowing is a...
Water conservation bills begin to advance at Utah State Capitol
01-24-2024 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — A series of bills focused on water conservation are advancing in the Utah State Legislature. On Tuesday, the Senate Natur...
Lawmakers still think a pipeline will help save the Great Salt Lake
01-24-2024 by Leia Larsen
Lake commissioner outlines his plan to adapt to the basin’s water shortages. As lawmakers contemplate how to spend billions in taxpayer do...
Money sought to map groundwater in Utah’s Cache Valley
01-23-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Area has not been mapped since 1990s, groundwater is diminishing Cache Valley is highly dependent on groundwater from springs and the vall...
Panel votes to exempt small water districts of 2,500 or less from metering
01-23-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Panel votes to exempt small water districts of 2,500 or less from metering A committee of lawmakers voted Tuesday to potentially broaden t...
What is a person? Here's why Utah is considering a new bill to define it
01-23-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — Rep. Walt Brooks, R-St. George, says he was approached not too long ago by constituents with examples of peculiar legal cas...
Great Salt Lake commissioner to ask for reservoir releases
01-22-2024 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — The state's Great Salt Lake Commissioner plans to ask local water districts to release some water stored up in reservoirs t...
Great Salt Lake 'stands to benefit' from a normal snowpack this year
01-22-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake remains about 5½ to 8 feet below its minimum healthy level, depending on what side of it you're viewing...
More than 1,200 rally to pressure Utah leaders to save the Great Salt Lake
01-22-2024 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — People in brine shrimp costumes danced as the crowd chanted and sang on the steps of the Utah State Capitol. They waved s...
What will happen when the Great Salt Lake disappears? This video obituary anticipates that not-too-distant day.
01-22-2024 by Bethany Baker
Imagining a day in the not-too-distant future when Utah will no longer be home to the Great Salt Lake, Bonnie Baxter reads an obituary she p...
Advocates support saving Great Salt Lake with daily vigils outside capitol
01-18-2024 by Scott McKane
SALT LAKE CITY — As the 2024 legislature is underway in Utah, advocates are turning down the noise to participate in daily vigils focused on...
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