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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
A drying sea half a world away carries a message for those worried about the Great Salt Lake
01-18-2024 by Levi Bridges, KUER | Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune
Aral District, Kazakhstan • When Akshabak Batimova was growing up, her father left their village in western Kazakhstan each morning to fish
Audio: Kazakhstan’s drying Aral Sea carries a message for those worried about the Great Salt Lake
01-18-2024 by Levi Bridges
Will Utahns need to adapt to a smaller, dustier salt lake? Or can the watershed unite to reverse its decline? Great Salt Lake is often com
Video: Drying sea half a world away carries message for those worried about Great Salt Lake
01-18-2024 by Spencer Joseph
The retreat of the Aral Sea serves as a cautionary tale for the potential fate of the Great Salt Lake. If Utahns fail to manage the stresses
Utah unveils plans to save the Great Salt Lake, but does it do enough?
01-18-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — Tim Davis believes Utah must do everything it possibly can to help the Great Salt Lake avoid a repeat of 2022. The lake p
Can Utah restore the Great Salt Lake in time for the 2034 Olympics? Here’s what experts say.
01-18-2024 by Leia Larsen
The 2002 Winter Games marks the last time the lake’s elevation hovered in the safe zone. The Great Salt Lake remains in a dangerous place,
Utah bill to reduce turf on government landscape within Great Salt Lake Basin clears first hurdle
01-18-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — A bill that limits the use of "nonfunctional turf" for new government construction within the Great Salt Lake Basin passed
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