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Great Salt Lake experts take to the sky to view lake's recent growth
05-04-2023 by Mythili Gubbi
This season’s record snowpack means good news for the Great Salt Lake. It has already risen a few feet, and the runoff has barely just start...
What Utah cities have water-efficient landscape ordinances?
05-04-2023 by Heather May
Utah lawmakers approved spending $10 million in the past two legislative sessions on turf buyback programs, to get Utahns to rip our their g...
Utah launches statewide turf grass buyback program as it seeks water-use reformation
05-04-2023 by Carter Williams
WEST JORDAN — This year's record snowpack has drastically reduced a drought that really began to impact Utah by the end of spring three year...
Utah increases incentives to get you to ditch your lawn
05-04-2023 by Ben Winslow
WEST JORDAN, Utah — The state of Utah is increasing the amount of incentives being offered to convince you to get rid of lawn you don't use...
Great American Drought: Searching for Solutions in Israel
05-04-2023 by Heather May
Journalist Ben Winslow went to Israel in search of solutions to the U.S. megadrought in a country that has thrived despite being built in a...
What Utah can take back from Israel when it comes to water savings, and what gets lost in translation
05-02-2023 by Ben Winslow
LAKE KINNERET, Israel — The delegation of Utah officials, lawmakers and researchers have been impressed with what Israel has accomplished wh...
Strawberries in the Desert: From drip irrigation to vertical gardens, Utah officials learn how Israel does more with less water
05-02-2023 by Ben Winslow
NEGEV DESERT, Israel — A group of Utah Mormon Republican lawmakers walk into a Jewish socialist kibbutz in the middle of the desert. It’s...
Utah leaders look to Israel to help save the Great Salt Lake
04-30-2023 by Ben Winslow
TEL AVIV, Israel — Utah Department of Natural Resources Executive Director Joel Ferry reads an Israeli nursery rhyme to the men and women wh...
Why did Utah leaders go to Israel?
04-30-2023 by Heather May and Ben Winslow
One of the driest countries in the world, Israel once struggled to find enough freshwater to sustain its growing population in the midst of...
YALLA! How I ended up on a whirlwind trip to Israel for the Great Salt Lake Collaborative
04-27-2023 by Ben Winslow
I had two days to prepare for a 7,000-mile trip to Israel with a delegation from Utah. When Heather May, director of the Great Salt Lake...
50 million gallons of water begins daily diversion to Great Salt Lake
04-25-2023 by Jeff Tavvs
DRAPER, Utah — While things have been looking up for the Great Salt Lake recently, the body of water synonymous with the Beehive State began...
Come sail away: Great Salt Lake Marina in business as water rises
04-25-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Utah state parks plan for open boat ramps at popular reservoirs After being forced to dock their boats at the Great Salt Lake State Park a...
Utah water district to redirect 50M gallons of water to Great Salt Lake every day
04-25-2023 by Carter Williams
DRAPER — Gene Shawcroft pulled a walkie-talkie up to his mouth and called for his employees to open a spill gate located near the Point of t...
Utah lawmakers plan to revisit how you pay for water
04-24-2023 by Ben Winslow
A major piece of legislation dealing with water use and conservation is set to return for a battle on Utah's Capitol Hill. HERRIMAN, Utah...
Where is all the floodwater along the Wasatch Front going to end up?
04-20-2023 by Jacob Scholl
Floodwater flowing through northern Utah should likely end up in the same place — the state’s most recognizable landmark. All along the W...
Great Salt Lake is a 'pit stop' for 12 million birds
04-20-2023 by Anna Johnson
The wetlands of Great Salt Lake host 12 million birds — over 300 different species — every year as they migrate along the Pacific Flyway...
USU landscape architecture students are 'All Hands on Deck' to save Great Salt Lake
04-20-2023 by Max McDermott
On Friday, USU’s landscape architecture seniors are presenting their capstone projects under the theme of “All Hands on Deck,” an effort aim...
What oily, sticky tar seeps can teach us about saving Great Salt Lake
04-20-2023 by Ciara Hulet and Emily Pohlsander
Near Spiral Jetty on the northeast shore of Great Salt Lake, there is a phenomenon known as tar seeps. Sticky, black oil bubbles up to the d...
Great Salt Lake is up over 3 feet — but it has a long way to go to healthy
04-20-2023 by Leia Larsen
There are signs the ecological wonder has started to recover, but it remains in a precarious place. Utah’s phenomenal, record-breaking wi...
Boats back in the Great Salt Lake Marina thanks to rising water levels
04-19-2023 by Melanie Porter and Jenna Bree
Less than a year ago, the Great Salt Lake Marina was a ghost town. But after a winter season with record-breaking amounts of snow, hints of...
Reporting Project: Great Salt Lake Wetlands
04-11-2023 by Aimee Van Tatenhove
The Great Salt Lake Collaborative has created an interactive website to help Utahns understand the critical role Great Salt Lake and its wet...
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