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Lake questions: Can we bring water from the ocean to the Salt Lake?
12-02-2022 by McCaulee Blackburn
The Great Salt Lake Collaborative surveyed audience questions about the lake, and The Globe is publishing experts’ answers to your questions...
Bill upending how Utahns pay for water gets dammed up in the legislature
12-02-2022 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — A bill that would have dramatically changed how Utahns pay for water will not be advancing in the state legislature this ye...
To help the Great Salt Lake, Utah may pay farmers to not grow crops
11-28-2022 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — As the Great Salt Lake moves closer to ecosystem collapse, the state of Utah is taking steps to try to quickly get more wa...
Antelope Island on life support due to shrinking Great Salt Lake, experts say
11-28-2022 by Dan Spindle
DAVIS COUNTY, Utah — It’s supposed to be surrounded by water, but right now, Antelope Island as we know it is on life support — suffering fr...
Gov. Cox put new water rights on hold. Will it actually help the Great Salt Lake?
11-28-2022 by Leia Larsen
The state engineer receives a deluge of applications for new diversions each year, but it appears many of them would be exempt from the paus...
Great Salt Lake levels stabilize — for now
11-22-2022 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — The levels of the Great Salt Lake have started to stabilize for now, according to a new drought report released by Utah's D...
The Great Salt Lake’s ecological collapse has begun
11-20-2022 by Leia Larsen
Scientists note changes to the food web they’ve never seen before, which could lead to endangered species listings and other disasters at Ut...
Cox issues proclamation cutting off some water diversions to help the Great Salt Lake
11-18-2022 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — Governor Spencer Cox has issued a proclamation suspending any new water appropriations in the Bear, Jordan and Weber river...
New initiative aims to get people to 'fall in love' with the Great Salt Lake again
11-18-2022 by Carter Williams
SOUTH JORDAN — The shrinking of the Great Salt Lake isn't only a Utah problem in Adam Putnam's eyes. It's an issue that may have serious imp...
New research and initiatives to help save the Great Salt Lake
11-18-2022 by Ben Winslow
LOGAN, Utah — New research and environmental initiatives are under way to offer potential solutions to saving the Great Salt Lake. Dr. Joa...
Competing news outlets are working together to save the Great Salt Lake. Is it working?
11-18-2022 by McKenzie Romero
Do you feel like you’ve read/seen/heard more news about the Great Salt Lake in the past several months than you have in, like, years? You’...
Students get expansive Great Salt Lake experience
11-17-2022 by Sydnee Gonzalez
SYRACUSE — "How worried should we be?" "If people see that there's less water, why keep taking it?" "Will it get worse?" These were so...
What role can history play in saving the Great Salt Lake, solving Utah's water woes?
11-16-2022 by Carter Williams
PROVO — John Wesley Powell offered a poignant message for Western U.S. communities when he was the featured speaker in a room full of develo...
Environmental group says changing Utah’s tax laws could put 20% more water in Great Salt Lake
11-16-2022 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — A new study released by an environmental group claims that 20% more water could be put into the Great Salt Lake if property...
Las Vegas vs. Great Salt Lake water districts: This graphic explains the differences
11-13-2022 by Wendy Ogata
Water Conservation: Utah vs. Las Vegas The Southern Nevada Water Authority is a leader in water conservation. But can their approach be co...
Video: Las Vegas incentivizes removal of green turf. Should Utah?
11-13-2022 by Ben Winslow
Sin City's strict water conservation measures might be a good example for Utah to follow in the drought. As part of the Great Salt Lake C...
Video: Las Vegas has tough restrictions on outdoor landscaping. Would it work in Utah?
11-13-2022 by Ben Winslow
As the Great Salt Lake continues to decline, water conservation is more urgently needed. But is Utah doing enough? As part of the Great S...
Utah officials applauds Nevada’s water conservation measures; cautions against direct comparisons
11-08-2022 by Wendy Ogata
Golf course “water budgets.” Pool size limits. A complete ban on grass landscaping. Full-time water wasting investigators. The Southern Neva...
You can still have an “oasis” in the desert
11-08-2022 by Sheri Quinn
Removing all high-water-use plants is not the panacea in times of rising temperatures and droughts across the southwest, according to a new...
Utah Public Radio and Fox 13 News
Lots of options on the table for saving Great Salt Lake; but especially the simplest — use less water.
11-08-2022 by Sheri Quinn, Utah Public Radio | Ben Winslow, Fox 13 News
LAS VEGAS — Can Salt Lake City measure up to Sin City’s winning water-conservation model? The drought-fueled decline in the southwest’s w...
Fox 13 News and Utah Public Radio
Las Vegas ups the ante on turf buybacks: New Nevada law bans all ‘nonfunctional’ turf by 2026
11-08-2022 by Ben Winslow, Fox 13 News | Sheri Quinn, Utah Public Radio
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Patricia Council stood on her front yard and smiled, glad to see her lawn finally go. “I decided to convert it,...
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