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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,...
Fox 13 News and Utah Public Radio
‘To Protect and Conserve’: Las Vegas has strict outdoor watering restrictions (with fines!) Should Utah do the same?
11-08-2022 by Ben Winslow, Fox 13 News | Sheri Quinn, Utah Public Radio
SUMMERLIN, Nevada — The side of Salvador Polanco Gamez’s SUV reads “to protect and conserve.” Bright yellow lights atop his vehicle are fl...
How much it might cost to build a pipeline to fill the Great Salt Lake
11-06-2022 by Ben Winslow
OGDEN, Utah — The idea of a pipeline from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Salt Lake has raised eyebrows and made some snicker. FOX 13 News...
Utahns will have to brace for 'painful steps' as Great Salt Lake shrinks
11-06-2022 by Ben Winslow
OGDEN, Utah — As the Great Salt Lake continues to decline rapidly, state officials warned that Utahns will have to significantly increase wa...
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Great Salt Lake's only North-South opening modified to control salinity
11-02-2022 by Max McDermott
Union Pacific’s Great Salt Lake Causeway is a 20-mile railroad crossing that physically separates the lake into North and South arms. The on...
Another wild idea to save the Great Salt Lake: Pumping groundwater with nuclear energy
10-28-2022 by Leia Larsen
A state representative has a lofty plan to save Utah’s imperiled lake and drought-stricken communities, but first, he wants around $50 milli...
Lake questions: How does drought and population growth affect the Salt Lake crisis?
10-26-2022 by McCaulee Blackburn
The Great Salt Lake Collaborative surveyed audience questions about the lake, and The Globe is publishing experts’ answers to your questions...
Great Salt Lake so low, water level measurement system no longer works
10-26-2022 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake has dropped to such a low level, the U.S. Geological Survey's measuring system at the marina no longer...
The memory of Great Salt Lake runs deep, even if the water doesn’t
10-24-2022 by McKenzie Romero
Why Utah reporters are teaming up with their competitors to tell the lake’s stories — and search for solutions At 98 years old, Alice Telf...
How did Utahns react when the Great Salt Lake hit its previous record low in 1963?
10-24-2022 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — Craig Miller was recently rifling through some old Utah water documents destined to be destroyed when he came across a pecu...
Property tax bill could end a free ride for many water users in Utah's drought
10-22-2022 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — A major bill unveiled on Utah's Capitol Hill could dramatically change how water is paid for in the state. The bill was...
Why isn't the state monitoring Great Salt Lake's dust?
10-12-2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Is Utah behind the curve when it comes to dust mitigation from the drying Great Salt Lake? Owens Lake in California, once the nation’s lar...
‘Just add water and stir’ — Owens Lake shows Utahns that even when salty lakes hit their lowest point, they can recover
10-12-2022 by Leia Larsen
Lone Pine, Calif. — Those from afar who hear the story of Owens Lake getting drained dry might consider it a tragedy. But those who have spe...
Can the Great Salt Lake and its dust pollution derail Utah military operations? Officials look for answers.
10-12-2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Lone Pine, Calif — At Owens Lake in California, once the nation’s most notorious site for dust pollution so intense you could taste it in yo...
To balance its competing needs, is it time to follow Mono Lake's lead and mandate an elevation for the Great Salt Lake?
10-12-2022 by Leia Larsen
In September 1981, a group of 11 cyclists collected vials of water from a Los Angeles utility’s decorative reflecting pool and biked 350 mil...
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