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12-26-2024 by Becca Green
As we head into 2025, the team at Great Salt Lake Collaborative would like to thank each of you for taking the time to be engaged on these i...
Utah argues US Magnesium is ‘unable or unwilling’ to protect the Great Salt Lake as judge appoints outsider to run the company
12-20-2024 by Megan Banta, Shannon Sollitt and Sheila McCann
US Magnesium says it stopped building a retaining wall meant to keep toxic waste out of the Great Salt Lake because it’s no longer mining ma...
Utah wants to shore up its Colorado River share with a water ‘savings account’
12-19-2024 by David Condos
Coby Hunt’s farm field near the southeast Utah town of Green River would normally be filled with alfalfa growing up to his knees. This yea...
What happened to the Great Salt Lake this year
12-18-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Focused funding, donations of water, new laws and wetlands protection are highlights from 2024 The levels of the Great Salt Lake may be in...
Utah, Great Salt Lake trust award $5.4M in more wetlands improvement projects
12-17-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake's rebound is still a work in progress, but the lake's vital ecosystem is about to receive another boost...
Why work has stopped on a wall to keep ‘highly acidic’ waste away from the Great Salt Lake
12-16-2024 by Shannon Sollitt and Megan Banta
US Magnesium was required to install a massive underground wall to keep “highly acidic” waste away from the lake, under agreements with the...
What are the solutions to save the Great Salt Lake? Here are five ideas
12-13-2024 by Heather May
Editor's note: This list of potential solutions was made for students who are learning about the Great Salt Lake through a partnership the G...
Southern Utah looks to expand water reuse, 'ultra-efficient' landscaping
12-13-2024 by Ben Winslow and Chris Reed
ST. GEORGE, Utah — Water managers in this desert community are looking to make some big policy shifts in an effort to stretch resources a li...
U.S. Supreme Court hears Uinta Basin Railway case and challenge to major environmental law
12-13-2024 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether to rein in a major environmental law in a case involving 88-miles...
Is Utah’s port authority plan the latest threat to the Great Salt Lake?
12-12-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Brian Moench says the Utah Inland Port Authority’s plans for new development spanning the Wasatch Front and multiple counties is a death kne...
New report highlights Utah State research on Utah's environment
12-10-2024 by Erin Lewis
The USU Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air recently released their annual report to the governor and legislature. The 2...
New data could tell us how much of Utah’s water simply disappears into the air
12-10-2024 by David Condos
For all the talk about how much water exits Utah through the Colorado River, that’s not the primary way water leaves the state. Much of it s...
St. George has cut a slice of turf from its golf game — and is eyeing more
12-10-2024 by David Condos
On the edge of St. George’s Sunbrook Golf Course, manicured greens give way to a mound of gray rock dotted with small palm trees, yuccas and...
Deep divisions on display at Colorado River summit
12-06-2024 by Ben Winslow
LAS VEGAS — Disagreements between the seven states over who gets what out of the Colorado River spilled out into public during a pair of bac...
Utah's idea to swap Colorado River water for desalination plant money may not be so crazy after all
12-05-2024 by Ben Winslow
LAS VEGAS — An unusual idea floated by the president of the Utah State Senate to get more shares of Colorado River water is intriguing Calif...
Negotiations moving slowly in new deals governing the Colorado River
12-05-2024 by Ben Winslow
LAS VEGAS — In the negotiations over new agreements managing the Colorado River, the people involved in the high-stakes talks describe thing...
Updated: 'A big step': Feds to direct $50M toward Great Salt Lake preservation projects
12-02-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah officials have already poured tens of millions of dollars toward Great Salt Lake preservation efforts in recent years,...
$50M from Inflation Reduction Act will be spent to deliver more water to the Great Salt Lake
12-02-2024 by Megan Banta
State officials say they’ll also leverage another $50 million in funds — totaling $100 million — to enhance ongoing conservation efforts and...
How a $50 million investment will mitigate drought in the Great Salt Lake Basin
12-02-2024 by Michael Martin
SALT LAKE CITY — The Bureau of Reclamation has announced a $50 million investment from the Inflation Reduction Act for a water delivery prog...
Think Utah farmers should do without irrigation? Here’s what that looks like
11-26-2024 by David Condos
Shay Lewis waded into a stand of thigh-high wheat, snatched one of the seed heads and tossed some grain into his mouth. “Those are plump k...
Federal funding to bring new stream gates to Great Salt Lake
11-26-2024 by Adam Small
REESE, Utah — The Bureau of Reclamation is giving $3 million to help water managers better track Great Salt Lake’s incoming water. Water m...
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