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LDS Church adds water-saving tech to churches

your contributions. We are funded through donations. You can make a tax-deductible donation here. Also in this issue: LDS Church adding more water-saving controllers BLM efforts to control invasive plants A recap of lake legislative efforts Lagging...
March 14, 2025

Why save the Great Salt Lake? A special report

This photo from 1930 shows a promotional sign at Saltair. In 1893 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built Saltair on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, sixteen miles from downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. It was sold to a private individual in 1906. The main attraction was swimming in the Great Salt Lake. There was also a roller coaster, a merry-go-round, a ferris wheel, midway games, bicycle races, touring vaudeville companies, rodeos, bullfights, boat rides on the lake, firework display and even hot-air balloons. In 1925 it burned to the ground. A new pavilion was designed and built but it never regained its popularity. It closed for good in 1958. It was again destroyed by fire in November of 1970. Photo used by permission, Uintah County Library Regional History Center, all rights reserved.
why it might be hard to find drought-tolerant plants in Utah in this May 2023 Axios Salt Lake piece. Find out what the LDS Church says it is doing to reduce water use on its properties in this March 2023 FOX 13 News story. And about its new pilot...
November 30, 2023

Fixing the lake could pave the way to solving Utah’s mental health crisis

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jake Young, landscape architect designed this park strip in Farmington, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023.
at new meetinghouses and temples, including the Salt Lake Temple. But we don’t all have the financial resources of the LDS Church. And once all those lawns are installed, the added barrier of having to remove a lawn to replace it with water-wise...
November 28, 2023

LDS Church says it plans more Great Salt Lake, water conservation measures

West-facing rendering of the new Church Office Building plaza. The new grounds will feature more perennials, less grass and 30% more trees. Turfgrass is being reduced by 35% and annuals by 50%. All turfgrass will receive 35-40% less water from June to September. Photo courtesy Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Following a massive donation of water shares to help save the Great Salt Lake, a high-ranking official with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said they were exploring ways to do more. SALT LAKE CITY — Following a massive donation of water...
March 23, 2023

LDS Church to permanently donate thousands of acre-feet of water to the Great Salt Lake

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Angel Moroni atop The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Bountiful Temple, Dec. 10, 2022, with the shrinking Great Salt Lake visible in the background.
The gift has been months in the making, and represents the first major private sector commitment to saving the imperiled lake. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of the wealthiest and most influential institutions in Utah, plans to...
March 16, 2023

LDS Church donates water to Great Salt Lake

A canal that ferries water from the LDS Church to the Great Salt Lake. Photo: Ben Winslow, FOX 13 News
This story has been updated: SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a major property owner in the state of Utah, has donated a massive amount of water shares to the Great Salt Lake. Utah's Department of Natural Resources...
March 15, 2023

How the LDS Church could prevent its headquarters from becoming a toxic wasteland

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Angel Moroni atop The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Bountiful Temple is shown in December 2022 with the shriveling Great Salt Lake in the background. A dying Great Salt Lake could make the historic home of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uninhabitable. What is the Utah-based faith doing to prevent it — and what do environmentalists think it should do?
Soren Simonsen, executive director of the Jordan River Commission speaking in September 2022, says it's time for the LDS Church to "get out of the turf maintenance business.” The church holds some of Utah’s oldest water rights, says Soren Simonsen, a...
February 9, 2023

Here’s how the Great Saltair became a relic

The site of the old Saltair resort — actually, three of them — can give a visitor the feeling that something is haunting them. The historical sites are somewhat reminiscent of a ghost town, and the evidence grows the farther out one journeys. Remnants...
August 22, 2022

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