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Video: Drying sea half a world away carries message for those worried about Great Salt Lake

Fishermen drag a boat through the shallow waters of the Aral Sea in western Kazakhstan to a point where the water becomes deep enough to start the engines. Abduaziz Madyarov / Special For The Great Salt Lake Collaborative
sea, it could decimate the state’s lucrative brine shrimp industry, cause global bird populations to crash and create toxic dust storms that would gravely affect the health of residents across the Wasatch Front and beyond. Watch the FOX 13 News report...
January 18, 2024

Utah unveils plans to save the Great Salt Lake, but does it do enough?

SALT LAKE CITY — Tim Davis believes Utah must do everything it possibly can to help the Great Salt Lake avoid a repeat of 2022. The lake plummeted to an all-time low amid ongoing extreme drought conditions that gripped the West, exposing a slew of...
January 18, 2024

Doctors urge Utah lawmakers to take immediate action on Great Salt Lake

Utahns are already choking on dangerous lake dust, their open letter notes. Days before the Utah Legislature is set to convene, doctors have signed a warning about the public health consequences if the Great Salt Lake continues to shrivel. The...
January 11, 2024

'No single solution will cure the lake,' Great Salt Lake strike team report says

she had hope political leaders would do more, but she worried it would not be quickly enough to avoid health impacts from toxic dust. Environmental groups are suing Utah for not taking drastic enough measures to ensure the Great Salt Lake gets water....
January 11, 2024

New proposal pays Utah farmers to send water to Great Salt Lake

low in 2022 as a result of water diversion, drought and climate change. It presents an ecological threat to Utah with toxic dust from an exposed lake bed (arsenic is a naturally occurring mineral in the lake), reduced snowpack and impacts to public...
January 4, 2024

Study says a GSL pipeline is not only incredibly expensive, but very polluting

of water development, drought and a changing climate. It presents a significant ecological threat to northern Utah with toxic dust storms, reduced snowpack and harms to public health and wildlife. The idea of a pipeline from the Pacific Ocean to the...
January 4, 2024

Utah asks for Great Salt Lake lawsuit to be dismissed

drought and climate change. The Great Salt Lake's dramatic declines create an ecologic crisis for the state with toxic dust (arsenic is a naturally occurring mineral in the lake bed), impacts to public health and wildlife and even harms to Utah's...
December 21, 2023

Flurry of water reuse claims threatens to take more water from Great Salt Lake

would harm the public welfare. And depleting more water that would otherwise reach the Great Salt Lake, turning it into a toxic dust bowl and source of endangered species listings, is arguably not beneficial or good for the welfare of Utahns. “Whether...
December 21, 2023

Cox favors 'healthy range' for Great Salt Lake, seeks to address toxic dust

SALT LAKE CITY — A critical report on the future of the Great Salt Lake has been delivered to Governor Spencer Cox and legislative leadership. Now, the governor will have to decide on a course of action. The report, prepared by newly appointed Great...
December 21, 2023

The world needs to feed 10 billion people. The Great Salt Lake could teach us how.

Aerial view of harvester and speeder boats deploying containment booms in preparation for harvesting brine shrimp (Artemia) on Great Salt Lake. Courtesy Great Salt Lake Artemia.
beings both currently living, and those yet to be born. “In addition to significant local and regional impacts such as toxic dust and lack of snow along the Wasatch Front, there are more far-reaching implications,” Anderson says. “It truly affects...
December 5, 2023

A highly-anticipated report on saving the Great Salt Lake is delivered to Utah leaders

of water diversion, drought and a changing climate. It presents an ecological and economic threat to the state with toxic dust storms (arsenic and other harmful chemicals are naturally occurring in the exposed lake bed), reduced snowpack, as well as...
December 5, 2023

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.
intense public scrutiny by Utahns and the world alike, the focus has been on the disaster posed by the disappearing lake. Toxic dust storms, food chain collapse, bird die-offs. But what if we flip the question and wonder: What opportunities open up if...
November 30, 2023

Study shines more light on toxins in Great Salt Lake dust

Research group claims the lake’s sediment could cause neural disease, but local scientist raises concerns over research methods. Contaminants from toxic algal blooms may be blowing in the Great Salt Lake’s dust. Researchers with the Jackson Hole,...
November 16, 2023

Great Salt Lake rally brings Native and youth voices to Utah’s Capitol Hill

A large wooden clock depicting Great Salt Lake's demise was a central art piece at a rally Nov. 11, 2023. Aimee Van Tatenhove, UPR
is expected to reach a new low next summer, further shrinking important wetland habitat for millions of birds and blowing toxic dust onto communities across the Wasatch Front. Event organizer Will Munger, also a graduate student in USU’s Department of...
November 16, 2023

Utah lawmaker wants to pump millions of gallons of groundwater near the Great Salt Lake

A leading politician who called out companies for wanting to use more water in an over-tapped system finds an exception of his own. Rep. Mike Schultz, the Utah House majority leader, has filed two applications to drill wells near the Great Salt Lake....
November 16, 2023

Bills getting conserved water to Great Salt Lake, bans on outdoor watering introduced

as a result of water diversion, drought and climate change. It has the potential to be an ecological catastrophe with toxic dust storms (arsenic is a naturally occurring chemical in the lake), harms to public health and wildlife and the economy (there...
November 13, 2023

Utah proposes new rules on lithium extraction to protect the Great Salt Lake

low last year as a result of water diversion, drought and climate change, presents a significant threat to the state with toxic dust, reduced snowpack and harms to public health, wildlife and the economy. Utah political leaders have made saving the...
October 18, 2023

What the Utah legislature has planned to help the Great Salt Lake

drought and climate change. It has alarmed political leaders and the public alike as a dried up lake can result in toxic dust storms (arsenic is a naturally-occurring mineral in the lake), reduced snowpack, and significant impacts to public health,...
October 17, 2023

Utah lawmakers scrutinize $40 million to get water into Great Salt Lake

water into it. The lake's decline presents an ecological crisis for Utah with significant impacts to public health with toxic dust storms and reduced snowpack, as well as harms to wildlife that use the lake as a refuge and more than a billion dollars in...
October 11, 2023

Inland port proposes wetland protections near Great Salt Lake

Great Salt Lake. The lake, which dropped to a record low last year, presents its own ecological crisis for the state with toxic dust storms, reduced snowpack, impacts to Utah's economy and harms to public health and wildlife. Details of the wetlands...
October 4, 2023

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