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How can farmers help the Great Salt Lake? This one may have an answer
Great Salt Lake Watershed Enhancement Trust helps people like this Weber County farmer help the lake President Joe Biden made an historic announcement Tuesday designating a new national monument in Arizona that in part is promoted as a way to help save...
August 10, 2023
Environmentalists seek to elevate the Great Salt Lake in local policy decisions
between encroaching development and the Great Salt Lake. Alarmed by the harms of a shrinking Great Salt Lake (including toxic dust storms, reduced snowpack, environmental impacts to public health and wildlife) the Utah State Legislature has spent...
August 10, 2023
Great Salt Lake trust offers millions for wetland protection
increased water diversions. A shrinking lake has alarmed state leaders who worry about reduced snowpack and water supply, toxic dust storms, harms to wildlife and public health and billions in negative impact to Utah's economy. To help refill the lake,...
July 21, 2023
'People's Great Salt Lake Summit' seeks to push elected leaders to do more
as a result of years of drought, water diversion and a changing climate. The threats from a shrinking lake are real with toxic dust storms, disappearing and dying wildlife and impacts to Utah's economy. The situation surrounding the lake has alarmed the...
July 19, 2023
The new Great Salt Lake Commissioner is ready to help save the lake
alarming the public and political leaders. A shrinking lake impacts public health, the economy and Utah's ecology with toxic dust that blows into northern Utah communities, reduced snowpack in the mountains and reduced wetland habitat. Lawmakers reacted...
July 5, 2023
Does Utah need (or want) a sixth national park?
row. Its ecosystem, which supports millions of migrating birds, was nearly wiped out. Its desiccated lakebed has dried to toxic dust which threatens the health of millions of Wasatch Front residents. Although a record-breaking snowpack has raised the...
June 15, 2023
Great Salt Lake boaters return as water rises more than five feet
the lake isn’t in the clear. It needs to rise another five feet or so to reach a sustainable elevation and stop blowing toxic dust. At least four of the boats stacked in the marina’s parking lot are too big to launch at the lake’s current elevation. And...
June 8, 2023
Boats put back in Great Salt Lake marina as water levels rise
of water diversion, drought and a changing climate. The harms are significant, with harms to wildlife, public health, toxic dust storms and impacts to Utah's economy. Saving the lake has become a top priority of the public and policy makers, who passed...
June 7, 2023
Utah Senate committee confirms Great Salt Lake commissioner
and water; harms to wildlife from reduced marshlands surrounding the lake; impacts to public health in the form of toxic dust storms from naturally-occurring arsenic in the now-exposed lake bed; and billions of dollars in lost economic impact generated...
June 6, 2023
Bills on landscaping, crops and dedicating water to Great Salt Lake to be resurrected
alike. With the lake's decline over the years (as a result of diversion, drought and changing climate), there have been toxic dust storms and harms to public health, wildlife and Utah's economy. The legislature has spent roughly $1 billion over the past...
June 1, 2023
Great Salt Lake commissioner explains why Utahns should avoid 'Great Salt Lake fatigue'
heartened by the year we have had, we still have great cause for concern,” said Steed. Challenges include mitigating toxic dust blowing off the lake and into Utah communities and making sure that water saved through conservation from all sides,...
May 31, 2023
New Great Salt Lake commissioner says he hopes Utah avoids 'Great Salt Lake fatigue'
between 67% and 73% of the lake's water is lost to "natural and human consumptive use." In addition, some of the lake's toxic dust is stillblowing into Utah communities during storm events even after all the water the lake has received this spring. "My...
May 25, 2023
SLC looks to preserve a chunk of Great Salt Lake land as development encroaches
future generations." The wetlands along the south shore are also significant, Seed said, in preventing a "hot spot" for toxic dust storms that come off the exposed lake bed. She pointed to a map that showed the area next to a dust zone that has already...
May 23, 2023
Great Salt Lake is still blowing dangerous dust
The Wasatch Front will continue to get pummeled until the lake reaches a sustainable level. After historic snowfall over the winter, Utahns are breathing a sigh of relief about the Great Salt Lake. But they’d better not breathe too deeply — it still is...
May 19, 2023
'A statewide task': Utah's water future will require collaboration, House speaker says
that emerged as it reached record-low levels last year. This has also helped cover some of the lakebeds that had brought toxic dust into communities during strong storms last year, another major concern with the drying lake, Wilson said. But he...
May 18, 2023
Lawmakers look to import some Israeli water policies to Utah
part of Utah's ecosystem, dropped to a historic low last year and presents an existential threat to the state with toxic dust storms, reduced snowpack and harms to public health and wildlife. Not all of Israel's methods would work in Utah, the...
May 17, 2023
Utah leaders close to picking a new 'Great Salt Lake czar'
below what is considered a healthy level. Alarmed by the lake's decline and the potential for reduced snowpack, increased toxic dust storms and impacts to public health and wildlife, the Utah State Legislature has passed many water conservation bills...
May 11, 2023
Here’s how much water golf courses use across Utah
1 million acre-feet short in water inflows over the last few years, causing it to recede to record lows and dry into toxic dust. Excluding Kennecott Copper Club’s shaky data, thetop five golf courses using water that would otherwise flow to the Great...
April 10, 2023
LDS Church to permanently donate thousands of acre-feet of water to the Great Salt Lake
the church holds in Utah, and the critical role it could play in rallying residents to help save the lake from becoming a toxic dust bowl. The lake contributes $1.9 billion to Utah’s economy and supports the vast majority of the state’s wetlands. It’s a...
March 16, 2023
Church of Jesus Christ donates 5.7K water shares to the Great Salt Lake
SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has agreed to donate 5,700 water shares that will send more than 20,000 acre-feet of water to the struggling Great Salt Lake every year, Utah officials announced Wednesday. The church's...
March 15, 2023
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