Great Salt Lake Collaborative
Great Salt Lake is at its lowest water level on record and continues to shrink. Utah Public Radio has teamed up with more than a dozen Utah organizations for the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a group that has come together to share multimedia stories and rigorous reports about the lake and ways to protect this critical body of water before it's too late.
Learn more at greatsaltlakenews.org.
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Atmospheric rivers, “giant conveyor belts of water in the sky,” cause the moisture-rich “Pineapple Express” storm systems that come from the Pacific Ocean, especially Hawaii, several times annually and are more common in the winter. -
The 2023 Utah general legislative session wrapped up on March 3, and Utah State University professor Patrick Belmont says legislators failed to fix Utah’s major structural issues with water management.
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The authors of "lake words," a small book on Great Salt Lake, are calling on the public for original submissions for "lake words vol. ii," set to be released sometime this summer.
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The donation is the equivalent size of Little Dell Reservoir and will be solely for the lake and in perpetuity. It was previously used for agriculture by the Church.
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The flooding gave an invasive plant a blank slate to expand, choking out other plant life and spreading across thousands of acres.
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News of the shrinking Great Salt Lake has reached audiences across the world, but how are other saline lakes faring? One saline lake, half a world away from Utah, is the target of ambitious protections and education initiatives, even as environmental threats against it mount.
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House Bill 220 originally pushed a 50% emissions reduction in northern Utah by 2030. But the bill was not gaining traction in the Utah State Legislature, so supporters are instead using it to go after U.S. Magnesium.
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A bill that will soon be introduced in the Utah State Legislature will task one person with overseeing efforts to save the Great Salt Lake.
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Utah’s research universities, along with partners in state government, have joined in a partnership to analyze and share best available data and research on Great Salt Lake’s declining water levels. We’ll talk about it on this episode of Access Utah.
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The Great Salt Lake Strike Team, a group of researchers and state officials, announced findings and policy suggestions in a new report at this month’s Kem C. Gardner Newsmaker Breakfast.
