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The Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Program Act, sponsored by Rep. Blake Moore, R-Utah, and introduced with Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, directs the U.S. Geological Survey to ...

A new water management plan for the Great Salt Lake Basin was completed earlier this week, which the state hopes will ensure an ongoing, resilient water supply for northern Utah. The Great Salt ...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative The rising sun reflects off of pools of water and brine that are part of the Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Program on the mostly dry lakebed in Inyo County, California ...

With the Great Salt Lake in peril and shrinking by the day, Gov. Spencer Cox has issued a proclamation closing the lake’s watershed to any new water rights appropriations. The lake hit a record ...

The Salt Lake Tribune analyzed dozens of water rights applications submitted in the two years following a moratorium on most ...

The Great Salt Lake has hit a new historic low for the second time in less than a year. Utah Department of Natural Resources said Monday, June 5, 2022, in a news release, the lake dipped Sunday to ...

Its recent rise comes after many parts of the Great Salt Lake Basin, covering most of Utah's northern half, have received ...

The Bureau of Reclamation has announced a $50 million investment from the Inflation Reduction Act for a water delivery program aimed at ensuring an ongoing, resilient water supply in the Basin.

Like its "sister" lakes in the sprawling Great Basin that cover 200,000 square miles, Utah's Great Salt Lake appears to be on a collision course with nature plagued by diversions, drought and ...

The Great Salt Lake supports nearly 350 ... it’s an expensive way to refill a lake. The Walker Basin Restoration Program has spent at least $92 million but has only acquired 53 percent of ...

The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster with health and economic effects far beyond Utah’s borders. The state is taking action, but critics say it’s not doing enough.