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In fall 2022, the Great Salt Lake hit its lowest water level since record keeping began. The lake’s elevation sank to nearly six meters below the long-term average.
The Great Salt Lake Is Full of Lithium. A Startup Wants to Harvest It. Lilac has raised $145 million from Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, other investors ...
Great Salt Lake evaporates an incredible amount of water every year and Lake Powell and Lake Mead may not both survive. ... In southern Utah, Lake Powell sits at 37.4% full.
Great Salt Lake experts told CNN the state would “need another five years like this in order to get the system healthy again. ... Now, after an incredible winter full of rain and snow, ...
The only permanent solution to addressing the budding public health crisis caused by Great Salt Lake dust events is reducing human water consumption in the watershed and maintaining the lake at a ...
It found that the Great Salt Lake’s proximity to nearly 2.8 million Utahns offers a unique paradigm “for how ecological collapse can generate far-reaching financial liabilities across economic ...
As the lake dries up, sediment full of arsenic and other toxins takes flight, contributing to air pollution in Salt Lake City, which already has some of the worst air quality in the world, thanks ...
A near-capacity Utah Lake will feed water down the Jordan River and into the parched Great Salt Lake. ... topic of serious concern as its water levels are at around 30 percent of its full capacity.
Utah Lake as seen from the Utah Lake pump house in Saratoga Springs on Monday. About 10,000 acre-feet of water from the lake will be sent to the Great Salt Lake via the Jordan River over the next ...
Read the full story SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Drive west of this sprawling high desert city, past its newly built ... We're at Great Salt Lake right now but there's no water.
Utah's Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded level this month amid a two-decade drought, ... cupped his hands in the water and showed off two palms full of water teeming with tiny shrimp.
Great Salt Lake experts told CNN the state would “need another five years like this in order to get the system healthy again. ... Now, after an incredible winter full of rain and snow, ...