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This happens every year here. Itâs always the same âOh my goodness weâre in a horrible droughtâ and no one but smaller towns limits water usage and then with in the next 2 or so years we get a really good rain and snow season. What I honest to god recommend is the city slickers of Utah to limit their usage and in force it in colleges and other areas where others arenât as well versed in keeping water usage to a minimum
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The Great Salt Lake Recovery Act (introduced to the Senate by Mitt Romney) was apparently approved to allocate $10 million dollars to the Army Corps of Engineers to see what can be done about the lowering water levels. KSL is one of the major local news sites though, and many of the outspoken Utah locals basically seem to think that the shrinking of the lake is a natural process that, in their mind, has been happening since Lake Bonneville, and it shouldn't be interfered with.
Others seem to prefer prayer as a means of absolving themselves of personal responsibility.
Something that's brought up a lot (and I don't know how true it is) is the gripe in the KSL comments section about how a lot of the Utah legislature are land developers who keep expanding the population size beyond what the area can sustain. Another thing that I have seen brought up a lot is Utah water use by industry. Apparently, only around 9% is used by home owners, whereas something like 60-70% is used for agriculture. Would the agriculture water, if unused, go to the Salt Lake, or would it go to other lakes/reservoirs, or would it be unused? I don't know if there's been a good scientific answer on that given the competing interests.
Certainly, a lot of people from the smaller communities in Utah who have been farmers for generations don't want to give up their water and livelihood just so that water can be appropriated by city slickers in Salt Lake or sucked out to California/Nevada. But, I have also heard that a large portion of the agricultural water is being used to grow alfalfa crops that require a lot of water, and a lot of those alfalfa crops are then apparently sold to China, and not used to feed people locally as the threatened farmers like to doom and gloom by saying things like: "where will you get your food with no farmers?"
Once again, these are mostly just things I have heard, take them with a grain of salt. There's lots of that around where the Salt Lake used to be at the moment so it should be easy.
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The lake drying up is an environmental catastrophe for anyone living within 100 miles of the thing as well as for the U.S. magnesium supply, world fishery supply, and thousands of birds and wildlife. Not many people know that this lake supports a billion dollar+ industry and feeds the world fisheries (via brine shrimp). Additionally, people already have health problems related to the air pollution in this area and it is only going to get worse since the lake bed has mercury, lead, and arsenic that is thrown around during dust storms. Over 2.2 million people live in this area (and growing). Without the lake the Utah economy will collapse, if not from the loss of a billion dollar industry then from people leaving or dying from the health and safety hazards. If you live in Utah and this issues hasnât gotten you involved in politics then youâre part of the problem. Good luck folks.
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I go to spiral jetty and which was a đŽplace to be seen. It is so fun to swim in, but it has started to change due to them making a hole in the causeway because at the north end was 8 feet solid of salt. Serial Jetty it's lost a lot of salt. The beach used to look like snow, but no longer and that was the coolest and prettiest thing to see.
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@iammrbeat
1 year ago
What's your solution to the Great Salt Lake drying up? They need your help, internet, and you all are geniuses.
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