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Great Salt Lake gets a plan for companies wanting to pump its water

The Salt Lake Tribune 06 Aug 2025
Utah’s resource managers have presented a plan that ensures water that makes it to the Great Salt Lake stays in the lake. .
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Letter: The LDS Church is exceptionally well-poised to tackle the Great Salt Lake crisis

The Salt Lake Tribune 03 Aug 2025
Researching the Great Salt Lake crisis, I keep coming to this conclusion. the problem could be solved by the organization most responsible for creating it. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. .
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As water levels dwindle, Utah legislature might address Great Salt Lake during a special session

Idaho Press-Tribune 02 Aug 2025
Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz said there will likely be a special session this fall that could address the Great Salt Lake, which has recently fallen to dangerously low levels ... .
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Is the Great Salt Lake drying up?

Magic Valley 31 Jul 2025
The shores of the Great Salt Lake near Syracuse, Utah, with Antelope Island in the background, are pictured on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 ... .
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Farmers want to help the Great Salt Lake, but feel like ‘scapegoats’ for a more ...

HJ News 30 Jul 2025
As the search for solutions to the shrinking Great Salt Lake continues, researchers at Utah State University opened up conversations with the biggest water users in the state. farmers ....
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The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb

The Nation 29 Jul 2025
Adelaide Parker. Retreating water levels are exposing stretches of cracked, arsenic-laden lakebed in Utah. Future dust storms will carry an extra hazard. ....
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Great Salt Lake again dips to “scary low level”

The Salt Lake Tribune 29 Jul 2025
The Great Salt Lake is hovering just above its record-low 2022 elevation, when it began to slide toward ecological collapse. .
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Great Salt Lake Restrictions Enacted as Water Levels Drop

Newsweek 29 Jul 2025
The lake's levels have plunged to a "really bad" place, the Great Salt Lake Commissioner said on Tuesday ....
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Farmers want to help the Great Salt Lake, but feel like ‘scapegoats’ for a more complex problem

Provo Daily Herald 25 Jul 2025
Courtesy Bryn WatkinsThe shore of Great Salt Lake, left, is pictured alongside its historic shoreline, right ... And farmers argue that they have something in common with the Great Salt Lake — that their existence is threatened by the same thing.
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Kennecott’s tailings pond may be leaking into the Great Salt Lake

The Salt Lake Tribune 14 Jul 2025
A polluted tailings pond at the Kennecott Utah mine has sunk 20 feet or more, raising concerns that it has seeped contamination into the neighboring Great Salt Lake. .
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Check out some of the zines Utah teens made about the Great Salt Lake

The Salt Lake Tribune 13 Jul 2025
When she first heard about the Great Salt Lake drying up, Eddie Memmott, 18, thought it was bad, but “didn’t care too much.” .
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Utah teens record a bluegrass jingle to raise awareness about the Great Salt Lake

The Salt Lake Tribune 13 Jul 2025
Using a cowbell, tambourine and some “country accents,” three Utah teens recently created a call-to-action for the Great Salt Lake. .
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