The only permanent solution to addressing the budding public health crisis caused by Great Salt Lake dust events is to reduce ...

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Water level in the Great Salt Lake (GSL) basin has steadily fallen from 1847 to half its original volume today even though annual rainfall has remained constant over that time. The GSL has lost 25 ...

Multiple studies were authorized and plans finalized. That includes the Great Salt Lake Basin Integrated Plan, a basin-wide modeling tool to inform future water decisions. The Great Salt Lake ...

The Great Salt Lake is a time capsule. It can tell us where the Earth has been, and where it is going. Like its sister lakes in the sprawling Great Basin, Utah’s Great Salt Lake appears to be on ...

Dotted across the Great Basin of the American West are salty, smelly lakes. The largest of these, by far, is the Great Salt Lake in Utah. "People have been saying that they miss the lake stink ...

Editor’s note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people ...

Editor’s note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform ...

The remaining 8 percent is lost from evaporation from lakes and reservoirs in the basin. Climate change has also contributed to the Great Salt Lake’s record lows. The worst megadrought in 1,200 ...

And the Great Salt Lake isn’t the only saline lake in the West providing this critical avian staging ground. The entire Great Basin has a constellation of terminal waters that help guide ...

The Great Salt Lake Basin is comprised of five smaller basins — the Bear, Weber and Jordan rivers, Utah Lake and the West Desert. There are many models in each basin analyzing how water flows ...

To draw their conclusions, the researchers employed data from the Utah Division of Water Resources to create a comprehensive water budget for the Great Salt Lake basin for 1989 through 2022.