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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 ...

This graph shows snowpack levels within the Great Salt Lake Basin as of Thursday. The basin jumped from about 69% of the median average on Dec. 23 to 104% in less than two weeks.

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 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 ...

The Salt Lake Tribune analyzed dozens of water rights applications submitted in the two years following a moratorium on most new appropriations within the Great Salt Lake Basin. Here's what we found.

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.

Great Salt Lake experts told CNN the state would “need another five years like this in order to get the system healthy again. ... are ones where water can flow into but not out of the basin.

But deserts are dynamic and desert lakes fragile, none more so than Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Emblematic of the West’s Great Basin, the Great Salt Lake has no outlet.

Its recent rise comes after many parts of the Great Salt Lake Basin, covering most of Utah's northern half, have received over an inch of precipitation since Dec. 23.

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 ...