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Study urges cutting irrigation to preserve Great Salt Lake's future
The Great Salt Lake, which has no outlet, is the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth largest in the world. Its 21,000-square-mile drainage basin includes the Wasatch ...
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Amid a freeze, Utah granted millions of gallons of new water rights in the Great Salt Lake basin. Here’s where the water will go.
In two years, the state approved about 2,500 acre-feet of new water rights within the Great Salt Lake basin under exceptions in a moratorium – including hundreds of acre-feet within view of the ...
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Environmentalists warn: Changing ‘waters of the U.S.’ definition could damage Great Salt Lake
As the Trump administration spearheads federal rules revisions on water, considering the removal of Clean Water Act ...
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The Past History of the Great Salt Lake (Utah)
Streams empty themselves into inland lakes in different parts of the Basin, the most important of these being familiar to everyone as the Great Salt Lake of Utah. This, however, is only the ...
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Advocates: Changing ‘Waters of the U.S.’ definition could damage Great Salt Lake
Utah environmental advocates worry it could affect 79% of the water in the Great Salt Lake Basin. Environmental Protection Agency announced in March that it would review the definition of ...