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.

Plus, lawmakers could do more with conservation and development in the Great Salt Lake basin, according to Ferry. He said a big focus for water managers now is figuring out new ways to not only ...

The governor was reacting to a recent report calling for more cuts to alfalfa and hay production in the Great Salt Lake Basin to bring the lake back to a healthy level, including paying farmers ...

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, over the past couple of years, the state approved about 2,500 acre-feet of new water ...

which projects that evaporation will continue to increase within the Great Salt Lake Basin in the coming century. "That just causes more and more demand on our limited resource," he said ...

The authors used data from the Utah Division of Water Resources to build a detailed water budget for the Great Salt Lake basin for the years 1989 through 2022. On average, inputs to the lake – river ...

Since 2021, he has set up 30 or so Google Alerts for variations on the word “lithium,” and he uses the findings to populate an online map of projects ... the Great Salt Lake in Utah, the ...

Salt Lake City. Amarillo, Texas ... “Cheatgrass was involved in 39 of the largest 50 fires across the Great Basin West,” said Jennifer Balch, a fire scientist and professor of geography at the ...

Above: Satellite view of the Great Lakes ... drainage basin. They hold about 6 quadrillion gallons of water, or enough to blanket the entire U.S. to a depth of over 9 feet! Each lake, and their ...

Salt Lake City. Amarillo ... “Cheatgrass was involved in 39 of the largest 50 fires across the Great Basin West,” said Jennifer Balch, a fire scientist and professor of geography at the ...

Recent studies that single out agriculture — particularly alfalfa farming — as the primary cause of the Great Salt Lake’s decline are counterproductive, as they create a false dichotomy, pitting the ...