Facing an ecological disaster in just a few years, a conservative state wants to open the taps of infrastructure spending and press cities and agriculture to conserve water more carefully. Will it be enough?
But in Utah, the drying of Great Salt Lake now appears so imminent that it is prompting action. The recession of its waters places into jeopardy the bounty of snow that has made the state a global skiing destination and risks arsenic in the lakebed that can be stirred up into toxic dust storms, a situation
In satellite images from 1984 to 2020, stretches of the lake can be seen turning from water to dusty terrain. The lakebed is rich in arsenic, and health experts worry where the carcinogenic dust will spread.The crisis at the lake has produced no shortage of ideas to fix the problem. One state lawmaker wants to use nuclear energy to pump deep groundwater to the lake. Others have recommended a mass forest cull, saying the state has too many trees that are sucking up too much water.
Some of those steps have already been notable. Last year, the state upended established legal principle and allowed water users to designate – and potentially sell – volumes to the lake. That step also opens the way to create a market for water rights, which economists say is key to creating incentives for conservation.
At the state level, officials have begun an accounting exercise to find the water volumes they say are needed to stabilize the lake. The “shortfall is about 450,000 acre-feet per year,” or 555 billion litres, said Mr. Ferry. Secure that amount of water, and wet years – such as the current winter – can, over time, begin to refill the lake, he said.
To do that, the Great Salt Lake Salinity Advisory Committee voted in late January to recommend raising a berm dividing the two halves of the lake, preventing any new water from reaching the north arm. That arm will not beBrine shrimp and brine flies in the south arm support industrial harvesting and 10 million birds, including eared grebes, tundra swans, snowy plovers and other species that pass through the area, many on migratory paths to Canada.
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