Through a transbasin diversion, water is piped from a tributary that feeds into the Colorado River, but that water winds its way through an elaborate delivery system to serve the Central Utah Water ...
The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is examining the dire effects of the drought on ...
The expense would come from tamping down the dust from the dried lake bed, which contains heavy metals, PFAS and other chemicals.
The governor of Utah has a problem. The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, and a dry lakebed threatens to send arsenic-laced dust plumes across the state’s most populated areas. Gov. Spencer Cox has risen ...
The Great Salt Lake's dust storms are not just an environmental problem, according to a new study from a professor at the University of Utah. It's also hitting Utahns' wallets.
Adam Richins looked outside and saw a brownish hue spanning the horizon across Millard County. “It’s a dust bowl,” he said. Richins, Millard County’s planner, is sure the Sevier Dry Lake is a ...
When she first heard about the Great Salt Lake drying up, Eddie Memmott, 18, thought it was bad, but “didn’t care too much.” But as she told KRCL’s RadioACTive program recently, she kept learning.
As the search for solutions to the shrinking Great Salt Lake continues, researchers at Utah State University opened up conversations with the biggest water users in the state: farmers. Among the ...
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 about ...
This past month, Glendale Library hosted an event to teach children about animals that live in and around Great Salt Lake. Volunteers distributed gray-green seagull wings to grade-schoolers who soared ...