A drying Great Salt Lake spells trouble for Utah

City Lab: The Great Salt Lake is drying up, thanks to 150 years of human diversions from the rivers that feed it. That’s the takeaway of a white paper released by a team of Utah biologists and engineers. And if those diversions continue ramping up, as a bill working its way through the Utah legislature proposes, the waterbody may face a withering fate similar to other dried-up salt lakes around the world. The namesake of Utah’s capital city, the Great Salt Lake is the the state’s defining geographic feature......

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