Utah’s Great Salt Lake is drying out, threatening ecological, economic disaster

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 14 (Reuters) – Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded level this month amid a two-decade drought, a grim milestone as researchers and politicians point to grave threats to wildlife and people along its receding shores.The nearby metropolis of Salt Lake City is already subject to dust storms that experts fears could get worse.”To save the Great Salt Lake, so that we don’t become Dust Lake City, is to make a conscious choice that the lake is valuable and that the lake needs to have water put into it,” said atmospheric scientist …
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