The Great Salt Lake is once again expected to be a topic of discussion and action for Utah lawmakers in the 2025 general legislative session, which starts on Tuesday.

To draw their conclusions, the researchers employed data from the Utah Division of Water Resources to create a comprehensive water budget for the Great Salt Lake basin for 1989 through 2022.

humans in the Great Salt Lake basin need to reduce their water use by 35% — 650,000 acre-feet — per year. That’s enough water to fill Jordanelle Reservoir twice, but less than the estimated ...

We all use water and rely on the Great Salt Lake, so we are all in this together. Instead of pitting the lake against ...

Precipitation levels were closer to normal across the region overall, but drought returned to the basin after an abnormally dry second half. The Great Salt Lake has already received a welcome ...

The study, published Tuesday morning in the journal Environmental Challenges, argues that more water is being depleted in the Great Salt Lake Basin than is being replenished. The study's authors ...

While the decline has been widely attributed to low stream flows into the lake, the real story is more nuanced, a study ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Making those cuts will require the help of the other Great Salt Lake Basin states—Idaho and Wyoming—and likely need additional funding from the federal government, similar to what has been ...