The Great Salt Lake will dry up in 5 years unless Utah lawmakers act now

1. The problem is Utah's legislators doesn't care about Utah residents

2. Aral Sea re-loaded…

3. Twitchy.

4. Every time bigger disaster

5. We are going from disaster to disaster

6. The LDS church needs to step in and ad some 20 billion dollars. With us only like 6% of all their money to save the lake. After all they founded this state and city as the promise land. So they should step in. After they are the richest city in the world

7. GOD IS STRONG AT WORK! THE THINGS THAT A CERTAIN GROUP OF PEOPLE HAVE DONE TO THIS PLANET IS COMING TO AHEAD YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOE GOD WILL PAY A CERTAIN GROUP OF PEOPLE BACK FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO THE PLANET & THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THIS PLANET! YOU BROUGHT YOU WICKED BELEIF IN OWNING THE EARTH WHEN THE EARTH SHOULDN'T BELONG TO ANYONE IT BELONGS TO ALL HUMANS AND SHIULD HAVE BEEN CHERISHED LIKE THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE TREATED MOTHER EARTH YOUR WICKED WAYS HAVE DESTROYED EVERYTHING YOU HAVE TOUCHED OR COME INCONTACT WITH MAKE TIGHT WITH WHAT YOU HAVE DONE WRONG OR YOU WILL BE WHIPED OF THE OLANET EARTH GOD IS SENDING YOU WARNINGS THE TIME IS NOW TO ACT!!! YOU CAN NOT OWN THE WATER OF THE PLANET THAT IS THE ROOT CORE OF THEM PROBLEM THIS WICKED IDEA OF OWNERSHIP OF THE EARTHS NATURAL RESOURCES WE DONT NEED NEW IDEAS WE NEED TO GO BACK TO TBE OLD WAYS OF THE ORIGINAL PEOPLES OF THESE LANDS

8. Majority of people give no crap about the planet. Not much will change, because the government for sure does not care.

9. This proves that the only way to save this lake is through expensive desalination from the ocean 🌊 to this lake yes, it’s expensive but realistically there’s no other way to do this climate change has really taken its toll on the lake. Environmentalist need to come to the reality that this is a perfect world 🌎 and there’s no real way to stop climate change

10. Utah legislators will try to solve this by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on studies (awarded to their friends), then create laws that restrict individuals and families but don't impact developers, agriculture or the big money that own state leaders.

11. ah the optimism of youth. I feel terrible for this bright young lady having to specialize in such a no win situation with a smile. SLC is the 7th fastest growing city in U.S. last several years avg. +12K new arrivals currently around 600,000 mormons and that many more other lakers. Why people continue to move to areas undergoing desertification no good guess. 80% of their "cheap" water goes to agriculture which is split 70% meat production 30% farmland. The 30% farmland corn and alfalfa (largely for the cattle) requires water a plenty as do the cows and piggies. I read somewhere 1,800 gallons per pound of beef. 2021 numbers 1,100,000 cattle (avg 1,400 lbs.) and another million hogs (avg 280 lbs.) outstanding math problem for someone. The once great salt lake is now 75% dried up a la Lakes Mead and Powell. Politicians want #1 a 700 mile corrosive salt pipeline from the Pacific ocean to fill 'er back up #2 a 30% to 50% reduction of use over the next 2 years laughable #3 ignore there's a problem #4 prayers to Elohim. They are predicting 2028 big dust bowl I will say sooner than that since max depth is only 33 feet. At least Mead is 500 at it's deepest shaped like a martini glass unlike GSL more like a big salty puddle. Salton sea times 5. Damn shame I remember when I was quite young couldn't swim yet but I could float on my back very cool but that was long ago.

12. Climate is not causing anything.

13. The Great Salt Lake drying up and blowing away creating a health catastrophe. Well, that's just the fun part. Wait till Lake Meade hits dead pool in a few years. Then you're gonna see the $hit hit the fan.

14. Why not to start from rising water prices and limiting water usage for those farmers who sell their product outside of the state? This should not spill on farmers who sells locally.
    In the same time the rule ‘use it or loose it’ should be converted to more conservative use in correlation with projected demand.
    I have seen, in multiple occasions that farmers sprayed fields in the middle of nowhere non stop with nothing on it, just wild fields. They dying this just to hold on to their water rights, disregarding ecological or economical sense ((
    Good lack!

15. It just means that the area under the lake will look like the rest of Utah.

16. Salt lake is microcosm of water pollution in our oceans.

17. Just throw a giant pink toilet bowl deodorizer in it, mission accomplished.

18. Appreciate how his segment highlights a driving need of humanity to control the world around us. I find it paradoxical that the same neurosis that has resulted in "crises" such as dry lakes is the one driving our responses to said crises. I lament for the well-intentioned parties who think they can control the outcomes of generally natural processes. I am in no way attempting to dismiss individual efforts to reform human behavior towards respect and harmony with our environment, however massive pipelines or desalination efforts only serve to draw us further from a relationship of love and appreciation for the world that sustains us.

19. the toxic dust is just a beginning.

20. Due to over use of the water system! The local government and federal government are responsible for this! They have allowed this lake to be over used and it’s worth extorted to a point of counterproductivity. The water courses that feed this body should have bees measured along with the weather over a decade to ascertain the maximum usage numbers are then found. And then these numbers upheld at a federal level by implementing a ban on the excessive usage!! This lack of conservationists the water supply is shockingly reckless of local and federal government! Now it’s to late

21. Goddamn mormons ruin everything!

22. Why have a reporter on to cover a scientific issue? Wouldn't it make more sense to go straight to the scientists?

23. 15 inch of water snowpack on the ground now

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