Great Salt Lake dries up, Utah faces an environmental challenge
Great Salt Lake dries up, Utah faces an environmental challenge
The Great Salt Lake, one of the world's largest lakes, has lost two-thirds of its surface in forty years, due to a water-hungry agricultural sector, mining industry, and global warming, which is reducing the flow of the rivers that feed it. Faced with this environmental challenge, this conservative Mormon state has spent a billion dollars to prevent the area from drying up completely, without giving in to the "religion of climate change", explains one resident.
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The Great Salt Lake, one of the world's largest lakes, has lost two-thirds of its surface in forty years, due to a water-hungry agricultural sector, mining industry, and global warming, which is reducing the flow of the rivers that feed it. Faced with this environmental challenge, this conservative Mormon state has spent a billion dollars to prevent the area from drying up completely, without giving in to the "religion of climate change", explains one resident.
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00:00You
00:30You
00:40Running to one of the largest open pit mines in the world. It's a mile and a half wide and a mile deep
00:46You
00:57So, yep
00:57You guys are gonna just kind of put your hands in there and you'll kind of see it's a little bit feels a little bit
01:03different than your normal water
01:06Okay, some people say it feels slimy
01:09Almost it's scary that it's getting so small and you see like a big picture from an aerial view and that's when it really hits
01:16How small it is?
01:18I know it's a concern and it's it's worrisome that we're losing it because we're losing all that ecology
01:24And then there's a lot of talk about the toxic dust that's gonna you know blow up
01:38You
01:40You
02:03Grace I like actually just just two years ago was out another out see those orange buoys a half mile out
02:09That's where the shore was
02:15Like there wouldn't be that life
02:16So the bugs need a place that they can come and live and breed and reproduce and when we looked at the decline
02:23What I said was there was a potential for the equivalent of an environmental nuclear bomb if we don't take some pretty dramatic action
02:30Things are changing whether it's naturally caused whether we're having an impact on it, you know, that's up for debate
02:37The reality is we have warmed up and that does have an impact on natural systems like Great Salt Lake
02:43I support Donald Trump
02:45I think that his policies are good policies for the people of America and the people of Utah
02:50But I think for us in Utah we look at what is going to be best for us here
02:55And how do we address these situations and these concerns?
02:58It's it's getting people to think about the lake more
03:03But
03:05Connecting that with climate change is a pretty hard task
03:09Utah's pretty conservative a Donald Trump presidency would be disastrous for environment in general and
03:18generally for Great Salt Lake
03:22You
03:28You