The Great Salt Lake is one of the unique landmarks in the west. But it has been in a long-term decline for decades.
Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake is photographed Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, from an aerial tour provided by EcoFlight.It’s the largest lake in the U.S. with no outlet to the sea. Water only leaves through evaporation, so salt enters and never leaves. Its tributaries, which include the Bear, Weber and Jordan rivers, have scoured rocks and mountains, depositing them in the lake as minerals and salts over millennia.
The lake also supports multi-million dollar industries. It’s a popular tourist attraction for boaters, birders and waterfowl hunters. Aquaculture harvests hardy brine shrimp eggs, packages them and ships them overseas to feed the farmed fish and shrimp you buy at the grocery store. Extractorsby channeling it into multi-colored evaporation pools. If you pop open a can of soda, there’s a good chance it was made from Great Salt Lake magnesium.
But the lake is in trouble. Although its elevation rises and falls depending on the time of year and seasonal snowpack, data show it has seen a long-term trend of decline. It hit a record low in 2021, and another record low in 2022.A shrinking lake poses a major threat to the millions of people living on the Wasatch Front, as its hundreds of square miles of exposed lakebed dry and turn into toxic dust.
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