The water in the Great Salt Lake is dropping precipitously because of high water usage and several years of drought. Experts say the lake has five years left unless more water is conserved. The loss of the lake would send ripple effects throughout the region.
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The NSA spy center in Draper Is using almost 2 million gallons of water per day!
Put pipes from pacific ocean to utah
And feel the lake to maximum levels
No
Other option
Nature decides how the earth changes. And in case you didn't know we're a part of nature just like any other animal is. Everything that exists in this universe is one thing. And we can it nature.
"Men wont stop until they've spoiled the earth"
Capt.Holly- Watership Down
The fact that a single Golf Course exists near the Salt Lake when it is completely drying up should be a crime. In a sane country or state they should allow those golf courses to die and make it illegal to golf in the state. If you want to golf then move to Florida
Do you eat food? Farmers need water.
It's hard for me to imagine anyone who earns their livelihood on that lake is not paying into an organized effort to restore it. Anyone drawing water from that lake needs to put a portion of their income back into preserving and resuscitating the lake. Utah is a rich state. Are they just going to completely run it dry or are they going to help avoid the certain disaster they're directly causing? For people to keep drawing from its riches while it's dying is selfish and stupid. Where are the acts of gratitude for the huge wealth the Great Salt Lake has given these people? All of them. Where is the giving back to Mother Nature as they continue to leach it of all the resources it's still able to produce?
Amazing greed & amazing selfishness.
NSA using all that water to cool their servers
Instead of trying to build a pipeline of transporting environmentally toxic oil, maybe we should've thought about water.
We normal peoples can't do much.. The most of environment destroy by corporate and political.. Their silly mouths keep talking stop this stop that.. Do you think they really “stop”.. Ton of good money is involved..
there is many lakes through the us, and even in the middle east areas, that are displaced bodies of water from the meteor that created the gulf of mexico, some bodies of water got displaced. some examples is salton sea california it's only a matter of time it dries up, dead sea, salt lake city is is a bit more questionable because it has alot of mountains near by and snow. i think it's kind of hybrid it's gonna dry up, but it's in a location less hot and more snow and rain so it will stick around longer time before drying up.
another example is new mexico the west side of new mexico is over 6k elevation which is ALOT, higher than most of east half of the usa, higher than most cities on the west coast. BUT, despite this you can tell that alot of new mexico the west side used to be under water, the meteor hit pushed all that land 6k elevation into the air from below see in an extremely short period of time, all you have to do is look at the ridge lines. people who havn't been there as much as me can't really understand i driven through there 100s of times and aswell as the rest of the usa.
Lived in salt lake area since I was a kid. I've watched it dry up over the years and to this day I'm blown away the state doesn't implement laws to slow it. It will turn into a dust bowl which will leave salt lake not so beautiful
No, it's not an environmental nuclear bomb. Just another example of how the climate changes over time just as it has always done. If the water level was too high we would hear similar refrains of impending doom. Adapt or don't…you don't have a choice.
It's always the same. Most of the water is being used for agriculture. There are methods of agriculture that use less than a quarter of the current way. We won't do anything until it is way too late.
This is THE GREAT SALT LAKE they're talking about, right? This isn't LAKE MEADE. So exactly who's using the SALT WATER? Consumers can't use it to cook, drink, or water their lawns. Farmers can't use it for their crops, and ranchers can't use it for their cattle. This water has a high salt content that's unfit do drink, unfit for lawns, unfit for cattle to drink so with the exception of the Brine fisherman and Mineral Companies who exactly is using the HIGHLY CONCENTRATED SALT WATER? It's not water usage. It's EVAPORATION that's causing this lake to shrink, while actual water usage and evaporation is shrinking Lake Meade.
This video admits that Ranchers and Farmers were the first to use the lake waters so under law they are entitled to it's use, but these lakes should never have been considered to provide for huge populations within and outside of the state. This isn't a GLOBAL WARMING problem. It's a problem caused by IGNORANT HUMAN DECISIONS.
I lived in Las Vegas for almost a year, and worked security at Lake Meade. I drove the moving truck towing my car from Kentucky to Las Vegas, Nevada. I never saw a cattle ranch, or a farm driving through the desert. I saw the Wind Turbine farms many of which weren't turning, and large Solar Panel farms. That's it! I didn't see any highly populated areas of desert until I reached Las Vegas.
Investing 500 MILLION dollars every year (on Climate Change) to save the Lakes is a total misuse of funds. Climate Change is a HOAX. The money will never stop the natural evaporation in any desert area, or help to reduce water consumption being used by MILLIONS of people which is THE PROBLEM. Be aware of the bullshit you're being fed.
Awesome news! great that problems are brought up and discussed.
Republican controlled states are the actual hell holes. Blame the working class, yep. Not all the wealthy conservative pigs moving into their giant mcmansions with their lovely green lawns.
How about telling parks and the capital building to stop watering its lawn and fountains… farming can’t stop
Close the data center and fill the lake back up. Us Utahns know what the water is being stolen for. Surveillance.
A lake in a desert drying up. Who would've thunk it
ARENT YOU GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT NASA PUBLISHED DATA THAT REFLECTS THE EARTH IN FACT IS GETTING COLDER???
Way to shift the blame on food sources! How about the stupid city's that are 70% larger than they were 40 years ago? Everyone moved there and drained the water. The farms were fine before the crowds showed up. Just like Vegas. Look at Vegas 40 years ago verses today. When the lake is dry, the people will move. When the people move, the water will return. The problem is the overpopulation of the earth. The problem will resolve itself soon enough
Point is, Humans Suck! #HumansSuck
Crazy thing: so many enorheic lakes around the world are currently drying up. We made a video on this exact topic a couple of months ago and: Owens Lake in California is a perfect history textbook case on what will happen when GSL is drying up further. Only on a much larger scale!
I will be wearing a mask when I go outside no matter what thanks to the inversion and arsenic.
If we all stopped growing grass and instead grew food and conserved the rest, that alone would be huge. Eyes on golf courses especially.
Thanks for the video!
Why are people continuously stupid enough to hurt the hand that feeds them? People there literally need the lake to live urgh humanity is so frustrating
Night be time for a name change to Salt Lick City.
History is repeating itself. This is no different from the Aral Sea disaster. The rivers that fed it were diverted for agriculture. The Aral wasn't getting enough water to compensate for the evaporation loss just like the Great Salt Lake. The Aral's dust storms have also contributed to water shortages through salt deposition. Overusing pesticides on crops to preserve yields has exacerbated this. Crops are destroyed where salt is deposited by the wind. The most heavily affected fields must be flushed with water four times per day to remove salt and toxic matter.
Couldn't we just pump ocean water into some new salt lake water reservoirs to the west? Doesn't even have to go all the way there, just inside Nevada or anywhere we could create a location to hold the water? Then let nature take it's course through evaporation and such to carry the water the rest of the way. I read that it would be costly to pump it all the way to the Salt Lake, but frankly, the cost to do nothing would be far greater.
Wierd . It's only harmful when the lead and arsenic blow through the wind …. Not in the fish eggs they sell or water itself . 🤔🤔🤔 🤦
One of the major problems is the Mormon Church. Their members believe some mythical god gives them the right to use up all the resources without any other consideration. It makes it hard to protect the vast beauty of the state.