Record snow brings Great Salt Lake back from the brink of drought



Last year, Utah’s Great Salt Lake reached its lowest level ever recorded, but massive snow amounts this summer have brought it back from the brink. Now, there are new signs of life at the lake. John Blackstone has more.

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47 thoughts on “Record snow brings Great Salt Lake back from the brink of drought”

  1. Everyone who has commented so far clearly watched the piece and understood it. How is it that the hosts of the show didn't seem to get it? Jeff Glor even misquoted Bonnie Baxter saying that she said, according to his distortion, "I wrote the obituary for this lake. Now I'm saying it's back." She absolutely did NOT say that. The lake has recovered 5 feet of a needed 11 feet of depth, and the likelihood of that continuing in the next few years is extremely low. What ever happened to intellectual honesty in journalism? After a well done report, this host just blatantly tries to undermine the point being made. This is good news for the moment, but the overall situation remains grim. Shame on you CBS. You are a complete disappointment to honest journalism.

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  2. Born and raised in SLC. This year bought us a couple years. That's it. We have had over 20 years of data showing this was happening but they did nothing. It's pathetic. We had a governor that told the citizens to "pray for rain" Instead of creating changes

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  3. This is a farce. John Blackstone is a fool or a tool of agricultural interests. The main threat to the Great Salt lake is the water being taken out by farmers growing alfalfa. There is no political will to stop this, and this article shows this too well. Same thing is happening at Mono lake in California and Walker lake in Nevada. We have cowards for jounalists these days, it seems.

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  4. @ Ferry, Your Faith has made thee Whole. Prayer is your Remedy! Keep the Faith n continue to remain steadfast n fasting n prayer unto our Lord for Rain for the land God gave yur family to steward over.🙏 😇

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  5. We live in a time of weather misinformation. Last week there were news reports that this was the hottest summer in 120,000 years and some said the hottest summer ever. All the weather websites list different forecasted highs and lows and precipitation and humidity. The weather maps on nightly news are more likely to show heat indexes than actual temperatures. If someone installs a temperature probe above an air conditioner or black asphalt parking lot, it will read higher in the summer.
    In a couple decades are we going to say, “the 2020’s was a hot decade,” or, “that was the beginning of the end?”
    I have a feeling that a mild several years is all that it will take and climate scientists will be patting themselves on the back for saving the Earth from assured destruction and mass extinction by ramming a green initiative down all our throats as China and India could care less about targets set by rich people about rich people problems.

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  6. i tend to think all this water came from that volcano off the coast of california that that wuz it for water to give az it put so much water ash in to the atmosphere

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  7. We had a good idea that the lake could be in trouble in the 1990's. Our republicant politicians refused to act until they found out that there would be toxic dust heading toward majority white communities. Keeping it 💯

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  8. THAT'S RIGHT! GOD opened His Heavens by HIS merciful hand, because of His goodness, kindness, and faithfulness! So-called Mother Nature is just a fairytale. People who use that term simply don't want to give God any Glory, even when He is doing wonderful things for our benefit alone. Thank You, Heavenly Father!

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