Another disaster predicted to happen unless action is taken

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

https://news.yahoo.com/great-salt-la...185303576.html

The New York Times
As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces 'An Environmental Nuclear Bomb'
Christopher Flavelle
Tue, June 7, 2022, 1:53 PM
Exposed lake bed in the northern part of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, March 14, 2022. (Bryan Tarnowski/The New York Times)
Exposed lake bed in the northern part of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, March 14, 2022. (Bryan Tarnowski/The New York Times)
SALT LAKE CITY — If the Great Salt Lake, which has already shrunk by two-thirds, continues to dry up, here’s what’s in store:

The lake’s flies and brine shrimp would die off — scientists warn it could start as soon as this summer — threatening the 10 million migratory birds that stop at the lake annually to feed on the tiny creatures. Ski conditions at the resorts above Salt Lake City, a vital source of revenue, would deteriorate. The lucrative extraction of magnesium and other minerals from the lake could stop.

Most alarming, the air surrounding Salt Lake City would occasionally turn poisonous. The lake bed contains high levels of arsenic and as more of it becomes exposed, windstorms carry that arsenic into the lungs of nearby residents, who make up three-quarters of Utah’s population.


“We have this potential environmental nuclear bomb that’s going to go off if we don’t take some pretty dramatic action,” said Joel Ferry, a Republican state lawmaker and rancher who lives on the north side of the lake.

As climate change continues to cause record-breaking drought, there are no easy solutions. Saving the Great Salt Lake would require letting more snowmelt from the mountains flow to the lake, which means less water for residents and farmers. That would threaten the region’s breakneck population growth and high-value agriculture — something state leaders seem reluctant to do.

Utah’s dilemma raises a core question as the country heats up: How quickly are Americans willing to adapt to the effects of climate change, even as those effects become urgent, obvious, and potentially catastrophic?

The stakes are alarmingly high, according to Timothy D. Hawkes, a Republican lawmaker who wants more aggressive action. Otherwise, he said, the Great Salt Lake risks the same fate as California’s Owens Lake, which went dry decades ago, .................

Well, action called for but how are they going to get more water to the lake?
I suspect that a Native American , rain dance would not bear fruit. --Tyr

[revelarts]

Crazy Idea #1

It's the great SALT Lake.
Could we build a Pipeline or Rail Line from the Pacific to the Lake?
with the necessary filtration plant?

[fj1200]

Is it drying out because they're not letting water go into it? But the problem with the pumping idea is 4200 feet above sea level and various mountain ranges in the way. The Salton Sea has the same drying up problem but it's below sea level and no mountain ranges in the way. The Dead Sea has the same problem but below sea level and no mountain ranges. Apparently they had a $4bb solution but Jordan doesn't have the money and Israel said nevermind. It's amazing how far down the Dead Sea is in the last 50 years.