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Drying Out
A recent meeting of the Alliance for a Better Utah featured a visiting speaker who admitted he did not know much about the threats to the Great Salt Lake
Miss: Drying Out A recent meeting of the Alliance for a Better Utah featured a visiting speaker who admitted he did not know much about the threats to the Great Salt Lake. He's probably not alone. A 2023 BYU report calls the lake "a keystone ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere" and concludes that water conservation is the answer.
Now, the urgent message is being called a hoax—even by the governor. A three-part series in The Salt Lake Tribune highlights the threats but also minimizes the solutions, according to BYU's Ben Abbott in an open-letter response to the Tribune .
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