01-08-2023, 05:35 AM
Thanks MW for sharing some of your views and facts on our declining GSL...I couldn't agree more...99+% of our inhabitants of the Wasatch Front/GSL region have never even seen our (used to be) Great Salt Lake, and what's out of sight is out of mind...meaning they don't care...Should we all be more Conservation Minded? Use less water on our lawns, fewer baths and showers, wash our vehicles less frequently, drip irrigation in our gardens and shrubbery, not get water in our restaurants, etc. etc.??...Maybe, but did you know that "saved water" isn't making it out to help our GSL?..it's staying in our reservoirs!...just staying there to feed the thirsty requirements of our constantly growing communities, including agriculture (think excessive water requirements for alfalfa), massive building construction all over our valley, North to South, East and West...much more of course, all demanding water from our reservoirs...NOT reaching our ever depleting GSL....MW described some of the serious results of a "mini" Salt Lake..I don't believe our state politicians or business leaders are willing or able to stop our high population growth trend..I saw it get serious about 40 or so years ago when our governor was heavily promoting new businesses to come to Utah...could've started before that, but that's when I saw it..So yes, good businesses are here, and the people will keep coming..We know from past experience that we cannot depend on a reliable snowpack for current or growing population's water needs..I think getting water to our GSL will take DRASTIC measures..hopefully not draining our reservoirs (but not creating more)..and maybe the tremendously expensive aquaduct from the Pacific isn't so outlandish, or a fresh water aquaduct from the lower flood regions of the South or East connecting directly to some of our reservoirs or even the GSL...I know nothing like this will happen in my lifetime, but for younger generations, I sure hope SOMETHING big happens to save, and restore our Great Salt Lake...IMO, of course...