The Great Salt lake in the United States
of America is now facing an
unprecedented danger, as it has fallen to
an alarmingly low level amidst a climate
change fuel changing weather pattern. if
nothing is done to immediately conserve
water in Utah, then scientists in the
United States say that the Great Salt
Lake as we know it could potentially
disappear in as little as the next five
years . at this point to reverse the
decline enough water to cover more than
2.5 million acres of land, a foot deep of
water needs to flow back into the lake
each year , and to put that in perspective
a single acre foot contains nearly about
1.2 million liters of water.
today only about 0.1 million Acres a
feet of water is returned to Utah’s
famous Lake each year , and that is not
even close to being enough . since 2020
the lake has lost over one million acre
feet of water annually. to pull the
ecosystem back from the brink
research-led bazaunt is a brilliant
Young University has found water
consumption in the region, must be
reduced by at least about one third
possibly but even as much as a half.
the recent research I’ve ever suggested
that the ecosystem is reaching a
dangerous Tipping Point , as millions of
liters of water are being diverted from
the lake annually.
salinity levels have begun to increase
concentrations of salt enough so high,
flora and fauna are also struggling to
survive it is a lake bed begins to dry
out it is at risk of releasing embedded
arsenic Mercury, lead ,copper organic
contaminants and cyanotoxins into the
air via dust particles. the dust release
from the drying Lake can also damage
crops ,degrade salts and can also cause
prematures no melt . unfortunately there’s
not much that the average water consumer
in Utah can actually do to help . they can
remove their sprinklers avoid water
gasoline plants in their garden and
advocate for better environmental
policies at a state and federal level.
but the water that they use in their
house is almost always treated and
reused . water diverted from the Great
Salt Lake and its catchment area which
spans some 23 million acres is mostly
used for industrial agriculture.
three quarters of the consumptive water
use from the Lake’s Watershed currently
goes into irrigating crops , with mineral
extraction sucking up another nine
percent . reducing Farmers Reliance on
irrigation is the best and possibly the
only way to save the lake . but that will
require systematic political and
societal changes to Utah and the
surrounding states.
urgent measures need to be taken to save
the Great Salt Lake as it not only
Harbors important flora and fauna , it
also protects air quality , it removes
water pollution and moderates local
weather like snowball in the nearby
fountains.
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