The audacious plan to refill the Great Salt Lake

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Great Salt Lake has been shriveling up for decades. At its record low about four years ago, the exposed lake bed became a source of toxic dust, with scientists warning of imminent ecological collapse. A Utah official called the lake an “environmental nuclear bomb.”

But a monumental, perhaps impossible, plan to save it has gained significant traction in recent months. The goal: refill the Great Salt Lake in just eight years.

Once a niche cause for environmental advocacy groups, the task of replenishing the lake has won support from many strange bedfellows. Republican state lawmakers in Utah have been working in close partnership with environmental organizations on restoration plans. Those efforts were already underway when Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced last fall that the state would refill the Great Salt Lake by 2034, when Salt Lake City plans to host the Olympic Games. Josh Romney — son of former Sen. Mitt Romney — launched a $100 million philanthropic campaign in tandem with Cox’s announcement.

Last week, another unlikely ally joined the cause: “MAKE ‘THE LAKE’ GREAT AGAIN!” President Donald Trump, no friend of the Romney family, said on social media.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/audacious-plan-refill-great-salt-170000395.html

Does Trump think we can turn on a tap from Canada?

[2naSalit]

1. Fucking idiots...

The reason it's drying up so fast is that they have successfully diverted 85% of the runoff from the mountains into municipal and industrial use... and they keep on building believing their sky daddy will save them from their own mismanagement and willful ignorance.

[JBTaurus83]

2. It won't be a very desirable area for long.

Once all of that toxic dust hits the air.

[2naSalit]

3. I think...

It's already happening, they just finally discovered that they can't really ignore it anymore. It's been known that this would happen for a long time.