Knowledge in Action
One of the biggest assets we have in our race to save Great Salt Lake is access to rigorous, independent information about the problem and potential solutions. Whether you are just beginning your learning about the lake or trying to do more to help it, check out the links below.
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News from the Great Salt Lake Collaborative
History
- Common questions about Great Salt Lake by the Utah Geological Survey
- UDNR 2-pager on the Great Salt Lake (2022)
- Lake Bonneville
- Great Salt Lake Advisory Council Activities (Compilation of reports)
- Utah Division of Water Resources (Lake overview and link to multiple resources 2022)
Current status
- Great Salt Lake Strategic Plan
- Utah’s Great Salt Lake dashboard
- Our January Emergency Report
- Utah’s Strike Team Report
- Water use impacts on the lake
- Bear River Development Project
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Great Salt Lake Basin: Connections, challenges and solutions
Management options
- Great Salt Lake Comprehensive Management Plan (Forestry, Fire & State Lands 2013)
- Economic Significance of the Great Salt Lake to the State of Utah (Great Salt Lake Advisory Council economic assessment 2012)
- Water for Great Salt Lake (Great Salt Lake Advisory Council report comparing strategies to increase lake level 2017)
- Conservation Impacts Study (Great Salt Lake Advisory Council report on the effectiveness of conservation 2020)
- Utah Water Science Center (United States Geological Survey resources on the Great Salt Lake 2022)
- Municipal and Industrial Water Use in Utah (Detailed analysis of nonagricultural water use throughout the state 2010)
- Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program (2022)
Other reports on the Great Salt lake
- Legal Strategies for the Great Salt Lake (Key policy document outlining future responses 2020)
- Recommendations to Ensure Adequate Water Flows to Great Salt Lake and Its Wetlands (Report from the Great Salt Lake Resolution Steering Group (HCR-10) 2020; executive summary)
- Water Development, Consumptive Water Uses, and the Great Salt Lake (Textbook chapter on water use and conservation options by Null and Wurtsbaugh 2020)
- Exploring Utah’s Water (Extension report on water use in Utah 2016
