Slow the Flow vs. Grow the Flow

Slow the Flow vs. Grow the Flow

I’m guessing you have heard of Grow the Flow because you are reading this right now. If not, we are a movement dedicated to getting more water to the Great Salt Lake! So, what about Slow the Flow? While the names may be easy to mix up, we are two very different...
Summary of the Water Policy Accelerator

Summary of the Water Policy Accelerator

Photo by Unma Desai on Unsplash   One of the key components of Grow the Flow is the creation of the Water Policy Accelerator. This is a team of environmental lawyers and policy experts who are working on drafting legislation to conserve and shepherd water to...
Summary of the Research Coordination Network

Summary of the Research Coordination Network

To determine what the various strategies we push for should focus on, a Research Coordination Network is needed to study the impacts of possible actions. An international team of social and natural scientists has been assembled to synthesize actionable research on...
Youth Coalition Launch

Youth Coalition Launch

Youth Coalition Draws Impressive Crowd We were so grateful to join the Youth Coalition for Great Salt Lake at their kickoff event last Thursday. Congregating in the Salt Lake County government building on November 2nd, these high schoolers left us feeling inspired,...
Go ahead and flush

Go ahead and flush

Photo from Mary Anne Karren This article was originally published on Mary Anne’s website, maryannekarren.org and has been republished with her permission. When I first realized that sewage was being dumped into Great Salt Lake, it all started making sense. How...
Can Dams Save Great Salt Lake?

Can Dams Save Great Salt Lake?

Dam History and PoliticsFor over a century, dams have been bastions of development in the Western United States. They were signs of man’s domination over what had previously been considered untameable land. Dams could do the impossible: bring water where there had...