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Since hosting the 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City’s legacy has been defined by its success. The city is set to host again in 2034, but with the Great Salt Lake predicted to dry up in five years making the area uninhabitable, will there be a winter games at all?...

What does community look like?  My mom was diagnosed with severe breast cancer when I was a sophomore in high school. She experienced pain cancer patients are all too familiar with.  While I would never wish cancer on anyone, our community's response to my mom’s...

Picture by Mary Anne Karen, used with permission Growing up in the Evergreen State of Washington, I loved coming to Utah in the fall. The vibrant oranges, reds, and yellows of the trees were magic to me as a child from a state with evergreens that lacked fall colors....

Photo Credits: Jeremiah Kane | AJR Productions AJR is an up and coming NYC-born pop band that has something to say about Great Salt Lake. The band–which is made up of brothers Adam, Jack, and Ryan–is in the middle of its 2024 tour around the United States, and...

We already knew that climate change is partially contributing to the decline of the Great Salt Lake. Thanks to recent research, we now know that the decline of the lake is reciprocally contributing to climate change as well.  In a new study published in the journal...

Our Great Salt Lake Ambassadors are leveraging their unique skills and background to grow the flow one person at a time. Ambassadors meet with a member of the Grow the Flow team to develop a personalized volunteer plan specific to their interests and availability....

While living in Utah, I’ve often heard people refer to the state as one huge desert. While deserts certainly cover large sections of Utah, the Wasatch Front is actually a semi-arid region–an important distinction. The primary difference between deserts and semi-arid...

Photo by Don Grayston You shouldn’t feel bad about taking a little extra time in the shower. In fact, indoor recreational water usage only takes about 5% of the overall state water usage. There's also evidence that indoor water usage will actually all make it into the...

Trucks move shipping containers at the Union Pacific Intermodal Terminal on Nov. 22, 2021 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images) Utah simply cannot catch a break from environmental injustice. Without fail, it seems, plans for development prevail...

Air pollution is a silent killer. We can’t always see it, we can’t smell it, we can’t hear it–yet it fills the lungs of 2.5 million Salt Lake Valley residents. Great Salt Lake’s decline has exposed 800 square-miles of lakebed, where toxic levels of arsenic, mercury,...

Even though the Utah Legislative session won’t start up again for another nine months, it’s never too early to start making plans for what policies we need changed. Because of that, here is a brief overview of how the Utah Legislative bodies operate. Utah state’s...

All Photos Credited to Mary Anne Karren “We don’t own Planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife” –Steve Erwin  Every year, the Great Salt Lake becomes a hub of activity as ten million birds descend upon its shores. Great Salt Lake’s...

Photo credits: Save Our Great Salt Lake   We had the opportunity to sit down with Nan Seymour from Save Our Great Salt Lake and River Writing and talk about her work with the Great Salt Lake Vigil. Lake-facing citizens hold this vigil twice a day through the Utah...

Brine shrimp—a crustacean native to Great Salt Lake—are about a centimeter in size. This makes them the largest animals that live in Great Salt Lake’s waters. Brine Shrimp survive by feeding on algae and are consumed by other crustaceans, fish, and birds around the...

All photos from Mary Anne Karren, used with permission This article was originally published on Mary Anne’s website, maryannekarren.org and has been republished with her permission. You may know that Great Salt Lake is essential for an astonishing 10-12 million...

There are a lot of things that Utah is known for. From strange alcohol laws, to its highly religious population, Utah stands out in many ways. One of the most concerning things that Utah is known for, however, is its air pollution. Up until this point, most of that...

Image Credit: Wolfgang Borchers on Pixabay Long before Brigham Young gazed over Salt Lake Valley and pronounced, “This is the right place”, many indigenous communities relied on the Great Salt Lake Basin. The Shoshone, Goshute, and Ute tribes depended predominantly on...

Photo: Carl Moore at Great Salt Lake, September 2023 by Teri HarmanSaving Great Salt Lake is not only about preserving water and vital ecosystems, but also protecting the legacy of human history. The Indigenous people of Utah were the first stewards of our saline...

Photo credit: Logan Gardner “The Great Salt Lake is drying up!” “Are we all going to die in 5 years?”    Maybe you’ve heard this statement or asked this question before. I have. If you’re not an ecologist, it can be hard to understand what’s actually going on....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Form a Citizen’s Lake Lobby of more than 100,000 members from all backgrounds. No amount of ecological work or legal scaffolding can replace the need to rehabilitate our relationship with Great Salt Lake. Sustained stewardship begins with affection and a change in our...

One of the major initiatives of Grow the Flow is to organize a diverse network of individuals, businesses, cities, and other organizations to work on changing the political landscape by increasing the political payoffs of prioritizing water conservation and the...