'It’s time for all Utahns to let their elected officials know they too care about the future of the lake and expect action right away,' writes the Editorial Board.
to Antelope Island, and included some $400 million for various water conservation projects and $45 million specifically aimed at Great Salt Lake preservation., sponsored by Brigham City Republican Rep. Joel Ferry. The bill would let water rights holders — farmers, mostly — allow water they would otherwise be entitled to use to flow on downstream without losing any of their claims to future water.
At issue is something called “secondary water.” That’s H2O that is not treated for household use but used for irrigation and purposes other than drinking. In most parts of the country, such water flows through domestic water systems and is billed to its end users, providing a market signal that should encourage people to be careful with it. But Utah runs that water through another — secondary — system that escapes metering.
So not only is there no incentive to be frugal with that water, there is also no good measure of how much is being used. Sagers’ bill would get a handle on that, a plan that would be assisted by the governor’s plan to spend $200 million to finally start metering secondary water use. Together, the Sagers and Ferry bills have the advantage of being attractive to political conservatives andas they use payments and fees, rather than command and control, to push behavior in the desired direction.
Given the Great Salt Lake’s importance to the local economy, to millions of migratory birds and to the lungs of people all along the Wasatch — as a desiccated lake will expose generations of toxic silt to the wind — all of these steps are the least we can do to reverse the decline of that body of salty water.they too care about the future of the lake and expect action right away.
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