Senator and Utah House speaker led state officials and legislators on a tour of the shrinking lake, talking about the peril facing it and potential solutions.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, marveled at them.
Wilson and Romney led state officials and Utah legislators on a tour of the lake Friday, talking about the peril facing it and potential solutions. They spoke to FOX 13 News while taking airboats out onto the lake. Dust blows off dry lakebed of the Great Salt Lake as seen from Farmington Bay on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022., presenting an ecological crisis for the state.
“What you’re going to see is a hierarchy of the kinds of things we can do, and they’re going to be the things that are the least expensive to those that are very, very expensive,” he said. “I hope the least expensive things, which is conservation of various kinds, bringing new technology for agriculture, those kinds of things will allow us to solve the problem here at the lake.”
The Utah Legislature this year allocated a half-billion for water conservation measures, including $40 million to a pair of environmental groups, creating a trust to secure water for the Great Salt Lake. They can buy or lease water from rights holders in the area. In a“The half a billion dollars we invested in water and the Great Salt Lake last legislative session is just a good start,” he said Friday.
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