The Great Salt Lake that is. I was having my morning coffee & bad news today and came across this piece about the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Seems it's well on its way to gone.
When I was there in 2017 the receding water levels was already quite noticeable.
The lake has no outlets and is fed by snowmelt from the surrounding mountains. Problem is, it has to compete with Salt Lake City for the water and as people divert more the lake gets smaller.
The only way to reverse its decline would be for less water to be diverted. Good thing Salt Lake City is one of fastest growing urban areas in the country.
There's a silver arsenic lining to all this though, when the lake is finally gone the wind will pick up arsenic laced dust from the dry lakebed and carry it into Salt Lake City.
I have a deep appreciation for the absurd and people moving to an area that's going to become a parched, toxic wasteland seems like high art.
These photos were all taken from Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake in 2017. It'll soon be Antelope Peninsula if the lake drops much more.
There's a bison herd on the island, I wonder if they'll just wander into town when that happens.
Anybody want to make book on when the next dust bowl starts? The western US is deep in an epic drought, it shouldn't be too much longer now.
What do we do when there's nothing left to take?
