It was only three months ago that nearly three dozen scientists and conservationists sounded the alarm that the Great Salt Lake in Utah faces “unprecedented danger.”
Unless the state’s lawmakers fast-tracked “emergency measures” to dramatically increase the lake’s inflow by 2024, it would likely disappear in the next five years.
Now, after an incredible winter full of rain and snow, there is a glimmer of hope on North America’s largest terminal lake. (A terminal lake is a lake with no outlet.)
Water levels had fallen to a record-low last fall amid a historic, climate change-fueled drought across the West.
As of Thursday, the snowpack in the Great Salt Lake basin was more than double the average for this time of year. (CNN)
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