The Great Salt Lake is a terminal lake, meaning it receives runoff from a vast drainage basin spanning northern Utah and parts of three other states. Once water gets to the lake, though ...

According to Deputy Great Salt Lake Commissioner, Tim Davis, Great Salt Lake legislation is working at restoring the lake.

Two recent studies have suggested a dangerous level of toxic dust is being spread through the Salt Lake Valley as the Great Salt Lake continues to have waxing and waning water levels.

"It’s 100-plus years of water law we are now working with and putting tweaks in," said Wade Garrett, who works for the Utah Farm Bureau and farms himself on the edge of the Great Salt Lake Basin ...

The Great Lakes rely on precipitation for replenishment. Each lake is surrounded by a drainage basin - an area of land where water from rain or snowmelt drains downhill into a body of water (in ...

The Great Salt Lake is doing better than it was just a couple ... to pay farmers along the river to fallow crops, but lower-basin states have also agreed to significant cuts.

SALT LAKE CITY ... with everybody in the basin to get more water to the lake,” Davis said. Davis noted things can change from year to year. Regardless, he said Utahns can and have already made an ...

Above: Satellite view of the Great ... their drainage basin. They hold about 6 quadrillion gallons of water, or enough to blanket the entire U.S. to a depth of over 9 feet! Each lake, and their ...

House Speaker Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, recalled a time of foreboding for Utah two years ago when salinity levels at the Great Salt Lake were 18. ... The seven basin states within the Colorado River ...

A 36-inch outfall pipe will be installed on an existing outfall to increase capacity of the drainage ... a lake. Attempting to construct a retention pond on any land in the Pensacola basin is ...

The Salton Sea is one of the most environmentally significant places in California. The area attracts visitors wanting to ...