They only had a hundred years advance notice about this eventuality. Yet the people of Utah consistently elected people who denied such claims and ignored sensible solutions. There's still time for them to leave the state and find better pastures elsewhere. Enough subsidizing irresponsible life styles.
Yeah, because they try to bend the *desert* to their will. To make it bloom. It's not designed to bloom. Not like that, anyway. People are idiots. Especially here. Claiming that sky daddy will fix everything! I should fucking well think not after so many melinia!
The temp changes now are nothing in comparison to what they were say 1000 years ago, or 5000 years ago. Huge swings of say 20 degrees. Woolly mammoths were found with undigested food in their stomachs which would suggest flash freezing. Randall Carlson has been studying ice core samples and has interesting things to say..... worth a look. It would appear that this "climate change" is cyclic and inevitable ...... the governments use it to mold us and tax us ..... its all BS.
@@Ridethebomb777 You're missing the point entirely. I'm talking about about western water rights and usage. And I'm glad 1 person has convinced you that climate change isn't real. I tend to believe the majority of experts.
Why try and live with no impact? What other animal does that? The world and organisms on it will adapt to the changes humans makes, if that means a mass extinction and/or humans die off. Life will find away.
they're finally getting water meters? could they not have thought of that before the situation was so drastic? iirc just during this drought, you could plot the water level going down year by year, wouldn't take a genius to prepare for the worst case scenario preemptively in case it sticks to the trend, which it has.
I'm not following how subsidizing farms is a solution to over use... Aren't they like the first people to yell socialist? Seems to me the problem is solvable without giving a large group of hypocrites an ironic favor...a capitalist would say, sell your farm.
Water in a desert - cities in a desert - farms in a desert - water drying up. Might want to consider a different place for at least one big user of a scarce resource like Water ? This was always a Gamble for Americans. Feel free to move about the country.
meh, republicans are always like that, chanting the gospel mindlessly but when they are in need... suddenly socialism makes a lot of sense and is no problem at all, i know people exactly like that and if you watch jordan keppler and you will see there a lot of maga idiot s in rally's who just happen to live on social security.
@@youdonthavetoreadthispost.5850 love the very intelligent idea that one guy moving in another state will fix the problem, how about instead you use the last brain cell you have to really understand whats going on einstein.
I live 60 miles to the north of Salt Lake City. Any dust from the Great Salt Lake, will reach far and wide, and cross the borders of Utah, into other states. This is so late in the game to change the way we handle a disaster that we knew was coming, 20 years ago. Now we are in a 20 year drought cycle that has become so severe, our state government is buying back people's lawn turf, to save water. We have had decent snow this winter, but it won't even be a drop of the water we need to keep the lake from drying up. We are all, Utah as well as the rest of the country, in some serious trouble.
Don’t you love the all wise leaders in the state elected and bureaucrats alike who’s have done near ZERO? They react now and pretend they are being responsible.
In Perth Western Australia, we have to have low flushing toilets, all appliance are rated for energy and water usage. We are only allowed to water our garden in summer by reticulation on 2 allocated days per week. We are not allowed to use our reticulation in winter at all. We are not allowed to take water from rivers without a license and pay for the allocated amount we use. Same with bores. We grow drought hardened crops. We use potable water to refill our aquifers. We all live on this planet and what one person, one town, one state, one country does effects everyone. Start living up to your responsibilities as human beings.
How is your rant going to feed my black children? I have 14 and all 14 baby daddies missing dead or in jail!! These are issues that every black woman faces. Be more kind. We’re not all little miss prive. Be Mores like me.
As a Utah native there is only one solution. Since Governor Cox is in alfalfa farmer, he is vested in what is drying up Salt Lake. The federal government needs to step in and eminent domain all the farms that are diverting water to Salt Lake.
As a Utahan I can tell you it’s not bipartisan. We are a Republican state and the Republicans here don’t give a sh** about the lake. The maga Republicans are angry that the government wants to control their water use. In my neighborhood we weren’t supposed to water our lawns this summer and everyone with a trump flag had green grass. Then all the expensive multi-million dollars neighborhoods in Utah county didn’t even have water restrictions. Not to mention all the gardens around Mormon churches and temples that over use water. It’s so ridiculous here.
That's so sad. Years ago, for the hiking and skiing, I would have really loved to live in SLC. I can also remember enjoying a long hike around Antelope Island.
This summer antelope island was not an island there was no water between Davis county and the island (the causeway is dry). The buffalo were on the lake bed.
If people would take earth day seriously and open their doors with the Air conditioner on high (like is suggested). We could stop global warming in one day.
@@jonathanmorrison2225 How is your rant going to feed my black children? I have 14 and all 14 baby daddies missing dead or in jail!! These are issues that every black woman faces. Be more kind. We’re not all little miss prive. Be Mores like me.
Same thing with Lake mead... Irresponsible use of the water in a desert! Yeah, let's do a whole bunch of farming, growing real grass in the desert! BRILLIANT! Oh, and in Las Vegas, let's run those pretty fountains. Those are totally important! It'll only be a matter of time before they're piping water from the Mississippi! Hmph!
@@user-tf2ls7jb4m yeah but the point I'm making is that the stupid stuff in the desert like growing grass and farming is bad enough because it's the desert and if there's gonna be extreme drought conditions, we might want to put that stuff on hold. And fountains too. I get they're pretty and all but there's much better need/use for the water.
I wonder how many ballots checked off for Kari Lake ended up in the bottom of a lake. Kari was such a star that sabotaging the voting machines wasn't enough to steal it.
How is your rant going to feed my black children? I have 14 and all 14 baby daddies missing dead or in jail!! These are issues that every black woman faces. Be more kind. We’re not all little miss prive. Be Mores like me.
Were prioritizing a minority of companies oil and gas over human needs to drink water, give water to farm animals and the crops. Seriously, folks push away politicians who aren't taking climate change seriously. Climate change will make us pay now or later. It's better to invest now so we don't gotta use do much money in repairing the damage.
Was Biden and the Democrats taking climate change seriously when they blew up the Nordstream pipelines? It's only the biggest man made ecological disaster in world history.
We'll pay later. Right now we're focused on culture wars. Besides, we can always blame migrants, gays, transgendered people, liberals, Twitter executives, school boards, and scientists for all of society's problems.
Do they believe it'll be sufficient just to limit water use from the Great Salt Lake, or do they believe they'll have to find new sources of water to feed the Great Salt Lake? If they need new sources to feed the Great Salt Lake, what might those new sources be?
If only Bill gates would invest in this... cough cough. He bought 70% of the farmland. We need to make him make some lakes lol he surely can afford it after covid
@@Transblackgoddess is that supposed to make any kind of sense ? learn english before trying to write it ? not being racist here but being able to understand is the basis of language.
No, not really. The Salton Sea is manmade. Before around 1900, it was a dry lake bed. It formed after the Colorado River was diverted and water temporarily and unintentionally flowed into the lake bed. After they corrected the diversion, it was runoff from farms that kept it full. However, as the amount of manufactured chemicals used on farms increased, the runoff made the lake more and more toxic to where it eventually started killing off all life. Now that California is in a drought, there isn't the runoff from farms anymore. So the lake is returning to what it was 120+ years ago; only full of toxic elements that are now becoming airborne.
@@t-bonestickyfingers1336 CNN an U all needs Be to pay Reparations so my black kidSs can eat. All they baby daddies dead or in jail. I need be compiscated for my fieldS work.
I live a few miles east of the lake. It's sad the we have let greedy land developers continue to keep building more homes with HOAs that require lush green lawns and new golf courses that divert water that would flow to the GSL. Fortunately, we have had a really good winter with heavy snow fall in the mountains. It will help with the lake level, but won't solve the problem. Also, thousands or maybe millions of waterfowl rely on the wetlands around the lake during their migrations.
Do the experts know that Salt lake was once a huge ocean that has drying up for thousands of years? That's why it's salty. Bonneville salt FLATS was all ocean at one time. Adapt. 4 billion years of Climate Change.
Little Manitou, located near Watrous, has a mineral density three times saltier than the oceans, so you either look at the healing properties and float, or learn how to make water. Can't be more simple than that.
@@steama And by the way I’ve lived on the Wasatch Front 40 years. 12 years ago the lake was flooding farmland out west and in the 80’s they installed pumps because it got so high.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
The world isn't going extinct. 99 Percent of all living things on the world went extinct already. Our we any different. Life always finds a way. Me tinks
No amount of money can stop this. It would be a complete waste of money. Instead they should should use the money that they are talking about using and "Slowly" relocate everyone to new location/city. So two cities. One is slowly dieing and the other getting bigger and stronger everyday
It's extreme overcrowding. To them the land is empty till it's built up like a city with people stacked one hundred stories up. They expect the people to live like gerbils in a cage with a little running wheel and food dishes.
We have taken cheap energy and clean water for granted for too long. The price we will have to pay will have to be higher unless we change. I mean, we still flush our toilets with drinking water FFS!
How is your rant going to feed my black children? I have 14 and all 14 baby daddies missing dead or in jail!! These are issues that every black woman faces. Be more kind. We’re not all little miss prive. Be Mores like me.
Why is he reporting from St. George? That is about 400 miles away from Salt Lake. That would the same as doing a story on the Statue of Liberty from Buffalo, New York. However, St. George is one hour away from Las Vegas. That's just lazy reporting, which makes you wonder how lazy they got reporting the rest of the issue.
Key word is dust… they are not grabbing up that sand amd eating it or licking their boots, but once it dries and turn to dust, it can travel hundreds of miles with heavy metals, that can enter your lungs, causing cancer and other issues….
@@theempirestate6982 The gound is stil wet and the conditions for a duststorm/heavy dust migration has not yet been met. It will happen after longer draught periods if a storm then comes along. This is something that happens over many years.
A huge decades long drought and empty reservoirs. And now an empty basin that needs to be filled with brine? It seems like ocean pipelines to the Great Salt Lake and desalination would solve a lot of problems. We're not going to magically get more water for all these people. The rain and snow will never be enough, even without the drought.
"What shall ye sow...so shall ye reap." Now if any place on earth shouldn't need to be told that one. Utah...like seriously. A case of talking the talk and failing to walk the walk?...that I'll leave to you to decide.
Apparently, no echo system on the face of the Earth is allowed to evolve or change without it "destroying humanity." Aaaaah run for your lives it's a dry lake.
This is a global issue----Lake Baikal in Siberia was once the worlds'largest ,deepest freshwater lake. It is now but a spit on the map of Asia. The North Aral sea has dried up. This has happened mainly in the last 60 years,hugely assisted by farming practices and hydro statioins---supporting collectivised cities. The crises seem to occur wherever massive populations have developed to sustain their own growth but sadly not sustain the "free" resource. The solution has to lie in recognising that water comes from a cycle----and the solution also must come from the cycle---and that can be confronting at first; For example many Londeners drink water from re-cycled human waste. The Real world calls for Real solutions( no pun) But where else would you get a more stunning example that an individual cannot live in isolation from another individual!
@@BMrider75 My son Dante ain’t locked up. He knees to eat. My other 13 sons locked up so they ok. I knees to feed Dante. His daddy locked up. You pay for fried chickens?
No. The lake used to be bigger, that's true. A little less than 20,000 years ago, the lake was about the size of Lake Michigan. But it didn't evaporate. An ice dam gave way and a massive flood carved its way into the ocean. Evaporation isn't the problem here. It's water mismanagement coupled with manmade climate change.
That's why we having so much problems with our weather. Because the Lord God almighty made the world and put things just right..and men come along saying we need to move this and that. This is how it should be. That's how we're. God says water. Men drain the lake and say no lake. God says no rain in some parts of the world. Men say no. Let's make our own rain clouds..
Something that surprised me moving to SLC is how they don't care about the environment. The skies are disgustingly polluted especially in the winter but NO EV incentive. In fact they hate EVs here due to oil lobyists. Utah lake and Great Salt Lake are so pulluted from local mining you can't swim in them. Groundwater is super polluted due to the big copper mine that used to let the arcenic just go into the groundwater and into great salt lake. Lake is 1/3rd full and if it goes more empty it will expose the arsenic that the state has allowed to flow into it. It can possibly make SLC a ghost town someday. Reply
Human greed will be the death of us all.
What happened to the rainforrests and lakes of Africa? Did someone idle their semi truck too long a thousand years ago? Too many cows fart?
human stupidity! fund a clean energy source. instead off the band aids all the time.
Many things come down to greed. The upside is that we'll make it to the end of civilization if this continues. No worries for me after that 🥳
Then stop being so greedy.
I don't know any other animal on the planet who is going forward to extinction even as they know how to change it. Just effing pitiful.
They only had a hundred years advance notice about this eventuality. Yet the people of Utah consistently elected people who denied such claims and ignored sensible solutions. There's still time for them to leave the state and find better pastures elsewhere. Enough subsidizing irresponsible life styles.
Yeah, because they try to bend the *desert* to their will. To make it bloom. It's not designed to bloom. Not like that, anyway. People are idiots. Especially here. Claiming that sky daddy will fix everything! I should fucking well think not after so many melinia!
What are your thoughts on California and the record rainfall they got and let go to waste?
@@jondough4682 Was that you who took a selfie looking up into the rain with your mouth open?
Detroit one of the most abandoned cities over the past 50 years is also one of the most sustainable places to live, but no one wants to redevelop it
@horace sheffield maybe it prevents rising sea levels. You know the thing democrats bitch about?
We have had decades to figure this out. People just get stupider and more overpopulated.
The temp changes now are nothing in comparison to what they were say 1000 years ago, or 5000 years ago. Huge swings of say 20 degrees. Woolly mammoths were found with undigested food in their stomachs which would suggest flash freezing. Randall Carlson has been studying ice core samples and has interesting things to say..... worth a look.
It would appear that this "climate change" is cyclic and inevitable ...... the governments use it to mold us and tax us ..... its all BS.
@@Ridethebomb777 You're missing the point entirely. I'm talking about about western water rights and usage.
And I'm glad 1 person has convinced you that climate change isn't real. I tend to believe the majority of experts.
Why try and live with no impact? What other animal does that? The world and organisms on it will adapt to the changes humans makes, if that means a mass extinction and/or humans die off. Life will find away.
@@MayMarmaid no, I’m realistic.
they're finally getting water meters? could they not have thought of that before the situation was so drastic? iirc just during this drought, you could plot the water level going down year by year, wouldn't take a genius to prepare for the worst case scenario preemptively in case it sticks to the trend, which it has.
All they need to do is pour more water in then throw sum table salt in the water. Lmao
They are Republicans. They see this as more places to drive a truck.
I predict the water meters will be tampered with to show low water usage.
@Jon Boat Vroom, vrooooom! Pew, pew, pew! Yeehaw! So manly!
Thoughts and prayers ain't gonna fix this one.
💯
I'm not following how subsidizing farms is a solution to over use... Aren't they like the first people to yell socialist? Seems to me the problem is solvable without giving a large group of hypocrites an ironic favor...a capitalist would say, sell your farm.
Water in a desert - cities in a desert - farms in a desert - water drying up.
Might want to consider a different place for at least one big user of a scarce resource like Water ? This was always a Gamble for Americans. Feel free to move about the country.
meh, republicans are always like that, chanting the gospel mindlessly but when they are in need... suddenly socialism makes a lot of sense and is no problem at all, i know people exactly like that and if you watch jordan keppler and you will see there a lot of maga idiot s in rally's who just happen to live on social security.
@@youdonthavetoreadthispost.5850 love the very intelligent idea that one guy moving in another state will fix the problem, how about instead you use the last brain cell you have to really understand whats going on einstein.
@@kaladan1890 Stick to your moniker and I will stick to mine. have another crazy day !
I live 60 miles to the north of Salt Lake City. Any dust from the Great Salt Lake, will reach far and wide, and cross the borders of Utah, into other states. This is so late in the game to change the way we handle a disaster that we knew was coming, 20 years ago. Now we are in a 20 year drought cycle that has become so severe, our state government is buying back people's lawn turf, to save water. We have had decent snow this winter, but it won't even be a drop of the water we need to keep the lake from drying up. We are all, Utah as well as the rest of the country, in some serious trouble.
Don’t you love the all wise leaders in the state elected and bureaucrats alike who’s have done near ZERO? They react now and pretend they are being responsible.
In Perth Western Australia, we have to have low flushing toilets, all appliance are rated for energy and water usage. We are only allowed to water our garden in summer by reticulation on 2 allocated days per week. We are not allowed to use our reticulation in winter at all. We are not allowed to take water from rivers without a license and pay for the allocated amount we use. Same with bores. We grow drought hardened crops. We use potable water to refill our aquifers.
We all live on this planet and what one person, one town, one state, one country does effects everyone. Start living up to your responsibilities as human beings.
Climate change deniers have been telling us we'll adapt. Well, better get to adapting.
How is your rant going to feed my black children? I have 14 and all 14 baby daddies missing dead or in jail!! These are issues that every black woman faces. Be more kind. We’re not all little miss prive. Be Mores like me.
@@Transblackgoddess lame
Not deny anything. Earths climate has changed since it began. It's you clowns that make money selling something that can't be changed.
@@dragony1640 true. But we are accelerating climate change well beyond our adaptive capabilities.
Reptillians, dinosaures, ice age giants, mammals fast or slow didn't adapt. Sometimes it just worked that way.
This is what the people of Utah chose. Buy the ticket take the ride. I do feel terribly for the animals who will suffer because of our selfishness
How did the people of Utah create the drought? Maybe the Mormons need to pray harder 🤷🏻♀️
Animals drink salt water?
@@jonathanmorrison2225 Animals breathe air, too.
@@srso4660 who runs the state? Republicans and we all know how famous they are for not caring about environmental issues like this lol
@@Hardbody217 But they don’t drink salt water. That was what I meant
Wow that lake is one of many Earth wonders it's a shame what we've done to this planet🤔
The five ice ages were wondrous too. Climate Change melted and created global ice five times.
1. Stop watering lawns. Stop growing hay. Stop building more houses.
stop breathing my air?
Geez! Why don't the farmers change to be Salt sellers?? ? The price of salt should go down now!
You must have missed the reference to the toxicity of what remains.
There are a lot of poisonous Che,iCals in the lake salts
As a Utah native there is only one solution. Since Governor Cox is in alfalfa farmer, he is vested in what is drying up Salt Lake. The federal government needs to step in and eminent domain all the farms that are diverting water to Salt Lake.
He wanted to give magnacorp a green light to pump out more water too.
As a Utahan I can tell you it’s not bipartisan. We are a Republican state and the Republicans here don’t give a sh** about the lake. The maga Republicans are angry that the government wants to control their water use. In my neighborhood we weren’t supposed to water our lawns this summer and everyone with a trump flag had green grass. Then all the expensive multi-million dollars neighborhoods in Utah county didn’t even have water restrictions. Not to mention all the gardens around Mormon churches and temples that over use water. It’s so ridiculous here.
That's so sad. Years ago, for the hiking and skiing, I would have really loved to live in SLC. I can also remember enjoying a long hike around Antelope Island.
This summer antelope island was not an island there was no water between Davis county and the island (the causeway is dry). The buffalo were on the lake bed.
Greed kills us all
They're diverting the water from going in the Great salt lake
Humanity is at code red beware we ain't seen nothing yet . Get it together people .
If people would take earth day seriously and open their doors with the Air conditioner on high (like is suggested). We could stop global warming in one day.
@@jonathanmorrison2225 Yuk yuk yuk
@@jonathanmorrison2225 How is your rant going to feed my black children? I have 14 and all 14 baby daddies missing dead or in jail!! These are issues that every black woman faces. Be more kind. We’re not all little miss prive. Be Mores like me.
@@Transblackgoddess my wife is black and she doesn’t have 14 kids.
@@jonathanmorrison2225 Outlier.
Water is life.
Same thing with Lake mead... Irresponsible use of the water in a desert! Yeah, let's do a whole bunch of farming, growing real grass in the desert! BRILLIANT! Oh, and in Las Vegas, let's run those pretty fountains. Those are totally important! It'll only be a matter of time before they're piping water from the Mississippi! Hmph!
desalination of the ocean
@@shaystern2453 Yah, we've ruined everything else - now let's work on the ocean!
Mississippi is running lower too lmao
@@user-tf2ls7jb4m yeah but the point I'm making is that the stupid stuff in the desert like growing grass and farming is bad enough because it's the desert and if there's gonna be extreme drought conditions, we might want to put that stuff on hold. And fountains too. I get they're pretty and all but there's much better need/use for the water.
@@shaystern2453 I don't know if that's the best idea... But there again, what do I know? Lol
That's not a lake. It's a nasty bug infested puddle.
Too little, too late.
If only the Kari Lake would Dry up And blow away. MAGA.
she is a dried up has been
that would pollute the world.
You win the internet today.
I wonder how many ballots checked off for Kari Lake ended up in the bottom of a lake. Kari was such a star that sabotaging the voting machines wasn't enough to steal it.
How is your rant going to feed my black children? I have 14 and all 14 baby daddies missing dead or in jail!! These are issues that every black woman faces. Be more kind. We’re not all little miss prive. Be Mores like me.
It’s salt water; pump some ocean water in there.😂
Sure... all salt water is the same. That will work.
Unchecked water use is more the problem than evaporation, and a lack of rain for fresh water.
Were prioritizing a minority of companies oil and gas over human needs to drink water, give water to farm animals and the crops.
Seriously, folks push away politicians who aren't taking climate change seriously.
Climate change will make us pay now or later. It's better to invest now so we don't gotta use do much money in repairing the damage.
Was Biden and the Democrats taking climate change seriously when they blew up the Nordstream pipelines? It's only the biggest man made ecological disaster in world history.
CNN an U all needs Be to pay Reparations so my black kidSs can eat. All they baby daddies dead or in jail. I need be compiscated for my fieldS work.
We'll pay later. Right now we're focused on culture wars. Besides, we can always blame migrants, gays, transgendered people, liberals, Twitter executives, school boards, and scientists for all of society's problems.
Wasn’t climate change supposed to make the water rise.
There is very little farming in that state. 5 families OWN all the drinking water that flows into the Salt Lake Valley.
Do they believe it'll be sufficient just to limit water use from the Great Salt Lake, or do they believe they'll have to find new sources of water to feed the Great Salt Lake? If they need new sources to feed the Great Salt Lake, what might those new sources be?
They need to undo climate change, and that ain’t happening
If only Bill gates would invest in this... cough cough. He bought 70% of the farmland. We need to make him make some lakes lol he surely can afford it after covid
How about a Canal running from idaho to Utah? Makes total sense if you pay attention to the Rest of the Story.
just get the republicans around the lake and make them lose another presidential election, beware it could easily overflow.
@@kaladan1890 🤣
Why can’t we pump ocean water and top it off?
Similar thing is happening to the Salton Sea in southeast California.
Auto makers are going after the lithium salt there.
They should just refill it with the tears of twitter users.
Actual Jake needs Be to pay Reparations so my black kidSs can eat. All they baby daddies dead or in jail. I need be compiscated for my fieldS work.
MAGA tears
@@Transblackgoddess is that supposed to make any kind of sense ? learn english before trying to write it ? not being racist here but being able to understand is the basis of language.
@@kaladan1890 I knees be paid for my field work. What’s o your venmo? Cash app? I need both and your money. My son Carl gone eat this weekend
It's Utahs fault for diverting all the Rivers Water away from Lake
People won’t realize the earth is all we have until we no longer even have that. Which is EVERYTHING.
Isn’t this the same thing that happened at the Salton Sea in CA?
No, not really. The Salton Sea is manmade. Before around 1900, it was a dry lake bed. It formed after the Colorado River was diverted and water temporarily and unintentionally flowed into the lake bed. After they corrected the diversion, it was runoff from farms that kept it full. However, as the amount of manufactured chemicals used on farms increased, the runoff made the lake more and more toxic to where it eventually started killing off all life. Now that California is in a drought, there isn't the runoff from farms anymore. So the lake is returning to what it was 120+ years ago; only full of toxic elements that are now becoming airborne.
@@RuthB51 You are a genius, i was thinking was the hell happened to the lake, your explanation has given me the answers.
I have a Mohave desert arrowhead/atlatl point dropped in lake Mohave by paleo indians 14,500 years ago.
But you don't
@@t-bonestickyfingers1336 CNN an U all needs Be to pay Reparations so my black kidSs can eat. All they baby daddies dead or in jail. I need be compiscated for my fieldS work.
I live a few miles east of the lake. It's sad the we have let greedy land developers continue to keep building more homes with HOAs that require lush green lawns and new golf courses that divert water that would flow to the GSL.
Fortunately, we have had a really good winter with heavy snow fall in the mountains. It will help with the lake level, but won't solve the problem.
Also, thousands or maybe millions of waterfowl rely on the wetlands around the lake during their migrations.
It has been dying for over 1000 years. No politician can save a dead lake, the only thing a politician can do is pick economic winners and losers.
Toxic water was in half of the salt lake. So it was toxic to begin with.
I've been vaping for 30 years I think we're good people!
For those who doubt, ask the Russians where the Aral Sea went.
I remember you from RT. You clowns had to go somewhere, I guess.
Do the experts know that Salt lake was once a huge ocean that has drying up for thousands of years? That's why it's salty. Bonneville salt FLATS was all ocean at one time. Adapt. 4 billion years of Climate Change.
@@vp4744 witnessing the end of an era doesn't mean it's been accelerated.
@@KaiserBlade Not everyone feels the accelation, like some idjiot phucks.
Little Manitou, located near Watrous, has a mineral density three times saltier than the oceans, so you either look at the healing properties and float, or learn how to make water. Can't be more simple than that.
Don Lemon screams at a woman till she cry's
CNN looks away
The water is still receding from the great flood dude, relax.
Can't they just use a cheat code to spawn more water into the lake like they do with money?
When they do snow removal they should be trucking it to an area close to there an let it melt into the lake
and do it at night when the snow won't melt all over the conveyor belts
And cover it with reflective blankets, so it melts slowly into the ground and does not evaporate
pollution.
Utah doesn't do that they just shove the snow to the side. They don't remove it into other trucks.
too much salt on the roads to put it near a lake.
Great Dustbowl II, "The Toxic Timebomb".
CNN an U all needs Be to pay Reparations so my black kidSs can eat. All they baby daddies dead or in jail. I need be compiscated for my fieldS work.
That lake stunk 35 years ago
It’ll come up this spring. Utah has a good snowpack this year; something they haven’t had in about 5 years.
That is if people don’t start harvesting the ice pack for their own supplies.
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Never said it would solve the problem, but it will help
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And by the way I’ve lived on the Wasatch Front 40 years. 12 years ago the lake was flooding farmland out west and in the 80’s they installed pumps because it got so high.
They need snowpack for many more years to make up the loss. This is like a 10 year drought
@@G274Meit will buy another year
Downwind, Denver, Chicago, East Coast.
Sadly humans aren’t acting nearly quickly enough to turn around the damage we’ve done to our home planet. If it’s not already too late
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
The world isn't going extinct. 99 Percent of all living things on the world went extinct already. Our we any different. Life always finds a way. Me tinks
No amount of money can stop this. It would be a complete waste of money. Instead they should should use the money that they are talking about using and "Slowly" relocate everyone to new location/city. So two cities. One is slowly dieing and the other getting bigger and stronger everyday
The lakes in Southern California disappeared that’s recent proof and health problems people are having now
It's extreme overcrowding. To them the land is empty till it's built up like a city with people stacked one hundred stories up. They expect the people to live like gerbils in a cage with a little running wheel and food dishes.
We should send more money to Ukraine, that will stop it for sure.
keep filling the pools, washing the cars, watering lawns, etc
Don't look up.
We have taken cheap energy and clean water for granted for too long. The price we will have to pay will have to be higher unless we change. I mean, we still flush our toilets with drinking water FFS!
CNN an U all needs Be to pay Reparations so my black kidSs can eat. All they baby daddies dead or in jail. I need be compiscated for my fieldS work.
Dig a cannel from the ocean to the lake, will help combat sea level rise as well.
Great Salt Lake = Great Salt Pond = Great Salt Puddle = Great Salt......plains
Great Central Wasteland
Looooook at allllll those building and houses. If they weren’t there. The water would be way deeper.
Things like this is only reason Utah is ever in the news anyway.. just let it go.....
Time to ramp up efforts to lower the cost of converting salt water into potable water.
We should be piping water to cities from the ocean the Colorado river is history.
time for global Manhattan projekt in clean energy sources
A bit too late? The damage is done!
Well the volume of water on earth doesn't change. It's just moved on to other places. City people just ruin everything.
Over the last two years how many more people showed up from all over the world to live in the South West. Millions.
How is your rant going to feed my black children? I have 14 and all 14 baby daddies missing dead or in jail!! These are issues that every black woman faces. Be more kind. We’re not all little miss prive. Be Mores like me.
Complete BULLS
Probably should move ,
Really? Didn't see that one coming. Yes we did. Humanity lays waste to too much of the earth, with no regard for the consequences.
Why is he reporting from St. George? That is about 400 miles away from Salt Lake. That would the same as doing a story on the Statue of Liberty from Buffalo, New York. However, St. George is one hour away from Las Vegas. That's just lazy reporting, which makes you wonder how lazy they got reporting the rest of the issue.
Just wondering why they are standing in the lake if it is toxic
Key word is dust… they are not grabbing up that sand amd eating it or licking their boots, but once it dries and turn to dust, it can travel hundreds of miles with heavy metals, that can enter your lungs, causing cancer and other issues….
If it’s not windy and being blown up it’s not an issue. It’s when wind storms hit and blow the dust into the air that it becomes a problem.
@@timpeterjensen2364 the wind was blowing in the clip also
@@theempirestate6982 The gound is stil wet and the conditions for a duststorm/heavy dust migration has not yet been met. It will happen after longer draught periods if a storm then comes along. This is something that happens over many years.
forget the talking,start pumping the sea water ..
1:04 centuries of toxic runoff😞 2:02 California Owens Lake drained for LA 2:59 Great Salt Lake Strike Team water conservation messaging 👍
A huge decades long drought and empty reservoirs. And now an empty basin that needs to be filled with brine?
It seems like ocean pipelines to the Great Salt Lake and desalination would solve a lot of problems.
We're not going to magically get more water for all these people. The rain and snow will never be enough, even without the drought.
Well, I guess it's back to wandering around d the praries and deserts 🏜 waiting for Jesus to come back.
The clues are in front of our eyes but we are focused on the fly on the wall
"What shall ye sow...so shall ye reap."
Now if any place on earth shouldn't need to be told that one. Utah...like seriously.
A case of talking the talk and failing to walk the walk?...that I'll leave to you to decide.
Even the earth, dosen't like Utah.
Watching as the planet dies.
The planet won't die. WE might, and lots of species might, but the planet will be fine.
A lake drying up results in the death of the planet? You don't know much about geological history....do you.
Windmills and their ocean exploraion kill Bald Eagles, Whales, California Conders, Other Birds and Animals. Me tinks
Apparently, no echo system on the face of the Earth is allowed to evolve or change without it "destroying humanity." Aaaaah run for your lives it's a dry lake.
This is a global issue----Lake Baikal in Siberia was once the worlds'largest ,deepest freshwater lake.
It is now but a spit on the map of Asia.
The North Aral sea has dried up.
This has happened mainly in the last 60 years,hugely assisted by farming practices and hydro statioins---supporting collectivised cities.
The crises seem to occur wherever massive populations have developed to sustain their own growth but sadly not sustain the "free" resource.
The solution has to lie in recognising that water comes from a cycle----and the solution also must come from the cycle---and that can be confronting at first;
For example many Londeners drink water from re-cycled human waste.
The Real world calls for Real solutions( no pun)
But where else would you get a more stunning example that an individual cannot live in isolation from another individual!
Good report CNN
CNN an U all needs Be to pay Reparations so my black kidSs can eat. All they baby daddies dead or in jail. I need be compiscated for my fieldS work.
@@Transblackgoddess begone, vile troll!
@@BMrider75 My son Dante ain’t locked up. He knees to eat. My other 13 sons locked up so they ok. I knees to feed Dante. His daddy locked up. You pay for fried chickens?
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@@BMrider75 you Knees to feed my kids friend Chickens!
Start loading water trucks with ocean water.
You reap what you sow...r.i.p humans
CNN an U all needs Be to pay Reparations so my black kidSs can eat. All they baby daddies dead or in jail. I need be compiscated for my fieldS work.
Haven't this lake been evaporating for hundreds of not thousands of years though?!?!
No. The lake used to be bigger, that's true. A little less than 20,000 years ago, the lake was about the size of Lake Michigan. But it didn't evaporate. An ice dam gave way and a massive flood carved its way into the ocean. Evaporation isn't the problem here. It's water mismanagement coupled with manmade climate change.
So what? It's worthless anyway
Maybe people are starting to pay attention.
That's why we having so much problems with our weather. Because the Lord God almighty made the world and put things just right..and men come along saying we need to move this and that. This is how it should be. That's how we're. God says water. Men drain the lake and say no lake. God says no rain in some parts of the world. Men say no. Let's make our own rain clouds..
Something that surprised me moving to SLC is how they don't care about the environment. The skies are disgustingly polluted especially in the winter but NO EV incentive. In fact they hate EVs here due to oil lobyists. Utah lake and Great Salt Lake are so pulluted from local mining you can't swim in them. Groundwater is super polluted due to the big copper mine that used to let the arcenic just go into the groundwater and into great salt lake. Lake is 1/3rd full and if it goes more empty it will expose the arsenic that the state has allowed to flow into it. It can possibly make SLC a ghost town someday.
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I cant believe this guy still has a job there.
Couple of things we humans are good at are killing and polluting
I’ll send Utah a bottle of water....
We all know that in America, The DOLLAR & BUSINESS come first
The end is here might as well have a good time lol
The end is coming
It will be cheaper to drain the river by building channels to the sea.
Funny when you fly in to salt lake there are subdivisions and golf courses built on the lakes current shores