The Great Salt Lake is almost gone

 The Great Salt Lake is within five years of completely disappearing (cities and farms have been taking almost all the water that used to flow into the lake). This will likely become an ecological disaster, with likelihood of toxic metals blowing (in sandstorms off the lakebed) into the cities, which already have very bad air quality due to terrain-based inversions made worse by human air pollution, and the possible loss of entire species of birds.

We must change the way we live, or maybe move tens of millions of people out of the desert areas, if they cannot adapt properly to care for their area.

NPR article here.





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