Remember the 25 million going to study why the Great Salt Lake is drying upin the omnibus bill

[tyroneweaver]

My goodness look at these snow pack levels. I bet this will be buried.

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[ReinyDays]

You do know that 3 days is the scientific limit to weather forecasting ... right? ... if you have something better you should publish ...

ETA: It's Republicans turn now ... will the House send one, just one, appropriations bill to the Senate? ....

 

[rightwinger]

Not even close to replenishing The Great Salt Lake

 

[Thinker101]

Utah cities use far more water than other western cities. In Salt Lake City, citizens use 240 gallons of water per person per day. Compare that to Tucson, Arizona, where residents use 120 gallons per person per day, and Denver, which has an average usage rate of 142 gallons, according to the Utah Rivers Council. These use tiered water pricing, which makes it cheaper for residents who use less water. In the case of Tucson, residents pay $2 per 1,000 gallons used. But when they start to use 5,000 gallons, the price doubles—and then doubles again at 12,000 gallons.

Now let’s look at Sandy, Utah, where it costs less than $2 for the first 5,000 gallons but costs $2.53 for anything up to 35,000 gallons used, according to data collected by the Utah Rivers Council. That pricing is about five times less than Tucson water. Salt Lake City uses tiered pricing but starts and ends at the same cost as Sandy. St. George, which has 11 golf courses, charges close to $1 for 5,000 gallons of water per month and just over $2 for up to 50,000 gallons. Moab starts charging $1 for water at 3,500 gallons, but pricing is flat at $2 after 10,000 gallons and beyond.

Even if major conservation efforts are made across the state, the Great Salt Lake will still be doomed if the state pulls the trigger on the $2.4 billion Bear River project, which would create as many as 30 reservoirs that siphon off 220,000 acre-feet of water to serve five water conservation districts, says Lynn de Freitas, director of the FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake, a nonprofit that has been trying to protect the lake for 20-plus years. The lake gets the lion’s share of its water from the Bear River.

Who’s to blame for our Great Salt Lake problem?.

 

[Muhammed]

Not even close to replenishing The Great Salt Lake

What do you consider to be replenished?

 

[lennypartiv]

Not even close to replenishing The Great Salt Lake

There's no law that says we have to.

 

[rightwinger]

There's no law that says we have to.