Utah must also manage the Great Salt Lake itself and some of its tributary rivers for the good of all Utahns. A lawsuit is currently pending that attempts to preserve the lake using this principle ...

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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A water grab is taking shape in Utah, where thirsty urban development north of Salt ... tributary of the Colorado River, providing about 40% of all the water that flows into ...

Much of the water that should be going to the Great Salt Lake is used up before it even crosses the Utah border. Water rights to the Bear River, the largest tributary of the lake, are shared with ...

Utah is the fastest growing state ... proposal to further dam and divert the Bear River — the tributary that provides over half of the Great Salt Lake’s freshwater and is already riddled ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah researchers are working to restore Green River tributaries with a host of strategies including reintroducing beavers and removing invasive plants. There have been ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake ... flow of the Bear River as it dumps into the Great Salt Lake. Ben Stireman, deputy director of the Utah Division of Forestry ...

This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative ... executive director of the environmental advocacy group Utah Rivers Council, said the state “can’t rely on Mother ...

This “lake effect” is responsible for Utah’s other famous product ... six planned for the watershed of Bear River, Great Salt Lake’s biggest tributary. The project would divert 220,000 ...

Ferry's land is on the Bear River, which is the largest tributary to the Great Salt ... examines crops that are fed water from the Great Salt Lake. The Utah state legislature also passed a $ ...

Zach Frankel, director of the Utah Rivers Council, joined a lawsuit against the state this fall, accusing Utah of failing to protect the Great Salt Lake. (Peter O'Dowd/Here & Now) On a late ...

the Utah Rivers Council and Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, among others. The risks of a diminished Great Salt Lake aren’t merely beached sailboats and wider shores, the lawsuit says.