The scientific community is very clear that the Great Salt Lake is in trouble. If it doesn’t receive more water from the rivers that feed it, it will keep shrinking and eventually will stop producing the brine shrimp that sustain an important industry as well as the millions of birds that feed off of them.
I’ve also been reading about the high levels of arsenic in the soil that is being exposed and the potential of the dying Great Salt Lake becoming a “toxic dust pan”.
On the other hand, we are using much of the water that used to go to the Salt Lake to grow hay that we export to China and other countries in Asia.
I have a question: Do we want a dead lake and a toxic dust pan or do we want to keep sending hay to China?
Sabine Weil, Holladay
