Letter: 'If we cannot ensure the lake’s preservation, even in years of excess, then we will, inevitably, one day, be fleeing a dust bowl wasteland.'
Between each island, water ranged from ankle to stomach deep. As I found myself marooned, looking for a way back to shore, I couldn’t help but imagine, and abhor the idea, that one day these islands may become lakebed mountain ranges., I had suggested that policy-makers would be slow in acting to save the lake from depletion. I quipped that Utahns should either throw buckets of water into the lake or seek better solutions.
This year, thankfully, water from our snowmelt has made a difference, and the lake seems to be recovering. At Saltair, it’s not so easy getting marooned. Those reef islands from a year ago are now barely locatable. However, our lake’s sustainability is not something we can simply let nature resolve. Surely another severe drought will come, and if we cannot ensure the lake’s preservation, even in years of excess, then we will, inevitably, one day, be fleeing a dust bowl wasteland.
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