Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson took lawmakers and state officials on a boat tour of the Great Salt Lake, calling attention to the urgency of its decline.
"It’s hard to appreciate how low it is when you haven’t seen it," she said in an interview afterward with FOX 13 News.
"I think one of the things that most impressed me today is just how impactful the Great Salt Lake is to everything we do in Utah," Lt. Governor Henderson said."To our water, to our air quality, to our quality of life. It’s something we haven’t talked enough about." "We believe the lake has peaked right now at about 4191.0," she told FOX 13 News."We think it will go down another two feet."
The Utah State Legislature this year advanced a number of bills to try to protect the Great Salt Lake. Future water development plans must take into consideration the impact to the lake, more emphasis is on water conservation in development and agricultural use. House Speaker Brad Wilson personally ran a bill to spend $40 million to try to get more water into the lake and lawmakers took an aerial tour during the session to see the lake's decline.
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