Sunset at the Great Salt Lake. #utah #GreatSaltLake #BikeTooter #gravelbike #gravelcycling #photo

2/3 of the surface size of the #GreatSaltLake in #Utah have disappeared.

By the way, the main drivers for this #development were population #growth and #climatechange. This famous lake has shrunk from 3,300 square miles in the 1980s to less than 1,000 square miles in the last years.

ABEREUS - A Better Resource Use
another not so funny #FunFactFriday #FunFact #FFF

🎧 #JukeBoxFridayNight | #SwedishHouseMafia "Greyhound" (2012). Film by #CarlRinsch.

The song was written to promote the #Absolut #Greyhound cocktail (grapefruit juice not included).

#music #steveangello #axwell #sebastianIngrosso #edm #house #dogs #techno #dogsofmastodon #robodogs #greatsaltlake #rabbit (implied) #racing #downthetrack

https://youtu.be/PDboaDrHGbA

"Der See hat bereits 73 % seines Wassers und 60 % seiner Oberfläche verloren, da Billionen Liter Wasser für die Versorgung von Farmen und Haushalten abgezweigt werden. Infolgedessen wird der See immer salziger und für einheimische Fliegen und Krebse unbewohnbar."

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/10/utah-great-salt-lake-collapse-imminent

#umweltkatastrophe #wassermangel #greatsaltlake #utah

(Part of me wishes we could limit alfalfa grown by statute rather than through economic incentives, but I realize that’s a political no-go in Utah.)
And that is why Utah's at risk citizens can't have nice things—
#GreatSaltLake

"The vast majority of the consumption — about 1.3 million acre-feet of water — is from agriculture. All commercial, industrial, institutional and residential uses combined are less than a third of that—" Terrified of the farm lobby ain't nobody got the cajones to do nothing— #GreatSaltLake

#GreatSaltLake is suffering from rise in evaporation rates, lower rainfall—
Farms use 80% of water return 2% to economy
State legislature is terrified, if they act a few thousand farms shutdown, if they don't Utah's citizens will get sick and die
So far Utah's legislature unable to summon courage to act

"Bonus badness: The dust also contains high levels of arsenic that can cause cancer." #GreatSaltLake is threatening millions along the Wasatch— the human toll is what the legislature has been debating since January— chances are slim to nil they will summon the courage to break the back of agricultures hold on this ongoing disaster

‘Last nail in the coffin’: Utah’s Great Salt Lake on verge of collapse

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/10/utah-great-salt-lake-collapse-imminent

#Utah #GreatSaltLake #drought #climatechange #climatecrisis

"A legacy of water overuse is the main threat to the largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere, and huge water diversions to irrigate vast operations to grow alfalfa and hay are no longer sustainable in Utah, Abbott said, nor are lush lawns in cities and suburbs"
#GreatSaltLake #Utah #Water #Climate

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/10/utah-great-salt-lake-collapse-imminent

RT @KonstantinosSun@twitter.com

As a result of this new phenomenon of pervasive megadroughts, an outgrowth of #climatechange, Utah’s #GreatSaltLake is on track to disappear within five years. Since 2020, the lake has been losing more than 40 billion gallons of water every year.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KonstantinosSun/status/1612204463246217218

A view of the Wasatch range from Antelope Island right before the snow today.

#AntelopeIsland #Photography #GreatSaltLake

Algae (?) patterns in the shallows along the #GreatSaltLake shoreline. #photography #AntelopeIsland #FremontIsland #utah

Antelope Island harbor on the Great Salt Lake. This used to be full of water and boats, as harbors usually are. Now the water is so far back you can barely see it in the far corner of this photo. This year the lake hit another record low level. #GreatSaltLake #utah #drought #waterconservation

Few more photos from our Great Salt Lake Bicycle Adventure. I will amend the previous Pro Tip:

Do not go after weeks of rain UNLESS you want to see a series of amazing reflections in the shallow pools and mudflats created by such rain showers. All the way across - 7 miles worth.

FYI the reflecting pools you see here are all less than an inch or so deep - many less than 1/2 or 1/4 inch. It's a thin, thin sheet of water on a very, very flat lake bed.

You won't see this when conditions are drier!

#gravel #gravelcycling #GreatSaltLake #utah #photography #bicycling #FremontIsland #AntelopeIsland

Trip to Fremont Island across the former Great Salt Lake lake bed. Pro tip: Do not go right after a major series of rainstorms when the lake bed has been turned to muddy goo. #bicycling #gravelcycling #GreatSaltLake #utah #FremontIsland #AntelopeIsland

Little gravel/mud action at Farmington Bay yesterday. #gravel #gravelcycling #utah #GreatSaltLake #daviscounty #wildliferefuge #recumbent

Farmington Bay at sunset, looking towards Antelope Island. #photography #utah #sunsetphoto #GreatSaltLake

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2022-10-great-salt-lake-path-hyper-salinity.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2022-10-great-salt-lake-path-hyper-salinity.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com@twitter.com: https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/1577406720250241026#m

#GreatSaltLake on path to hyper-salinity, mirroring Iranian lake, new research shows https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/19/3005 https://phys.org/news/2022-10-great-salt-lake-path-hyper-salinity.html

This is really not good #GreatSaltLake #drought
https://newstarget.com/2021-07-09-great-salt-lake-drying-up-amid-extreme-drought.html