I just find it crazy that people don't understand why. They live in a desert. And they're trying to convince people that this is due to people. The Earth itself is alive.
I'm a truck driver, I've been to probably almost every state now. Yeah, the east has alot more water than the west. Wisconsin is also a really cool state BTW 👍
This is a problem you could see coming. I took a vacation to the western US with my family in 1990. We were travelling through southern California. I could see dry landscape and then green grass immediately afterwards. There were water sprinklers going on the green grass. There was no way that water was there naturally to use like that. This was clearly a recipe for disaster.
Yeah they’ve known this forever now. But because this country is incapable of doing anything in the long term, the states now have several weeks to come up with a solution.
Well California made some improvements on making sea water to fresh water putting prices higher for example in San Diego, even becoming the best state to conserve water in 2015. Still overall we couldn't uptick our conservation, and higher population, climate changing, and the lack of more conservation in our water. As we can see the colorado river is so low that nobody thought it get that low. Yet political division over water use and management has slowed progress over how to respond, since no state wants to lower the water use, it will take time until there is a agreement to conserve water use and perhaps when that time comes the river would be a few feet now making electricity blackouts.
California is t the only one. I live in Missouri where they want lush green grass in every yard. We also have a ton of golf courses!! Our HOAs fine some of us for not having green grass and our cities publish “conserve water” advisories. Why is green grass so sought after when everyone is earth conscious? The standard needs to change. I’d bet if everyone was put on a limited amount of water consumption for the year people would choose wisely instead of using up precious resources just because they can.
As someone who lives right next to the salt lake our family has decided to move if it does dry up which is really sad because Utah has been my home my whole life…
I live pretty close by the Great Salt Lake and it's crazy how much it's changed in the 6 years I've lived here. We need to have our lawns with rocks so we can save water. I would get rocks but unfortunately our HOA is very strict with rules and doesn't allow it. This is a huge problem and we're not doing anything about it
Need to do what AZ does, fake lawns. HOA wants to trip out like they do then they need to be shut down, environmental issues come first. I have never met or heard of HOA worth anything other then a headache.
The federal government needs to make a law that promote conservation of water as top priority and the wants and needs of a HOA would be null and void when contested in court.
You should call the district attorney for salt lake county and tell them your hoa is tyrannical. I live in south Utah county and its a little drier down here but I have a lovely green lawn. My brother, as a man you deserve to have a lawn to mow and enjoy. Dont stand for your tyrannical home owners association
I’m sorry I’ve always found it absolutely pathetic certain states will ask/ force residents to maintain lawns. Absolutely not. As future said- I thought it was a drought???
I live in Tooele County and over 4 years it’s shrinking so fast, I still believe the mine has a lot to do with this. I would put my life on it, that’s how sure I am. Sulfuric acid by the 100000 gallons being pumped into the mountain. You can’t drink the tap water
That’s too bad. The whole South West is drying up. I hope they figure something out. California has imposed laws to help regulate water usage, maybe that’s what SLC needs.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!...... You cited California as some sort of "state role-model"........ California is THE PROBLEM!!!!!
the salt lake was much larger thousands of years ago, before man showed up. Thats why there is a salt flat. its the peoples fault for building next to a dying area. Foresight people!
Joel Ferry is a good man. I've meet him and he is a great example of a conservationists farmer/rancher. Utah needs to listen to him if they have a chance at all!
@@joejacko1587 the GSL is dying because of over use of the Bear River due largely in part to Utahs population explosion. The water doesn't even have a chance to get to the GSL!
There used to be Lop Nur, a salt water lake over 3600 sq mi on the ancient China landscape. The Loulan kingdom reside with it was one of the most powerful and rich civilization among the Silk Road. With the devastating change on Tarim River, Lop Nur dried and Loulan city was abandoned 422 AD, leaving its history and glory all in the deep sands.
@@AdamBorseti yes and no. I've only been here for 7 years and, although it's gotten worse in that time, it was always hazing and gritty. But, my Dad lived here in the 80s and 90s and he said it wasn't like this at all.
Been a Utah resident most of my life and it’s sad to see how low it continues to get. For the last twenty years they have warned of a drought and people continue to use water like there is no shortage. I use to work for a major manufacturing corporation and we would use 60% of the county’s water usage, with a residential count of almost 400,000 people. It’s a lot of water. Why is a company like this even in Utah the second driest state? We only have so much water and Utah continues to push for more growth. Government officials should of done more to prevent this twenty years ago, instead they wanted to line their pockets. Why would you put the guy that uses the most water in charge of the water? He’s going to take all that he needs and what’s left he’ll say “make it work”.
Grass lawns will be a thing of the past in Salt Lake City, if you want to avoid arsenic dust storms! Learn how to make desert yards! Arizona, Nevada, & Southern California people will teach you how!!!😀They have the same drought issues.
YES I COMPLETELY AGREE! Lose the water loving mountain plants that fry every summer, and replace them with beautiful Agaves, Yuccas and Drought tolerant shrubs! I’ve already done it, and my garden looks 100 times better than anyone else’s in my neighborhood. It’s always green, even through the winter and it uses no water whatsoever basically!
@@515ventures3 I mean biologically it makes sense to feel a sense of emptiness if you do not reproduce as there is a innate drive to spread your genes.
That’s what every desert used to be. A vast ocean, to a diminished ocean, to a salty lake, to a desert. You can debate if climate change has accelerated the drying but nonetheless, it’s a natural process.
@Mike Studmuffin it would freeze before reaching space. I’m some rare cases, water does escape to space but it requires intense UV rays to break down the H20 molecule. When this happens the oxygen stays on earth while the hydrogen escapes to space.
I believe the Midwest is going to have an insane amount of inbound moves with the water desolation occuring in the west. It's only going to get worse, seeing there's hardly any drought prevention measures in place.
You get that a drought is below average precipitation for the region, right? 20" of rainfall in Seattle would be a drought but it would be a wet year for Salt Lake City. It's a relative measurement. So yeah, a drought in a dessert means even less water than typical.
@@KennyMcCormick5467 everyone does and doesn't directly or indirectly. What you want this man to do become president of the EPA before he is allowed to give an opinion?
You need to emphasize the dust storms and how bad they'll be. People don't care about the environment or their health but they do care about inconvenience.
Growing alfalfa in the desert with inefficient flood irrigation is just as dumb as lawns. Being ag uses 80% (common to all western states) of the water I would say they have a long way to go and have been the driver in groundwater and surface water depletion. At the end of the day they will protect water rights as opposed to planting drought tolerant varieties and changing irrigation practices, meanwhile deflecting the conversation to lawns. Farmers on the high plains. In Texas have depleted the southern Oglala aquifer in less than 100 years (took millions of years to fill) and continue to resist mandates to conserve.
Don’t you also love the fact the alfalfa gets sent to China for dairy cows to eat. So much more important then the so called “environment” according to Utah’s legislators. Just pray for more rain!
its slc there is a lot of run off of water from the mountains back in the 90's 30 years ago they built billion-dollar pumps because the great Salt Lake was overflowing it gos up and down always has
Reminds me of the Laguna Salada in the Baja California Peninsula, was once a beautiful paradise now a desert used for making apocalyptic movies. Salton Sea not too far from there is facing the same issues.
But the current Salton sea was a manmade due to accidental release of irrigation waters that was allowed to go for 2 years back around 1905 if i remember my history correctly
There is still A LOT of waste on these farms with water, and A LOT of subsidized water for them. Start paying the cost and you value the tap differently.
I’m almost 40. I’ve lived in Utah my entire life. Drought has scared me since I was little. We will never fix it because instead of working on getting people to stop wasting water, the Governor would rather ask all the Mormons to pray for more water. Actually ‘for the heavens to open up’ to be exact. 🙄
I AGREE!!! AND I'M MORMON. Literally we need to get things done like pipelines and actual water conservation techniques. Sucky way we're dealing with this.
Here in Nevada in las vegas the population has grown but we use less water than ever before. Probably the only place to start conserving early while other arid places seem to use even more water. None of them cared till there is literally almost nothing left.
Quite a few years back i watched a doc called Blue Gold. (about water of course) Pretty accurate in its predictions but didnt think it would happen so fast. Living in Cali I try my best to save water. But with alot of new developing dont see how this is gonna be fixed. Maybe some really bad ass desalination tech will be implemented.
Maybe farming in the desert isn't a good idea? Try growing something different and we shouldn't allow such a small number of people to benefit so much from what's needed for everyone.
Yea I live near salt lake, I live in vernal and this drout is BAD. I may be 3 hours away from SLC but I’ve been there hundreds of times and vernal is being affected in a negative way. This is sad and it really sucks
I wish there was a way we can take deliver all the snow from East Coast to the West Coast to prevent droughts, too bad it will melt… unless there is a way to freeze it in trucks ????
The large apartment & housing on the west side construction boom happening here boggles my mind. Unfortunately, yrs ago, we noticed many people who run for office "happen" to be those in the real estate business, so I think they don't give a damn abt just how idiotic a population boom here would be, so long as it makes them money. So many more people ate being encouraged to live here merely by building these numerous, huge apt complexes, & every single person who moves in means they'll need water, which is already a strained resource. Too much & too little water both kill (floods & droughts) but it's not just humans who need water, plants & animals do, too. Honestly, as the 2nd driest state in the nation, one day they'll probably have to declare a population cap here, if they don't want to threaten the lives living here already. For now, money is what speaks, & residents be damned if we aren't making certain circles wealthier. As for the contaminants issue, the GSL is the place where water from all over drains; Utah Lake, south of GSL, also drains into GSL via the Jordan River; it's urbanized all around those waters, & universally accepted you can fish the river for fun, but don't even think abt eating those fish!! Too many pollutants!
Now here's a simple yet effective solution. But no, let's just drain Utah Lake entirely. What a novel and definitely not destructive to multiple environments.
salton sea in California is in the same boat. If you let it dry out, it becomes a environmental hazard. It extremely polluted with agricultural runoff. That would become airborne it allowed to dry up.
Between the U.S economy plunging like Titanic, and it’s land becoming dry and barren I feel it’s inevitable we’re going to repeat what our families had to survive in the Great Depression….
Unfortunately, agriculture is the only real way to solve this issue. Agriculture is responsible for over 80% of Utahs water usage, with only around 15% being used for public use. So even though water definitely could be save in these scenarios it is nowhere near enough. This solution is not simple at all. Utah has completely unsustainable agricultural practices and that really is the only area for real noticeable change.
It could have a dramatic effect on the Mormon faith if the lake dries up and the city dies a slow death with most people abandoning it, leaving it as a ghost town. Then again, with two or three years of above average snowfall and better than usual spring and summer rain, the lake might get back to near its usual levels. I hope that disaster is abated because Utah is a real gem 💎 of a state, with amazing variation in its landscape; from lush mountain meadows, to high alpine valleys and pastures, to deep twisting multi-coloured canyons, to vast snowfields of 500 to possibly over 700 inches per yearly average in remote hard to measure places and let’s not forget the forest’s surrounded by desert, making them seem like highland islands! 🌴 Utah - a world in one state. Love from the UK.
This is a localized region. When talking about global sea level rise, that's talking about a global average. Same thing when talking about global warming. The planet is warming up on average, when looking at the global average temperature. That doesn't mean some places can't be unusually cold sometimes
When you build cities in the desert, or below sea level in a hurricane zone, water can often become a problem. I'm not even an engineer or city planner.
I don’t know how I’m earth he can handle kayaking on that lake. I visited the salt lake once and I couldn’t even handle standing at the shore the smell of sulfur is so putrid I’ve just gotta know how he can do that.
Sadly the majority of people living in Utah will vote republican. The party that would rather put business before environment. Those environmental regulations won't pass.
Driest state in the country is Nevada lake mead is drying up even quicker yet they don’t make videos about it I’m afraid in some time I’ll have to move out
I guess I visited it at just the right time, if you EVER have the opportunity to swim in the lakez I would recommend you take it! You just float with no effort and it's super cool!
It's so sad to have this amazing city of ours become a near wasteland due to our lack of water conservation throughout the generations...
Has zero to do with conservation, it's deliberate sabotage in a war.
Change is coming
@@Former_Pastor What do you mean AMEN GOD BLESS CHRIST 47 CASON OLD MAN RHONDA JARED AND ALL OF HIS FAMILY
@@Unknown-oj8ul did you have a stroke?
@@JohnDoe-lx3dt No AMEN GOD BLESS CHRIST 47 CASON OLD MAN RHONDA JARED AND ALL OF HIS FAMILY
Lakes have been nuts lately! While the southwest is losing a ton of water, here in Wisconsin, lakes and rivers have gone up as much as several feet.
Over here in Michigan we had a drought somewhat but it’s kinda now going the other direction
I live in Chicago we share the same lake. I wonder if it differs by you guys
I just find it crazy that people don't understand why. They live in a desert. And they're trying to convince people that this is due to people. The Earth itself is alive.
Effix lies Lake Winnebago reports lower water levels
I'm a truck driver, I've been to probably almost every state now. Yeah, the east has alot more water than the west. Wisconsin is also a really cool state BTW 👍
This is a problem you could see coming. I took a vacation to the western US with my family in 1990. We were travelling through southern California. I could see dry landscape and then green grass immediately afterwards. There were water sprinklers going on the green grass. There was no way that water was there naturally to use like that. This was clearly a recipe for disaster.
Yeah they’ve known this forever now. But because this country is incapable of doing anything in the long term, the states now have several weeks to come up with a solution.
Well California made some improvements on making sea water to fresh water putting prices higher for example in San Diego, even becoming the best state to conserve water in 2015. Still overall we couldn't uptick our conservation, and higher population, climate changing, and the lack of more conservation in our water. As we can see the colorado river is so low that nobody thought it get that low. Yet political division over water use and management has slowed progress over how to respond, since no state wants to lower the water use, it will take time until there is a agreement to conserve water use and perhaps when that time comes the river would be a few feet now making electricity blackouts.
California is t the only one.
I live in Missouri where they want lush green grass in every yard. We also have a ton of golf courses!!
Our HOAs fine some of us for not having green grass and our cities publish “conserve water” advisories.
Why is green grass so sought after when everyone is earth conscious? The standard needs to change.
I’d bet if everyone was put on a limited amount of water consumption for the year people would choose wisely instead of using up precious resources just because they can.
The funny thing is grass isn’t even the problem, 80% of the water used in California is on Agriculture
@@Joyaplayscod suburbs of SPRINGFWD.
As someone who currently lives in utah I've been kinda concerned for a few years for the same reasons
I was not expecting this many likes holy cow
Same.
@Straight Serum , they just said they're concerned. Besides, one person can't do anything
@Straight Serum bruh what have u done bro?
@Straight Serum pov:ur a Twitter user
@Straight Serum he pee there
As someone who lives right next to the salt lake our family has decided to move if it does dry up which is really sad because Utah has been my home my whole life…
It's already time to go. No one can survive without a natural water resource.
Leave now, when the property is still worth something
@@DJRenee it’s salt water 😂😂😂
That sucks. Good luck wherever you end up moving to if you do
good luck selling with no water near by
I live pretty close by the Great Salt Lake and it's crazy how much it's changed in the 6 years I've lived here. We need to have our lawns with rocks so we can save water. I would get rocks but unfortunately our HOA is very strict with rules and doesn't allow it. This is a huge problem and we're not doing anything about it
Need to do what AZ does, fake lawns. HOA wants to trip out like they do then they need to be shut down, environmental issues come first. I have never met or heard of HOA worth anything other then a headache.
The federal government needs to make a law that promote conservation of water as top priority and the wants and needs of a HOA would be null and void when contested in court.
@g7239DJ1 is everything okay?
Report the HOA to the city government
You should call the district attorney for salt lake county and tell them your hoa is tyrannical. I live in south Utah county and its a little drier down here but I have a lovely green lawn. My brother, as a man you deserve to have a lawn to mow and enjoy. Dont stand for your tyrannical home owners association
I’m sorry I’ve always found it absolutely pathetic certain states will ask/ force residents to maintain lawns. Absolutely not. As future said- I thought it was a drought???
the lawns have nothing to do with this its SLC not ST George
The states aren't forcing them to have lawns it is the HOAs
@g7239DJ1 seek help
@@IGORDYES help never came
@@test_account939 And won’t ever
I live in Tooele County and over 4 years it’s shrinking so fast, I still believe the mine has a lot to do with this. I would put my life on it, that’s how sure I am. Sulfuric acid by the 100000 gallons being pumped into the mountain. You can’t drink the tap water
Which mine? There were several.
You mean kennacott?
what? I’ve drunk my tap water before 😳
@@trinny_y but it’s not magna tooele water trust us if you were from slc you’d know
@@Ph.40Lowks I am from Salt Lake moved out here 5 years ago. Growing up in SL everyone knows about Magna water 🥴
That’s too bad. The whole South West is drying up. I hope they figure something out. California has imposed laws to help regulate water usage, maybe that’s what SLC needs.
Not every person is going to follow that rule
California's laws directly contribute to droughts. Facts, and it seriously is a fact.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!...... You cited California as some sort of "state role-model"........ California is THE PROBLEM!!!!!
Just goes to show why humans avoide those types of environments. Just look at Australia, everyone will end up migrating east.
the salt lake was much larger thousands of years ago, before man showed up. Thats why there is a salt flat. its the peoples fault for building next to a dying area. Foresight people!
The Salt Lake can’t dry up now because without Salt Lake it isn’t Salt Lake City it would just be City.
🤭🤣🤣
Losing water isn’t funny. We could literally all die.
@@iHasaComputer it's not that insanely bad there's still multiple other sources of water. It's more so a sign of things getting worst
@@iHasaComputer can't drink the salt lake
@@iHasaComputer Meh, unlikely, god forbid it dries up, we'll all move to Florida and become Florida Man and Florida Woman
Joel Ferry is a good man. I've meet him and he is a great example of a conservationists farmer/rancher. Utah needs to listen to him if they have a chance at all!
Yes !! 💙
30 years ago, they built billion-dollar pumps because it was overflowing
but that lake has been dying for the last 10 thousand years can't save it
@@joejacko1587 the GSL is dying because of over use of the Bear River due largely in part to Utahs population explosion. The water doesn't even have a chance to get to the GSL!
@@jackburton307 this time of year its July and a drought it's the spring runoff that fill its not July
There used to be Lop Nur, a salt water lake over 3600 sq mi on the ancient China landscape. The Loulan kingdom reside with it was one of the most powerful and rich civilization among the Silk Road. With the devastating change on Tarim River, Lop Nur dried and Loulan city was abandoned 422 AD, leaving its history and glory all in the deep sands.
*Man, crazy how fast Time just flys by.*
I live in South Salt Lake. The air feels gritty with all the sand, dirt, and dust in the air. The view of the mountains look hazy most of the time.
I live in North Ogden and I live in the foothills of the mountains and I can hardly even see them at times. Ben Lomond peak is hazy af to see
Was it always this way?
@@AdamBorseti yes and no. I've only been here for 7 years and, although it's gotten worse in that time, it was always hazing and gritty. But, my Dad lived here in the 80s and 90s and he said it wasn't like this at all.
@@AdamBorseti no but as we get more people we get more air pollution.
that dust haze in los angeles they call that smog
Been a Utah resident most of my life and it’s sad to see how low it continues to get. For the last twenty years they have warned of a drought and people continue to use water like there is no shortage.
I use to work for a major manufacturing corporation and we would use 60% of the county’s water usage, with a residential count of almost 400,000 people. It’s a lot of water. Why is a company like this even in Utah the second driest state?
We only have so much water and Utah continues to push for more growth. Government officials should of done more to prevent this twenty years ago, instead they wanted to line their pockets. Why would you put the guy that uses the most water in charge of the water? He’s going to take all that he needs and what’s left he’ll say “make it work”.
As a Utahn, it’s very meta to see our usually ignored state on this channel.
@@KennyMcCormick5467 Arkansas called
not as bad as delaware
@@Kyxul vermont left a voicemail alrdy..
@@KennyMcCormick5467 no California
Nope! Illinois
As someone whose never been to America, the salt lake has always been one of the places I've always wanted to see once in my life
You should rethink this… the water is so dirty with salt and pollution; and the air smells like battery acid
Trust me, seeing it from 40000 ft. is the BEST WAY to visit Utah!
Unless you really, REALLY like 14yr olds. . .
You better hurry up!
You should see the Great Lakes!
Flying in you see a ton of colors like yellows and blues and purples and reds.
Grass lawns will be a thing of the past in Salt Lake City, if you want to avoid arsenic dust storms! Learn how to make desert yards! Arizona, Nevada, & Southern California people will teach you how!!!😀They have the same drought issues.
YES I COMPLETELY AGREE! Lose the water loving mountain plants that fry every summer, and replace them with beautiful Agaves, Yuccas and Drought tolerant shrubs! I’ve already done it, and my garden looks 100 times better than anyone else’s in my neighborhood. It’s always green, even through the winter and it uses no water whatsoever basically!
Or better yet, stop making babies!!!
@@01DOT0 exactly! i don't know why humans feel so empty without reproducing. There is know meaning in life without getting pregnant. its depressing.
@@515ventures3 Very well said! 🙌
@@515ventures3 I mean biologically it makes sense to feel a sense of emptiness if you do not reproduce as there is a innate drive to spread your genes.
i was litterally just there and was astonished by how shallow it was, i was there about 5 years ago and could not believe the difference in 5 years.
That’s what every desert used to be. A vast ocean, to a diminished ocean, to a salty lake, to a desert.
You can debate if climate change has accelerated the drying but nonetheless, it’s a natural process.
The extinction of the dinosaurs was a natural process. Just cuz it's natural doesn't mean it's good or healthy for humanity.
Where there major cities filled with people with harmful chemicals.. near them. No therefore it’s problem
Well said
i believe in climate change, but you said what others couldn't/wouldn't 🤷🏾♀️
@Mike Studmuffin it would freeze before reaching space. I’m some rare cases, water does escape to space but it requires intense UV rays to break down the H20 molecule. When this happens the oxygen stays on earth while the hydrogen escapes to space.
2022: Salt Lake City
2032: City
Salt City* the salt isn’t going anywhere
Seeing the planet slowly dying is pretty depressing
Inside edition always doing the best investigative stories and best interviews
Yess! They really do.
If the lake bed was high in arsenic, it could also be a different reason aside from naturally occurring; it could be from illegal dumping decades ago.
I believe the Midwest is going to have an insane amount of inbound moves with the water desolation occuring in the west. It's only going to get worse, seeing there's hardly any drought prevention measures in place.
gavy nitwit throws billions in the trash and is too stupid to build desalination plants ran on solar
midwest or southwest?
@@joejacko1587 he just said Midwest?
@Chet Muggins 😂
A drought in the desert? Unbelievable 😂😂
Yeah. Let's blame climate change
A 20-year mega-drought like we have never seen before? Unbelievable.
@@jpablo700 no no you're right let's keep continuing the water wastage practices and dig ourselves even deeper into the grave
You get that a drought is below average precipitation for the region, right? 20" of rainfall in Seattle would be a drought but it would be a wet year for Salt Lake City. It's a relative measurement. So yeah, a drought in a dessert means even less water than typical.
@@absbabs6153 Yeah that salt water is really good for crops and drinking.
it's silly not to protect our environment
I agree
Mormons think Jesus is coming tomorrow so they don’t really care about the environment
@@KennyMcCormick5467 buying an EV lol. And a little bitty solar panel for his laptop.
@@KennyMcCormick5467 everyone does and doesn't directly or indirectly. What you want this man to do become president of the EPA before he is allowed to give an opinion?
@@elusivelectron the great salt lake wasn't created by damning
You need to emphasize the dust storms and how bad they'll be. People don't care about the environment or their health but they do care about inconvenience.
Holy cow I remember stopping in this city on our way back from Lake Tahoe when I was a kid and it definitely didn’t look like that, this is so sad
When you mismanage a finite resource like fresh water, this kind of man-made catastrophy is inevitable.
Who knew building cities in a desert is a bad idea.
Went there last year and yes I can tell that the lake was starting to be pretty sad... lot of sand where water used to be
Growing alfalfa in the desert with inefficient flood irrigation is just as dumb as lawns.
Being ag uses 80% (common to all western states) of the water I would say they have a long way to go and have been the driver in groundwater and surface water depletion.
At the end of the day they will protect water rights as opposed to planting drought tolerant varieties and changing irrigation practices, meanwhile deflecting the conversation to lawns.
Farmers on the high plains. In Texas have depleted the southern Oglala aquifer in less than 100 years (took millions of years to fill) and continue to resist mandates to conserve.
Yeah and this guy (farmer) is apparently trying to get a seat in the state lol
Don’t you also love the fact the alfalfa gets sent to China for dairy cows to eat. So much more important then the so called “environment” according to Utah’s legislators. Just pray for more rain!
its slc there is a lot of run off of water from the mountains back in the 90's 30 years ago they built billion-dollar pumps because the great Salt Lake was overflowing it gos up and down always has
@@rachelcondie8228 if you knew anything about the chinese you'd realize how uninformed your statement is about alfalfa and dairy cows 😆
@@joejacko1587 goes up and down hey? Like the Salton Sea, right?
Reminds me of the Laguna Salada in the Baja California Peninsula, was once a beautiful paradise now a desert used for making apocalyptic movies. Salton Sea not too far from there is facing the same issues.
But the current Salton sea was a manmade due to accidental release of irrigation waters that was allowed to go for 2 years back around 1905 if i remember my history correctly
If am not wrong the laguna salada was only filled up from the 1983 Colorado rivier flood
I hope it doesn't go worse
its already releasing toxic dust into our air. its horrible
There is still A LOT of waste on these farms with water, and A LOT of subsidized water for them. Start paying the cost and you value the tap differently.
Government needs to invest in desalination research. Then perfect desalination and use it to fix these issues.
@@vyros.3234 California just voted a new one down because of a half inch rare fish.
@@KB-ke3fi Californians
Farmers pay the cost then so do we, we're already seeing this currently.
Swimming pools and lawn sprinklers waste much more than that.
I’m almost 40. I’ve lived in Utah my entire life. Drought has scared me since I was little. We will never fix it because instead of working on getting people to stop wasting water, the Governor would rather ask all the Mormons to pray for more water. Actually ‘for the heavens to open up’ to be exact. 🙄
if you lived here for 50 years you would remind the flooding in the 80's
@@DG-nk7joI had a friend named David Gonzalez. He died a few years ago, intestinal cancer. I miss him alot. 😔.
I AGREE!!! AND I'M MORMON. Literally we need to get things done like pipelines and actual water conservation techniques. Sucky way we're dealing with this.
Here in Nevada in las vegas the population has grown but we use less water than ever before. Probably the only place to start conserving early while other arid places seem to use even more water. None of them cared till there is literally almost nothing left.
Everything is drying up in the west. That’s why so much of it is on fire now during fire season.
@@KennyMcCormick5467 bro what 💀
@@KennyMcCormick5467 if you're commenting "good" or "dont care" then what is the purpose of commenting at all? literally makes zero sense
like it goes through in cycles for millions of years...
It’s quite dry in the Midwest too.
i appreciate the farmers trying to be efficient
Quite a few years back i watched a doc called Blue Gold. (about water of course) Pretty accurate in its predictions but didnt think it would happen so fast. Living in Cali I try my best to save water. But with alot of new developing dont see how this is gonna be fixed.
Maybe some really bad ass desalination tech will be implemented.
Good idea...then we can drain the oceans too 👍
@@AStri-zg5xc well i guess itll help with the supposed rising sea levels due to climate change huh? Smart ass.
Maybe farming in the desert isn't a good idea? Try growing something different and we shouldn't allow such a small number of people to benefit so much from what's needed for everyone.
Damn it's almost like food is more important than golf courses and mandatory green lawns
@@emmanuelchavez7748 lol no it’s just alfalfa that feeds Chinese livestock
We literally have the Midwest and the easy for farmland. Like who thought “oh yeah I’ll settle here in the desert and farm.”
"omg rip to the lake and condolences to the lakes family 🙏"
Oh this is really eye-opening been hearing about this Salt Lake for years of my life and it's drying up now😲
This is terrifying.
How
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If they allowed collecting rain water legal more than 10 years ago maybe that would have slowed this down.
no, it would not have.
Lake Mead is the lowest it has ever been. It's almost at the level where water can no longer flow through the dam.
Ah yes, the capital of Utah: Salt City.
That's literally what it's coming to lmao
I like the farmers attitude, sounds like a good guy to have aboard!
You settled the desert when the desert wasn't meant to be settled...
Oh my God, it's as if putting millions of people in a desert was a bad idea?! 🧠
Yea I live near salt lake, I live in vernal and this drout is BAD. I may be 3 hours away from SLC but I’ve been there hundreds of times and vernal is being affected in a negative way. This is sad and it really sucks
I miss living in Utah. I hope it doesn't dry up
"We settled in a desert, we can make this work"
Hahaha.
I wish there was a way we can take deliver all the snow from East Coast to the West Coast to prevent droughts, too bad it will melt… unless there is a way to freeze it in trucks ????
Been trying to figure this out since I was like 4. Still can't work anything out.
@@ajconlin8525 that’s nice 😊
A tortoise once said "You control the water, you control everything"
I live in utah near salt lake so now im kinda scared for me and my future kids future
there is no future, Utah is too dry for population growth
This reminds of Dune, the people barely have drinking water but people water the plants.
The large apartment & housing on the west side construction boom happening here boggles my mind. Unfortunately, yrs ago, we noticed many people who run for office "happen" to be those in the real estate business, so I think they don't give a damn abt just how idiotic a population boom here would be, so long as it makes them money. So many more people ate being encouraged to live here merely by building these numerous, huge apt complexes, & every single person who moves in means they'll need water, which is already a strained resource. Too much & too little water both kill (floods & droughts) but it's not just humans who need water, plants & animals do, too. Honestly, as the 2nd driest state in the nation, one day they'll probably have to declare a population cap here, if they don't want to threaten the lives living here already. For now, money is what speaks, & residents be damned if we aren't making certain circles wealthier. As for the contaminants issue, the GSL is the place where water from all over drains; Utah Lake, south of GSL, also drains into GSL via the Jordan River; it's urbanized all around those waters, & universally accepted you can fish the river for fun, but don't even think abt eating those fish!! Too many pollutants!
They should turn the causeway into bridges so that water can freely flow in southern and northern parts of the lake again
Now here's a simple yet effective solution. But no, let's just drain Utah Lake entirely. What a novel and definitely not destructive to multiple environments.
YES, IVE BEEN THINKING OF THIS
salton sea in California is in the same boat. If you let it dry out, it becomes a environmental hazard. It extremely polluted with agricultural runoff. That would become airborne it allowed to dry up.
Golf courses need to have their water SEVERELY reduced, use 100% recycled water, or use Artificial grass
Golf courses should exist in the south west period. Waste of water and space!
We have wayy to many golf courses out here. Nobody even uses them.
I love stepping on dry lakes the crunch is so satisfying.
Between the U.S economy plunging like Titanic, and it’s land becoming dry and barren I feel it’s inevitable we’re going to repeat what our families had to survive in the Great Depression….
It's been shrinking for thousands of not millions of years. It used to to be called Lake Bonneville and was much larger.
Hasn't that lake been drying up since it stopped being a sea more than 10,000 years ago?
i went there almost a month ago… salt lake city is such a beautiful city. seeing how it’s drying up is so devastating..
Is salt flat important to our ecosystem?
Perhaps change name to "Salt dust city"?
Cool name ngl
Or Arsenic Dust Ghost Town
Birds rely on this for migration. Not really that funny
@@sam08g16 Thats a good one as well.
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Not only the Great Salt lake is drinking but also every year get overheating. I live in Utah and every two weeks get heavy pollutions.
I love how the news points at farmers instead if country clubs and golf courses with acres of land that isn't needed using water
Unfortunately, agriculture is the only real way to solve this issue. Agriculture is responsible for over 80% of Utahs water usage, with only around 15% being used for public use. So even though water definitely could be save in these scenarios it is nowhere near enough. This solution is not simple at all. Utah has completely unsustainable agricultural practices and that really is the only area for real noticeable change.
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The same thing is happening here in the Salton Sea🙋🏽♂️
It could have a dramatic effect on the Mormon faith if the lake dries up and the city dies a slow death with most people abandoning it, leaving it as a ghost town. Then again, with two or three years of above average snowfall and better than usual spring and summer rain, the lake might get back to near its usual levels.
I hope that disaster is abated because Utah is a real gem 💎 of a state, with amazing variation in its landscape; from lush mountain meadows, to high alpine valleys and pastures, to deep twisting multi-coloured canyons, to vast snowfields of 500 to possibly over 700 inches per yearly average in remote hard to measure places and let’s not forget the forest’s surrounded by desert, making them seem like highland islands! 🌴
Utah - a world in one state. Love from the UK.
We need to start looking into desalination in our ocean waters. There is plenty there.
can someone tell how the water is raising but the water here is disappearing or under places( I know it's a stupid question but wanna know)
This is a localized region. When talking about global sea level rise, that's talking about a global average.
Same thing when talking about global warming. The planet is warming up on average, when looking at the global average temperature. That doesn't mean some places can't be unusually cold sometimes
@@zrk03 thanks for the answer
I get that this change is crazy BUT the rock formations in Arizona were once underwater so…. Nature is ever changing
Human activity accelerate the process and would impact peoples livelihood
I can't believe I moved away from Salt Lake a year and half ago right before all this started happening
I've always been interested to know what it be like to live on Venus. Guess I'll learn soon enough
don't worry Bud, the ocean isn't going anywhere
Omg that showed my backyard and golf course at the sprinkler part
We just have to have hope that the rain will come.
😂 we got lots of rain & we get tons of snow the problem is the fact Utahns over water EVERYWHERE & EVERYTHING
Salt lake city is where High School Musical was filmed
When you look at the residents gardens, orchards in those gardens and splash pads at home, you won't say there is a drought.
Lake mead is drying up too. Maybe we don’t need golf courses in the desert?
When you build cities in the desert, or below sea level in a hurricane zone, water can often become a problem. I'm not even an engineer or city planner.
But Salt Lake City isn’t in a desert. It’s a arid climate sure. But not much different than Wyoming or South Dakota.
I would be more worried about the fact that Salt Lake City is built on a major fault line that is way over do for a big one
@@homiej8163 salt lake city is considered a desert
2:00 that giant mountain peak up there, is Ben Lomond! I have summited that mountain 25 times!
I don’t know how I’m earth he can handle kayaking on that lake. I visited the salt lake once and I couldn’t even handle standing at the shore the smell of sulfur is so putrid I’ve just gotta know how he can do that.
It has been drying up for the past 3 decades, it is just now getting noticed.
Like the Dead Sea or Salt Sea in the middle East. Thats drying up too
I love Salt Lake City! This saddens me :(
God help us🇺🇲all🙏🏼
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Can someone tell me what is happening
World ending 💯
Its ok the lake is not usable you cant use the water and the only animal that lives off the lake is brine shrimp
In this mega drought a good rain 🌧 dancer could make a killing🙌✅💯🇺🇸⚡️
I thought they prayed for the drought away. Did that not work or something??
The answer is not always yes.
I went to the lake around 2 weeks ago and it took like 20 to 30 minutes to just walk over to the lake.
Sadly the majority of people living in Utah will vote republican. The party that would rather put business before environment. Those environmental regulations won't pass.
maybe they don't want to be enviermental communist like California
@@cardboardboxification *environmental
Oh darn. That’s really sucks. 😐
Driest state in the country is Nevada lake mead is drying up even quicker yet they don’t make videos about it I’m afraid in some time I’ll have to move out
They have videos on it.
I guess I visited it at just the right time, if you EVER have the opportunity to swim in the lakez I would recommend you take it! You just float with no effort and it's super cool!
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It's not just Salt Lake that's drying up, where I live there is a lake called "Rye Patch" and it's also drying up :(
"We can make this work" says the guy with the "water rights"
We? No its on you. Quit being greedy