Great Salt Lake dries up, Utah faces an environmental challenge

The Manila Times

Great Salt Lake dries up, Utah faces an environmental challenge  The Great Salt Lake, one of the world's largest lakes, has lost two-thirds of its surface in forty years, due to a water-hungry agricultural sector, mining industry, and global warming, which is reducing the flow of the rivers that feed it. Faced with this environmental challenge, this conservative Mormon state has spent a billion dollars to prevent the area from drying up completely, without giving in to the "religion of climate change", explains one resident.  AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital  Sign up to our newsletters: https://tmt.ph/newsletters   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #themanilatimes #worldnews #lake #globalwarming

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00:40Running to one of the largest open pit mines in the world. It's a mile and a half wide and a mile deep

00:46You

00:57So, yep

00:57You guys are gonna just kind of put your hands in there and you'll kind of see it's a little bit feels a little bit

01:03different than your normal water

01:06Okay, some people say it feels slimy

01:09Almost it's scary that it's getting so small and you see like a big picture from an aerial view and that's when it really hits

01:16How small it is?

01:18I know it's a concern and it's it's worrisome that we're losing it because we're losing all that ecology

01:24And then there's a lot of talk about the toxic dust that's gonna you know blow up

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02:03Grace I like actually just just two years ago was out another out see those orange buoys a half mile out

02:09That's where the shore was

02:15Like there wouldn't be that life

02:16So the bugs need a place that they can come and live and breed and reproduce and when we looked at the decline

02:23What I said was there was a potential for the equivalent of an environmental nuclear bomb if we don't take some pretty dramatic action

02:30Things are changing whether it's naturally caused whether we're having an impact on it, you know, that's up for debate

02:37The reality is we have warmed up and that does have an impact on natural systems like Great Salt Lake

02:43I support Donald Trump

02:45I think that his policies are good policies for the people of America and the people of Utah

02:50But I think for us in Utah we look at what is going to be best for us here

02:55And how do we address these situations and these concerns?

02:58It's it's getting people to think about the lake more

03:03But

03:05Connecting that with climate change is a pretty hard task

03:09Utah's pretty conservative a Donald Trump presidency would be disastrous for environment in general and

03:18generally for Great Salt Lake

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