Great Salt Lake becoming the Great Toxic Dustbowl

Gotta add in that would mean pumping water more than 500 miles uphill about 5000 feet through two other states (California and Nevada). Also hard to imagine Utah being dependent on California for its very survival.

Well, hey: doesn’t hurt to try.

I don’t need to thank either party. Water, whether you get it from a public system, a well or springs (as I do), is all recycled piss.

Everyone already knew that. You just wanted to hear yourself sound witty with the public piss water is all. :wink:

And you were ridiculing the concept of water recycling, when in reality, there is absolutely ZERO things wrong with it.

Ok, how so? Pumping salt water into a salt bed is stupid? You are aware there are thousands of miles of pipelines that traverse the country carrying oil,gas and water correct?

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Thing about praying for rain: if you aren’t packing an umbrella do you really display faith the prayer will be answered?

Also, a lake that has been drying up for many centuries is drying up?

That’s like saying drought is unusual in Texas.

It is happening in several places on the globe. (Aral sea)

When you
a.) pump water out of an underground aquifer that sustains a lake
then
b) spray it on agricultural land where a large portion of it evaporates and/or gets absorbed into plants

Then
c.) There is not as much water to sustain the lake as there was before.

Aral Sea
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The Aral was not drying up till some socialists diverted the river system that fed it and kept it full.

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What does this have to do with the fact that Utah is in desperate need for water from the lake for its water needs and is now considering extraordinary measures to save it from going dry?

Well, it has as much to do with it as your little map does.

My maps show the lake rapidly emptying over the past 35 years. Which is why Utah is desperately looking for solutions for their water woes. Why is this complicated?

Then go drink piss and feel witty about it. lol

No, building a pipeline from California directly to the Great Salt Lake is stupid.

You do realize that they do not actually take much if any drinking water from the lake itself, right? They do take it from some of the streams coming in as well as nearby reservoirs and many wells from ground water.

I remember reading about this a few weeks ago. That was a truly massive lake at one point.