Why Trump wants to spend $1 billion on Great Salt Lake

Image: On June 9, 2025, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this dramatic true-color image of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Image credit: NASA via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Article by Saige Miller. NPR – April 24, 2026.

At its peak, Great Salt Lake, located right outside the state’s capital of Salt Lake City, was bigger than the state of Delaware, covering roughly 2,300 square miles, with a thriving ecosystem and the main reason Utah claimed to have “the greatest snow on Earth.” Now, due to a severe water shortage caused by excessive water consumption and lackluster winters, the lake is a shadow of what it once was. […]

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