Which part of that quote isn’t true? You’re right GSL has been losing water on average, but it did accelerate in 2020-2022. The article mentioned the fact that

Which part of that quote isn’t true? You’re right GSL has been losing water on average, but it did accelerate in 2020-2022. The article mentioned the fact that the lake came up a little - slightly - this year, but that’s anomalous weather and not a trend. The trend is clear that there are only a few years left for the lake at current rates. The lake was at it’s lowest point ever 1 year ago, when it got so low they had to haul all of the boats out of the marina and it went dry. You can watch the lake shrink in the aerial animation here: https://wildlife.utah.gov/gslep/about/water-levels.html#:~:text=The%20lake%20has%20gone%20through,square%20miles%20of%20surface%20area https://wildlife.utah.gov/gslep/about/water-levels.html#:~:t...) If the concerns about arsenic are accurate - and I’ve heard Salt Lake is already starting to experience increased health issues from the lake dust - then I pretty strongly disagree that sales of alfalfa (a notoriously thirsty crop) are more important. > resources exist to be used False. Resources exist, and we humans take them at will and use them for our own profits at the expense of other humans and animals, until they start becoming a big enough ecological problem, or until there is contention over the resources between humans. This case is both of those - there is contention between people who use the lake and farmers, and there is a looming ecological problem for the population of Salt Lake if the like dries up.