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Neat video, but let's not forget two important things about the Great Salt Lake. It's enormous. 950+ square miles. It's a salt lake. Far saltier than the ocea
by buffington 3y ago
Neat video, but let's not forget two important things about the Great Salt Lake.
It's enormous. 950+ square miles.
It's a salt lake. Far saltier than the ocean. No carps are going to be eating solids. The algea or other biological methods described in the video will not work to reset a lake of salt that is nearly the size of Rhode Island.
Revitalizing an area of that size would likely be a far larger undertaking than solving the problem of reduced flow into the lake due to agricultural overuse.
I'm all for clever solutions, but they can also lead people into thinking that it's a problem solved, and that addressing the root cause of the problem isn't needed. It allows people to be complacent and allow abuse to continue. When it all implodes, those who caused it get sit back and see how the rest of us deal with it.