Environmentalists are suing Utah to force water cutbacks to farmers to save the Great Salt Lake. Farmers call the blame unfair and say that would have its own environmental and economic consequences.
Receding water in Utah's Great Salt Lake is seen on March 5. Environmentalists are suing the state to force water cutbacks to farmers to save the Great Salt Lake.
The Great Salt Lake's shrinking is already killing the brine shrimp that feed migratory birds. The dust storms are also increasingly threatening Utah's snowpack and its snow-fed reservoirs, not to mention the lake effect snows themselves that help the state's multi billion dollar ski industry. "Farmers are maybe some of the best conservationists in the country and they seldom get the credit for it," Carter says.On a factory floor in Logan, Utah, farmer Clay Carter demonstrates his company's new irrigation technology that he says helped cut his water use in half.
Todd Pearce and his father-in-law grow alfalfa to feed their dairy cows that produce cheese for the company Organic Valley. Pearce worries that if more water doesn't start flowing into the lake soon and the wildlife continue to decline, the federal government might intervene with an Endangered Species Act listing.
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