The Great Salt Lake is facing a potential threat of a new dam on its largest tributary, the Bear River. The Bear River Development, a state-sponsored plan to store water and support growth in northern Utah, has been on the books since the 1990s. However, a recent emergency news release from Grow the Flow, an…
No one anticipates a career in the brine shrimp industry. Timothy Hawkes certainly didn’t. He found himself working as the legal counsel for the Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp Cooperative nearly seven years ago, shortly after joining the Utah Legislature. Now, he finds himself speaking at a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization-sponsored panel on…
Jake Young, a professional landscape architect and city planner, initially did not prioritize water conservation as part of his work at Citi Design, a land use and planning firm. It wasn’t until he worked on the West General Plan for Salt Lake County that he realized the importance of incorporating water into his process. The…
