Great Salt Lake Shrinks to Under 30 Percent of Natural Volume
Utah's Great Salt Lake has fallen to 29.7 percent of its natural volume, compared with 37.5 percent in 2025, and more than 57 percent of its lakebed is now exposed. The nonprofit Grow the Flow estimates that adding 1 million acre-feet of water annually would give a 70 percent chance of reaching a healthy range by 2054, two decades after Gov. Spencer Cox's 2034 restoration target. Meeting that goal would require cutting water use in the basin by roughly 40 percent, with restoration costs estimated at $2 billion to $10 billion.
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