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Inside what the Church of Jesus Christ is doing to save water and the Great Salt Lake

People walk on the beach of the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City on Friday. One of the world’s largest hypersaline lakes, the Great Salt Lake is on the verge of collapse due to climate change, drought and population pressures that have reduced inflows and shrunk the lake by more than two-thirds.

People walk on the beach of the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City on Friday. One of the world’s largest hypersaline lakes, the Great Salt Lake is on the verge of collapse due to climate change, drought and population pressures that have reduced inflows and shrunk the lake by more than two-thirds. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)


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