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s4ltydog t1_isqee8d wrote

Well that’s not good….

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DarkerThanAzure t1_isroufj wrote

A bit hyperbolous to say nearly all dried up, but the water line has receded quite a lot. It's a very shallow body of water so it doesn't take much volume loss to see a large difference in surface area. The lake is still mostly there by volume, but we certainly need to continue taking action to alleviate it's current trajectory.

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tapiringaround t1_isrxu2t wrote

In the last 35 years, it has lost nearly 3/4 of its volume.

This takes 5 seconds to google

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DarkerThanAzure t1_ist0zd8 wrote

35 years ago was 1987 which was when the Salt Lake recorded some of its highest water levels in recorded history. The volume it had them came after years of abnormally heavy precipitation. If you're gonna compare how much it's lost, compare to the average, not the record high.

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