The Tribune's Editorial Board writes that the loony idea of a Pacific Ocean pipeline distracts from real water-saving steps.
The boat marina on Antelope Island is rendered inoperable as The Great Salt Lake continues to shrink as seen on Tuesday, March 15, 2022.
A giant pipeline, starting at the Pacific Ocean and proceeding up and over the Sierra Nevada Mountains and down again to refill the rapidly diminishing Great Salt Lake. What could possibly go wrong? The obvious answer to a shrinking lake is to put more water in it. But the water that would naturally flow that way, through the Bear and Jordan rivers, is on the decline, for two reasons. One is the megadrought that the Southwestern United States continues to suffer through. The other is increased draws of water from the Great Salt Lake’s tributaries used for drinking, irrigation, industry and all the other things that go up along with the size of the human population.
Waiting for a Pacific pipeline to come to the rescue of the Great Salt Lake threatens to discourage state and local officials and others concerned with our state’s water supply from taking any of a number of intermediate, yet more effective, steps to conserve water and let more of it flow into the terminal lake.
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