A series of bills have been unveiled on Utah 's Capitol Hill addressing some issues with water conservation , including ensuring that saved water actually gets downstream to places like the Great Salt Lake . The bills, obtained by FOX 13 News on Monday, were filed ahead of a meeting of the Legislative Water Development Commission, an advisory group to the Utah State Legislature on matters of water policy.
"The drought pushed us to recognize just exactly how close we are to the edge and how much we need to tackle this problem very quickly," said Sen. Scott Sandall, R-Tremonton, who will sponsor some of the water bills in the upcoming session of the Utah State Legislature. Some important bills will address a problem highlighted in recent reporting by the Great Salt Lake Collaborative (of which FOX 13 News is a member): the legislature has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to persuade farmers to switch to new technologies that allow crops to be grown with less wate
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