The State of Utah has provided many innovative water solutions including the historical dam/pipe engineering development projects and more recent swap-and-trade negotiations with California, providing win-win solutions with new desalination infrastructure for LA in trade for CA rights in the Colorado River.
The Great Salt Lake Strike Team is the Governor's technical and policy advisory source
The sustaining of a healthy and robust Great Salt Lake unifies many people, experts and advocacy groups. A few Great Salt Lake Citizen-Led & Advocacy Groups, Conservation & Environmental NGOs, and Key Partners are linked here
(I know there are more that I missed):
Grow the Flow: A citizen movement focused on building public will and political action for lasting water policy.
Save Our Great Salt Lake: Organizers, artists, and citizens advocating legislative action and community engagement.
Utah Rivers Council: Works on water conservation and policy to protect rivers and lakes, including the GSL.
FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake: Uses legal challenges, advocacy, and science to protect the lake's water quantity and quality.
Embracing conservation as a “Utah Water Way” of life
Great Salt Lake Collaborative: A broad coalition of journalists aiming to protect the lake by informing the public
USU Institute for Land Water and Air (ILWA) data driven academic science
University of Utah Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy sponsors GSL research
Energy and Geosciences Institute researches lake geology and subterranean aquifers
Great Salt Lake Audubon Society & Wasatch Audubon Society: Focus on bird populations dependent on the lake.
The Nature Conservancy (Utah): Manages the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve and co-manages the Watershed Enhancement Trust.
Great Basin Water Network Stop the West Desert Water Grab
Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation: Involved in restoration efforts like Wuda Ogwa.
Great Basin Bird Observatory: Focus on regional water and avian health.
USGS decades of data collection and assimilation on the geology and hydrology of the GSL (Utah Water Science Center)
Western Resource Advocates: Works on broader water and environmental issues affecting the region.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Oversees the 7-States + Mexico Colorado River Compact and drought relief policies
EPA overseers of the USMag Superfund site
Ski Utah, the Utah Ski Resort Association
Great Salt Lake The official utah.gov website
Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster University
Sageland Collaborative
Please alert us to other organizations that have been inadvertantly omitted here.
