This winter’s remarkable snowpack offers a few more years before the lake’s ecosystem potentially collapses, unless drastic changes are made in the state’s water consumption habits.
, Perry said the lake’s recovery will likely slow down a bit since the incoming water will fill the whole lake and not just one of its halves in the coming weeks and months.
Perry isn’t one of the report’s many authors but he also believes many people misinterpreted this study when it was first released. He explains that, yes, it would still be a Great Salt Lake in five years; however, if water consumption trends continued without much change, it wouldn’t be recognizable anymore.
“What that has done is that it’s reset the clock on the five years,” he said. “This wonderful snowpack has bought us 2 to 2½ more years or so in order to help our conservation measure actually start to kick in, so we can start using less water so we can put more water in the lake.” In addition, both this year’s outlook and the spring 2021 levels are well below May 1 levels over the past decade and the lake’s overall 33-year median level, per U.S. Geological Survey data.And while the current drought continues to ease up as a result of the record winter, the West remains in the grips of a megadrought, a series of droughts over the past two decades. It may last another decade based on the studies of other megadroughts in the past, Perry asserts.
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