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Water Development, Consumptive Water Uses, and the Great Salt Lake
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Water Development, Consumptive Water Uses, and the Great Salt Lake |
| Creator | Null, Sarah E. Wurtsbaugh, Wayne A. |
| Description | Great Salt Lake (GSL) covers 5500 km2 (2100 mi2) at its unimpacted elevation and is the eighth largest saline lake in the world. Its highly productive food web supports millions of migratory birds and the economic value of the lake is estimated at $1.5 billion US dollars in 2019. Droughts and wet cycles have caused huge fluctuations in lake level, area, and salinities, and this variation has masked anthropogenic impacts. Recent work, however, has determined that consumptive water uses in the... |
| Date | 2020-07-01T07:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/1116 info:doi/10.1007/978-3-030-40352-2 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/wats_facpub/article/2138/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf |
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| Source | Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Contributor | Springer International Publishing |
| Subject | Great Salt Lake Water level Lake elevation Depletion Terminal lake Salinity Utah Life Sciences |
