DRIED UP: In Utah, drying Great Salt Lake leads to air pollution

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Air pollution in Salt Lake City was so bad last year it set off the fire alarms in Elizabeth Joy’s clinic.

Joy, a family and sports medicine doctor, said that her patients had to be evacuated as part of the emergency response.

Yet in sending the patients outside, the alarms actually put people in an even more dangerous position given the city’s air quality at the time — which was judged to be the worst in the world on that particular day.

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Cars and wildfires contribute to Utah’s air pollution, but the Great Salt Lake is a less obvious but important contributor. Sitting just northwest of Salt Lake City, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere is drying up because of water use and drought amid a changing climate, sending dust with toxic metals — including arsenic — in the air of a metro area with approximately 1.2 million people.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dried-up-in-utah-drying-great-salt-lake-leads-to-air-pollution/ar-AA11LQ5f

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1. Whoa! This is not good. I had no idea things were this bad. What can be done?

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2. Reverse climate change?

Honestly, there is nothing short of major flooding at this point. Last time that happened, in the late '70s or early 80s or both, it was a mess. Especially because the interstates weren't finished and you had to go through some of the city to on I80 and I15.

I'll never forget it, the I80 road corridor was surrounded by water most of the way to Wendover for months it seems, lasted for years out to Tooele.