- Seventy percent of Salt Lake County residents express concern about the Great Salt Lake.
- Hispanic/Latino and Pacific Islanders show 10% more concern than white residents, the study found.
- It also found that women and young residents are more concerned about the lake’s decline.
Editor’s note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about the plight of the Great Salt Lake.
SALT LAKE CITY — Over two-thirds of Salt Lake County residents say they are concerned about the shrinking Great Salt Lake as it continues to fall this summer.
However, that concern seems to carry across different backgrounds and personal experiences to differing degrees, according to a new University of Utah research that explored perceptions of the health, economic and environmental impacts of the lake…