More water is headed to the Great Salt Lake as a direct result of people’s conservation efforts.
On Monday, the Great Salt Lake Watershed Enhancement Trust announced it would spend about $1 million to lease about 2,500-acre feet of water from the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City & Sandy. It’s new water that is a direct result of people’s conservation efforts on the east side of Salt Lake County.
“It’s 2,500-acre feet annually on average for the next five to ten years, and it’s been made possible largely as a result of water conservation,” said Marcelle Shoop, who heads the Trust, which was created by the Utah State Legislature and run by the Audubon Society and The Nature Conservancy with the goal of buying or leasing water for the lake…