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Farmers want to help the Great Salt Lake, but feel like ‘scapegoats’ for a more complex problem
As the search for solutions to the shrinking Great Salt Lake continues, researchers at Utah State University opened up conversations with the biggest water users in the state: farmers. Among the findings resulting from those interviews is that farmers in the Great Salt Lake Basin feel they are “scapegoats” and “unfairly blamed” for the complex problem. They say amid debate around the lake, critics often don’t recognize that as the lake has declined, so has agricultural water use. And farmers argue that they have something in common with the Great Salt Lake — that their ...
