NASA Satellite Imagery Shows Utah's Great Salt Lake Is Drying Up at Alarming Rate

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Nov 5, 2016, 12:57 pm248 pts
Five years of drought and over-use of water from feeder rivers has seen Utah's Great Salt Lake shrink by almost 40 percent. The changes were dramatically revealed in before-and-after photos taken by the Landsat 8 satellite, recently released by NASA. Before and after images taken in 2011 and 2016 reveal…

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