Utah's other Great Salt Lake is underground, ancient, deep....and fresh

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Jan 15, 2026, 10:36 am64 pts
Under the Great Salt Lake playa lies a potentially vast reservoir of pressurized freshwater that has accumulated over thousands of years from mountain-derived snowmelt, according to new research from University of Utah geoscientists. This groundwater occupies the pore spaces in sediments that fill the basin…

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