(Chris Detrick | Tribune file photo) This 2010 file photos shows Blanding behind a home in the Westwater community in San Juan County. The roughly two-dozen homes in Westwater lack running water and electricity, but that could change if a $500,000 appropriation request included in Gov. Gary Herbert's 2020 budget is approved.
Zak is the southeast Utah reporter for The Tribune. He has been writing from Bluff, Utah, since 2015 and is the author of Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political On Rivers of the New West. His second book, which will cover the decline of Lake Powell, is forthcoming from Torrey House Press in 2024.