Voices: To save Utah’s children, we must save the Great Salt Lake

If the lake continues to dry out, kids who are now under age six — and those yet to be born — could live their whole lives in dusty, toxic conditions.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dust blows over the Great Salt Lake on Monday, May 12, 2025.

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