Utah’s ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’

<p>The Great Salt Lake is drying up.</p><p>Soaring demand for water, exacerbated by drought and higher temperatures in the region, are shrinking the waters, which play such a crucial role in the landscape, ecology and weather of Salt Lake City and Utah.</p><p>Can the lake be saved?</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/christopher-flavelle?smid=pc-thedaily">Christopher Flavelle</a>, a climate reporter for The New York Times.</p><p>Want more from The Daily? For one big idea on the news each week from our team, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Utah’s dilemma raises a core question as the United States heats up: How quickly are Americans willing to adapt to the effects of climate change, even as those effects become<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/climate/salt-lake-city-climate-disaster.html"> urgent, obvious, and potentially catastrophic?</a></li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>