The Great Salt Lake doesn’t get any water from the Colorado River, but this year the lake is in danger of reaching a tipping point where its salinity becomes so high due to low water that it can no longer support life for brine shrimp. Brine shrimp are what migrating birds eat as they travel across Utah, so losing brine shrimp means millions of migratory birds will be affected. A dry Great Salt Lake also means tons of environmental harm to humans because the toxic dust hidden in the lake bed is becoming more and more exposed.

The drought in the US West is a thousand disasters happening at once. I’ve been keeping an eye on Utah news about it and it’s happening even faster than I anticipated tbh