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Strike-team summary shows shifting basin water use; commissioner announces $50 million delivery program
Summary
The Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner presented a strike‑team Scribe summary showing municipal and industrial water use growing in parts of the basin while outdoor residential depletions rise; officials also announced a $50 million Bureau of Reclamation-funded Great Salt Lake Water Delivery program with applications due Friday.
Hannah Fries, deputy commissioner for the Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner, briefed the Great Salt Lake Advisory Council on the strike‑team Scribe data-and-insights summary and outlined a new $50 million water‑delivery program funded through the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Fries said the Scribe team split basin water‑use data by subbasin (Bear, Jordan River, Utah Lake and Weber River) to show differing patterns of depletion. "The Bear, as you can see here, is still largely agricultural water use," Fries said, while the Jordan River Basin shows most use in municipal and industrial sectors and very little…
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