Utah’s predominant faith has a huge stake — and could have a huge say — in the Great Salt Lake’s survival.
— to fund water projects near its own headquarters?
• Be an advocate for Latter-day Saints to do the same and be part of the solution. The economic and environmental impacts of losing the Great Salt Lake, he says, “are so enormous, the church should speak out and get engaged.” “When it comes to taking care of the earth, we cannot afford to think only of today,” Budge said. “The consequences of our actions, for better or worse, accumulate into the future and are sometimes felt only generations later. Stewardship requires feet and hands at work in the present with a gaze fixed on the future.”
Many farmers want to pare their water use, but some “are feeling embattled,” Abbott says, believing if they do so, it will just be “snatched up by urban development.” “Wouldn’t that be amazing,” he says, “to see in this watershed?” The church also could assign ward or stake water conservation specialists. Such collaborative efforts, Abbott says, would “tap into our pioneer heritage.”
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