Saving the Great Salt Lake will be his 'top priority' in office, the new head of Utah's Department of Natural Resources said at his Senate confirmation hearing on Friday.
SALT LAKE CITY — Saving the Great Salt Lake will be his"top priority" in office, the new head of Utah's Department of Natural Resources said at his Senate confirmation hearing on Friday.
"I would like to see an updated study and a re-look at what is available and then look at what our population projections are," Ferry said."Because the needs were based on gallons per capita day of what we were using then." "I think Mr. Ferry is not only a great, qualified fit for the job, he understands the legislative process. He gets the politics of water in this community and I think he’s absolutely right. The study that was commissioned and produced in 1992 no longer meets the needs of the state of Utah. So I think it’s high time we do have a new study with fair questions that look at the reality of water going forward and not backward.
Ferry called for more conservation and acknowledged Utahns may have to make further sacrifices as the state continues to grow. He said he wants to see the agency increase support for turf buy-back programs and Utahns may not be able to have as much non-functional lawns in the future and have more drought-tolerant landscapes."To look at agriculture and say this is the limit, there’s only so much water," Ferry said."We need to be conserving.
But what the future of conservation looks like may be different in each part of the state. He pointed to Washington County communities passing some strict ordinances on landscaping and water use.
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