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DinosaurDied t1_j2mz6qv wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Well, warm enough for a hike so might as well by HomeOnTheMountain_

Well farmers are taking about 80% of our water to farm in a desert and are incentivized to waste as much as possible. Pretty safe to say when push comes to shove, water rights will change and the salt lake will fill back up again.

Also its looking like climate change is making winter storms more extreme which makes the high desert a winner since our water is reliant on big winter dumps rather than year round consistency. A lot of unknowns, but I would rather still have a winter than be riding in the rain like ya'll right now.

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[deleted] t1_j2q5yyf wrote

You clearly haven’t been there that long my dude. Water in the West is a racket. It’s organized crime. The oligarchs in charge of it all will drain that lake dry and run all the heathens out of SLC, and the Utards will cheer on their oppressors and die at 50 from the pollution to own the libs. These degenerates roll coal on purpose FFS.

The skiing is awesome there but it is truly a godforsaken place to live. They barely even let you drink beer there. They’re 10 years away from being Mormon Qatar.

Water rights are a legal fiction, but the people who benefit from it have all the power. Nobody cares if SLC has a bigger economy and more people, if it’s not stuffing the pockets of the people at the top. Just like no one in Qatar cares about all the slaves they killed to host that world cup. It made the criminal royal family a lot of money, and that’s all that matters. In a theocracy, heathen lives are valued about as much as cockroaches.

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