TITLE: Great Salt Lake

Last fall, the Great Salt Lake in Utah, the USA, hit its lowest level since record keeping began. The lake’s elevation sank to nearly six meters below the long-term average, shriveling the Western Hemisphere’s largest saline lake to half its historic surface area. Since they are usually found in arid landscapes that receive little precipitation, saline lakes are the first in line to be affected by long-term droughts, which are becoming more common with climate change. According to a report released by researchers at Brigham Young University in January, the Great Salt Lake will likely disappear within five years if residents continue their current rate of “unsustainable” water consumption.

AUTHOR: Yuan Zhang (China)

Yuan Zhang
Date of Birth: January 18, 1960
Education: BA of Art, Foreign Language and Literature College, Henan University in 1986 MBA, from Beijing International MBA programme, a joint MBA programme by Peking University, China and Fordham University, USA.
Reporter and editor, China Daily between 1986 and 2009. Deputy Editor-in-Chief, China Daily Hong Kong Edition between February 2010 and October 2012. Director of Supplement Department, China Daily between November 2012 and 2013. Bureau Chief, China Daily Guangdong Bureau between 2014 and 2015. Deputy Bureau Chief, China Daily USA Bureau between 2016 and January 2020. Retired in late January 2020. Hobby: travel, photography.
Member of Hainan Documentary Photography Association