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Geos Institute helps communities build resilience in the face of climate change

Big sponge: Las Vegas pumping could create ecological crisis

By Tribune Editorial
Salt Lake Tribune
September 15, 2007

Think of the geology beneath the Great Basin as a giant sponge. Mother Nature drizzles water into it in the form of rain and snow. The water creeps below ground from valley to valley in a huge regional aquifer that extends from Salt Lake City to Death Valley.  Read more…

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