Joel Ferry, director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, points in the directoin of Antelope Island at the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City, Utah, on September 10, 2024. In forty years, the Great Salt Lake has lost two-thirds of its surface area, a victim of an agricultural sector and a mining industry that consume too much water, and of global warming which reduces the flow of the rivers that feed it. reaching a historic low in 2022. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)