People visit Silver Sands Beach 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)