People visit the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 9, 2024, some choosing to step into the water. 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 consumes 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)