Mormon Church Provides Water to Save Great Salt Lake.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is donating 20,000 acre-feet of water rights to Utah's Great Salt Lake, which has shrunk to its lowest levels ever due to a supply-demand imbalance caused by decadeslong regional drought. The church is one of the biggest land and water rights holders in the western United States and is expanding its role in conservation. Scientists worry that if the lake's current trajectory continues, the surrounding areas could become desolate wastelands. Utah lawmakers have passed a variety of drought-related measures, but demands have grown louder for lawmakers to commit to keeping the lake at a baseline elevation.