House and Senate leaders will unveil a series of bills next week aimed at water conservation and the Great Salt Lake.
"That will be a big policy and a big funding priority for us," House Speaker Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, told reporters on Friday.
Asked by FOX 13 News if measures will be taken specifically to get water into the Great Salt Lake, Speaker Wilson replied:"We’re continuing to work with water districts to have water released to the Great Salt Lake ... the water conservation bills will ultimately do that, so that is the strategy." Other bills currently in the Utah State Legislature include incentives to convince people to ditch"non-functional turf" ; money for agriculture optimization to help farmers and ranchers switch to water-saving technologies; paying farmers not to grow certain crops; efforts to get schools to cut water use; a resolution setting a target water level goal and a bill to dip into sales tax money to fund Great Salt Lake preservation efforts.
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