Folks stroll close to the Nice Salt Lake on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information
It’s incredible that the Nice Salt Lake was certainly one of Gov. Spencer Cox’s prime legislative priorities this previous session. I hope it would proceed to be subsequent yr. And as a part of that effort, I hope he'll rethink the worth of setting a goal elevation for the lake.
It's true, because the governor said, that setting a goal elevation doesn't get a single drop of water to the lake. Nevertheless it is likely one of the items of data wanted in deciding what number of drops of water (OK, acre-feet) we have to get to the lake. Which in flip tells us how far we’ve include the actions the Legislature has taken the previous two years, and the way far we nonetheless must go.
We shouldn’t be afraid of getting a aim. It isn’t a mandate to attain it in a single yr. It doesn’t maintain us from interested by different essential elements, akin to price. It is a approach of telling ourselves if we’re making important progress, or falling quick. We’ll by no means hit our goal if we don’t know what we’re capturing at.
Steve Glaser
Holladay