Great Salt Lake in July 2022

Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level last month as a megadrought persists across the US southwest, forcing the fast-growing city to curb its water use. From space, satellite images show how water levels have fallen from 1985 to 2022 – exposing large expanses of lakebed.

This image was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 4 July 2022. 

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