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How Salt Lake City learned to move water from mountain snow ...
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Roughly one day separates the water in residents’ taps from the canyon creeks. Taylor Hartman The first pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley needed water, desperately. This “right place,” as Brigham Young declared it, was a high desert, after all. To grow crops, live and settle, water had to be diverted.
The Wasatch Mountains, looming above these pioneers’ new homes, represented both a challenge and a benefit. There existed water, but it was locked in the peaks above, stored as winter snow—then, in the spring and summer, running through steep canyons into the watersheds of the Great Salt Lake.
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