Dust blowing off the shrinking Great Salt Lake is eroding Wasatch snowpack and that could eventually threaten drinking water
(Photo courtesy of McKenzie Skiles) University of Utah geography professor McKenzie Skiles, right, measures snow density, a step toward estimating the amount of water in the snowpack, at a test site in the Sierra Nevada.

Dust blowing off the shrinking Great Salt Lake is eroding Wasatch snowpack and that could eventually threaten drinking water

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