Farmers have yet to lease water to help the Great Salt Lake. Here’s what they have to say.

Moving Utah’s water downstream is a complicated and controversial process.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dan Harris of Eden walks around the snow bank just off his front porch, Mar. 6, 2023. Harris grows hay and Christmas trees on his 9-acre farm and is the president of Middle Fork Irrigation Co.

Farmers have yet to lease water to help the Great Salt Lake. Here’s what they have to say.

Moving Utah’s water downstream is a complicated and controversial process.

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