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Look: 7 Great Salt Lake images reveal how shockingly fast its shrinking

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Droughts and water shortages are becoming more extreme in the western U.S.

As the climate crisis worsens, many areas are seeing drastic landscape changes.

Take Utah’s Great Salt Lake, for example.

Explosive population growth coupled with worsening droughts have led to record-low water levels in recent years.

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