This pink color comes from millions of halobacterium that live in the lake and transmit the pigments in their cells through the water. Since the Great Salt Lake has no outlet, salt brought into ...

The pink appearance of the North Arm of the Great Salt Lake looks quite different from the typical blue-green water seen near the Marina. Parrott says this difference started when the lake was ...

Those wishing to see the pink water themselves should be prepared for extreme outdoor conditions as there are no services within several miles of the Spiral Jetty and the north shores of the lake ...

Water only leaves the Great Salt Lake lake through evaporation, ... Pink water in the Great Salt Lake's north arm as seen near the Spiral Jetty, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021.

This lake was created when an ancient body of water called Lake Bonneville partially dried up, leaving behind the much smaller (but still substantial) terminal lake known today as the Great Salt ...

By the end of summer, the lake is almost entirely gone, and what's left behind is a glistening salt flat tinted with pink. Koyashskoe Salt Lake, Crimea. (Photo: helena2010/Shutterstock) ...

Great Salt Lake is up over 3 feet — but it has a long way to go to healthy ... It has become so hypersaline few creatures survive other than salt-loving microorganisms that turn the water pink.

On the playa: Where there was once water in abundance, there is now just the dry, cracked, exposed lake bed. (DeAgostini / Getty Images) This article appears in the September 4/11, 2023 issue ...

About 65 percent of the water on the Great Salt Lake watershed goes to agriculture. Farmers have a right to that water, and under historic laws they could lose the water they don’t use.