Why Trump wants to spend $1 billion on Great Salt Lake

At its peak, Great Salt Lake, located right outside the state's capital of Salt Lake City, was bigger than the state of Delaware, covering roughly 2,300 square miles, with a thriving ecosystem and the main reason Utah claimed to have "the greatest snow on Earth." Now, due to a severe water shortage caused by excessive water consumption and lackluster winters, the lake is a shadow of what it once was.

It's been labeled Utah's "environmental nuclear bomb" and it has the attention of the president of the United States...