Utah’s gnarly drought leads governor to issue ‘water action’ plan
Citing the extreme drought that had Utah in a chokehold last summer, pummeling residents to conserve water, Gov. Spencer Cox released Thursday what is the first chapter in “Utah’s Coordinated Action Plan for Water.” … The plan taps the expertise of multiple state agencies and builds on a list of more than 200 recommendations to safeguard water supplies in the fastest growing state in the nation, gripped by challenges of new development amid an increasingly arid climate.