Water bills at the Utah Legislature and where they are in the process
The following is an excerpt from the Salt Lake Tribune’s new Open Lands newsletter, a twice-a-month newsletter about Utah’s land, water and air from the environment team. Some of the bills making the biggest splash on the Hill so far include small revisions with big implications. Take Sen. Hinkins’s SB125, for example. Back in 2022, lawmakers made waves by requiring every secondary water connection in Utah to have a meter by 2030, which is no small lift. Utah has the largest secondary system in the nation, which is good in some ways because it allows us to water our lawns and gardens without using expensive treated water, but bad in other ways because we never knew how much we were using (or wasting).