One answer to Utah’s brutal drought could be a large metal structure that looks like a football goal post at the foot of the La Sal Mountains near Moab. … State agencies, water utilities, ranchers and ski resorts across the parched Western United States are increasingly spending millions each year on new ways to create more rain and snow. They’re betting on a growing body of research showing the interventions could squeeze at least a little bit more water from storm clouds. The practice, known as cloud seeding, has been used for decades. It has typically involved injecting particles of silver iodide into clouds from airplanes or from the ground to nudge precipitation to fall. Drought fueled by climate change is driving a quest for new ways to try it. 

Other drought impact and response news:

• FOX13 (Salt Lake City): A USU sprinkler experiment could help farms save labor and water
• KUER (Salt Lake City): Green grass can’t tame Utah’s ever-hotter summers. That’s a job for a tree