SALT LAKE CITY — Shrugging at the exposed, arsenic-laced lakebed visible from the causeway, state officials confirmed there was simply no way to prevent the Great Salt Lake from shrinking, despite it happening slowly, in public, over several decades, directly in front of everyone. “We’ve studied the lake going away extensively, and our findings conclude that it is, in fact, going away,” said one lawmaker, gesturing at a marina whose boats now rest in a parking lot of cracked mud. At press time, officials had allocated $40 million to a task force charged with watching it happen more closely.
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