"Great Salt Lake presents us with a chronicle of death foretold. She is a living presence, a sovereign body who gathers life-giving water in the Great Basin. Her survival and ours depends on our capacity to change." Terry Tempest Williams Great Salt Lake is the first in a series of publications by Fazal Sheikh examining the effects of climate change and extraction in the western United States. It charts the destruction of the lake by industrialization and its pollution by chemical waste, the loss of natural wildlife habitats, the siphoning off of rivers that feed it, and the toll taken by rising temperatures and long periods of drought, all of which have brought the lake to crisis point. Sheikh reveals the condition of the lake in visceral images that, together with an essay by Terry Tempest Williams, present a record of Great Salt Lake at its lowest ebb.
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