• The lake’s surface water rise tumbled to 4,190 feet on Sunday.
• The lake’s low record was 4,191.4 feet in October 1963.
• Water use and the environmental change-filled dry spell are behind the lake’s downfall. 

The Great Salt Lake in Utah has dropped to its least level on record for the second time in under a year. An environmental change energized megadrought fixes its hold in the West.

The lake’s surface water rise tumbled to 4,190 feet on Sunday, as per information from the US Geological Survey.

Before last year, the lake’s low record was 4,191.4 feet in October 1963.

Utah authorities currently calling for “critical activity” to protect the Great Salt Lake in the midst of its third consecutive year of decline.

“It’s reasonable the lake however in a difficult situation.” Utah Department of Natural Resources Executive Director Joel Ferry said in a proclamation.

“We perceive more activity and assets that required. We however effectively working with the numerous partners who esteem the lake.”

Water use and the environmental change-filled dry spell are behind the lake’s downfall. Said David O’Leary, analytical investigations boss with USGS Utah Water Science Center.

“Lake levels rise when inflows surpass dissipation and fall when vanishing surpasses inflows.

Last year, when the noteworthy low was recently broken, lake levels declined until mid-October prior to evening out off.”

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Water authorities say they have seen water dissipation and exhaustion surpass how much water that making it into the lake, authorities say.

Laura Vernon is the Great Salt Lake facilitator with the Utah Department of Natural Resources. She said they preferably prefer to see the lake increment by no less than 2.5 feet every year to compensate for how much water it commonly loses.