You may have heard the headlines before: without immediate intervention, an “environmental nuclear bomb” is set to go off in the Western USA, in Utah. The Lake, an urgent, fact-filled documentary from Utah-native and first-time feature documentarian Abby Ellis, starts by providing an alarming statistic: over half of the water in the Great Salt Lake is diverted for human use. Utah is the second driest state in the country but has the second highest water use per capita, mostly for agriculture. Without direct intervention and scaling back of human water use, that bomb is set to go off. And soon. Scientists Ben Abbott and Bonnie Baxter publicly report that without immediate change, the lake has five years before total collapse. Read More