Drought delivers grasshopper and Mormon cricket infestations
With the drought comes grasshoppers. Infestations of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets are ravaging agricultural lands already challenged by dry weather conditions.
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Oakley City, Utah, is placing a 180-day moratorium on new building permits and landscaping requiring city water. The ban is due to public health and safety concerns resulting from extreme drought.
Due to extreme drought conditions, the Bureau of Land Management is enacting fire restrictions on all of Utah's BLM-managed lands. The first phase of restrictions begins June 16.
Utah's governor has declared water restrictions, urging residents to conserve as the drought rages on.
After 18 years of negotiations, the end of 2020 brought passage of the Navajo Utah Water Rights Settlement Act.