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Utah’s Great Salt Lake, dubbed “America’s Dead Sea”, is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere. But its days may be numbered, with two-thirds of the lake’s surface lost in forty years as a result, say scientists, of climate change and the overuse of water by agriculture and industry. But despite the impending environmental disaster, getting many locals to accept climate change is to blame in the conservative state has proved a challenge for campaigners, who also fear what another Donald Trump presidency would mean for the future of the lake.