America's Fastest-Growing Urban Area Has a Water Problem

Published: May 23, 2018, 7:12 a.m.

b'This storyoriginally appeared on CityLaband is part of theClimate Deskcollaboration. When Latter-day Saint migrants arrived in Utah in 1847, a verse in Isaiah served as consolation to them in the dessicated landscape: \\u201cThe wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.\\u201d Lately, the desert has blossomed nowhere more than the St. George area, in the state\\u2019s southern reaches.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'