The Lake

Great Salt Lake’s collapse is far more than an environmental issue; it’s a public health and economic emergency. Around the world, drying saline lakes have led to ecological collapse, economic devastation, and serious public health crises. But Utah still has a chance to write a different ending.

The Lake is a vérité film that follows three individuals fighting to save a dying lake. They see what’s coming—poisoned air, a collapsing ecosystem, a community on the brink—and they throw themselves into the everyday, often mundane work of trying to stop it. As they push against bureaucracy, apathy, and the ticking clock of a crisis decades in the making, something eerie and heartbreaking lingers at the edges: the dust rising in the background, a reminder of what will be lost if they fail.

Official Selection 2026 Sundance Film Festival

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Grow the Flow is a citizen-led movement uniting science, storytelling, and civic action to do what no community ever has before: save its saline lake before it's too late.

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