(Salt Lake City, UT) — Environmentalists are calling state lawmakers to take emergency action to save the Great Salt Lake. A report released by several dozen researchers and conservationists says Utahns are underestimating the severe consequences of letting the lake decline. The report calls for a minimum of two-point-five-million acre-feet of water to be directed to the lake to help restore it. To get that amount of water, agricultural and residential users in the Salt Lake watershed would have to reduce consumption by 30 to 50-percent.