Not really sure what the grift is here. Great Salt Lake Rising seems pretty reasonable reading their website https://gslrising.org/

To quote: “We are coordinating across 30+ organizations to get water back to the lake. The immediate goal: 500,000 acre-feet of annual water savings by 2027.

- Acquire and retire U.S. Magnesium water rights — 80,000 acre-feet annually

- Aggressively remove invasive phragmites consuming 100,000+ acre-feet per year

- Restore Newfoundland Basin — 30,000 acre-feet

- Partner with agricultural water users through split-season leasing and crop optimization

- Expand secondary water metering for accountability and conservation

- Purchase and lease water rights to permanently return water to the lake

- Refine policy tools to make leasing, delivery, and conservation easier”

Seems to be associated with an all star group of Utah philanthropists. Not seeing what the angle would be other than restoring the lake.