Briefly: Cracking a Utah mystery: How much of the state’s water simply disappears into the air?

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, a new network of sensors, called the Utah Flux Network, is being designed to track evaporation and evapotranspiration, which is the water released by plants. Understanding rates of evapotranspiration is poorly understood, and these new sensors could help provide new data to guide water conservation decisions.

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