I don't get it. Utah's governor wants to raise the level of the Great Salt Lake to around 4,200 feet elevation by 2034. David Tarboton, a Utah State University professor of water resources engineering, says to achieve that goal in about nine or 10 years will take about 800,000 acre feet of water per year (85,000,000 gallons). The governor also wants to build 30,000 more homes in Utah in the next few years.