SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Wednesday that it is donating billions of gallons of water to the Great Salt Lake.

The church said the water is being released from Utah Lake into the GSL, and it will flow through the Jordan River into Farmington Bay and Gilbert Bay.

It will total 10,000 acre-feet, or 3.26 billion gallons of water. It's being leased by the church, as well as the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District.

“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recognizes we all have a role to play in caring for our natural environment here in Utah, including the Great Salt Lake,” Bishop W. Christopher Waddell, the first counselor in the church's Presiding Bishopric, said in the announcement. “This water lease is one of several projects u

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