This is a well written account of where the Salton Sea now stands. It is a story of nitrogen overload, salinity overload, species in crisis, politics apathetic, economy in turmoil and the always relevant discussion on human waste and corporations unwilling to take responsibility for their mistakes and losses.
The Salton Sea did not ask to be born. It was spawned from greed and the diversion of the Colorado River over one hundred years ago of water it so desperately needs today as it no longer flows to the Gulf of Mexico. The Salton Sea stands as a monument to human hubris and our failed responsibility to the water and the species and ecosystems struggling to survive there.
Political solutions are as usual scant in size and slow to come as we now once again argue over the best course of action to save it or to even save it at all as we as usual take no responsibility for its current and future fate.
More at the link about the history of the Salton Sea and the story behind its current and future fate.
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