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Old 04-30-2012, 08:55 AM
 
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An article that i found that i thought some of you might be interested in.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-1781836 (broken link)

"It was once hailed as a "miracle in the desert". Now the Salton Sea is an ecological disaster.
California's largest lake often looks like an ocean - it covers about 375 sq miles and is home to many migrating birds.
But the inland sea is saltier than the Pacific Ocean and is slowly dying from its own salinity - and the agriculture run-off which sustains it."
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Old 04-30-2012, 09:51 AM
 
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An article that i found that i thought some of you might be interested in.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-1781836 (broken link)

"It was once hailed as a "miracle in the desert". Now the Salton Sea is an ecological disaster.
California's largest lake often looks like an ocean - it covers about 375 sq miles and is home to many migrating birds.
But the inland sea is saltier than the Pacific Ocean and is slowly dying from its own salinity - and the agriculture run-off which sustains it."
The link you gave is broken. I think the question is whether we even want to save it. The Salton Sea stinks.
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Old 04-30-2012, 09:57 AM
 
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The link you gave is broken. I think the question is whether we even want to save it. The Salton Sea stinks.
And it was a mistake to begin with. If it had happened today, the environmentalists would have made them pump all the water out.
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Old 04-30-2012, 10:01 AM
 
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hopefully this link fixes the problem:

BBC News - Can California's 'desert miracle' be saved?
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Old 04-30-2012, 10:23 AM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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The Salton Sea as a habitat replaced the former delta of the Colorado River as that river no longer reaches the sea in Northern Baja as the Gulf Of California. And as mentioned in the video, if that thing dries up, the toxic cloud would be a nightmare.
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