>nooo the Salton Sea wasn't our fault!!! we need more water!!!You're doing your part, right anon?
>>2785400It was the beavers
>>2785400It also happens to be one of the best sources of lithium on the planet. Who knew? It's come a long way from the film Val Kilmer was in.
>>2785523How long until they start mining it en masse and the Salton Sea turns into the Salton Sand Dunes?
>>2785823It’s going to turn into a salt pan if they do nothing. After the canal blowout that created the lake, the lake was fed by irrigation runoff only. Since the Imperial Valley Irrigation Authority has found it more profitable to use more efficient irrigation techniques and sell their excess Colorado water allotment to LA than to continue doing trench irrigation, the amount of runoff flowing into the lake is less than what the lake loses to evaporation each year, which has lead to lake volume loss that concentrated the salts and killed all the fish. Eventually, there will be a small brine pool and a large dry lake bed that poisons the air with dust (already a problem, but it will get 100 times worse as the lake continues to die).
>>2785400More like the Salton seethe
>>2785400>You're making the LA Times seethe>letter to the editor
>>2785405>Exterminate all the beaver and level their habitat >Cut down almost all the old growth>Cyclically log the coastal rainforest >Put concrete and farms over the ancient wetlands >Use the surface water for monoculture >Suck the aquifers dry for nut, citrus, s0i and grapes>The water table drops and the surface water disappears >ShockedPika.jpg
>>2785851They will do nothing. They are the trifecta of environmental destruction:MyopicSuperficial AndVery, very stupid
