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There's a new study that says it is natural. That it has risen and disappeared a few times within the last 1,500 years. Native American people knew of them existing before this one. Sorry, I don't have a links.

@@selah71 The basin has been a lake in the ancient past but things are different now. Humans flooded it by accident a hundred years ago and since then there has been no drainage outlet. The irrigation water from farming has drained into it ever since then and now it is full of residue from pesticides and fertilizer. As it dries up this time it won't just go back to being a desert, it will be a toxic desert for quite a while.

BINGO. The state and feds are not about to sink billions of dollars in an attempt to make an agricultural lake some ongoing safe haven for displaced coastal birds, especially not when it's in the middle of a desert and all the major fresh water lakes / reservoirs are dangerously low too. And if we didn't help the Indians in the late 1800's for similar reasons, we sure aren't about to help the wildlife much less the poor people that live out there. It's sadly unfortunate but that's the hard reality of it. They'll just try to find a way to mitigate the toxic dust once it's all dried up and blowing into the rich burbs of Palm Springs and L.A. It's a sad shame but I don't see this issue getting better. It's not going to be a restoration. It's going to be a toxic clean-up effort and may not even get that.

Well said!!!

Ok humanity failed in the garden of Eden 😮 so why get all judgemental now chill😂

Salt isn't even worth producing in that way

The brine is a by product. They still use salt ponds around the world to make salt let alone starting with a condensed brine

Most people are stupid now.

Our futre is doomed.

I'm scared of what people used back in the 60s and 80s now have that dust get in you're face

@@thesilentone4024 True, there's been dust flying around long before the Salton Sea mistake happened. Water in the SW is far too precious to send to a big, stinking lake, that's used for nothing but feeding some birds. It will continue to dry up and be gone soon so people need to deal with that reality.

@@MrArtist7777 did you watch it if this lake drys up hundreds of spices will probably die or migrate somewhere new. Also if it drys um health problems everywhere. If they keep farming like normal California will probably be told to stop or people not the government the people my burn the places down why. California has 50 use of are lake water 50% we get 4% how is that fare.

@@thesilentone4024 Sorry, your comment is very difficult to read, your grammar is quite poor. Yes, I watched the video as I'm originally from southern Cal and have been to the lake and yes, I know there might be some health issues with the chemicals blowing up and yes, I know that fish will die, which were planted there by humans in the first place and are going to die soon anyway as the salination level in the lake is rising rapidly, and the birds will fly away to the coast or another lake. Yes, I know all of these things but it doesn't change the fact that Cal, and the whole southwest, is in a severe drought and can't send extra water to a dying, useless lake, it's just not possible or logical, so people need to deal with the facts and reality; the Salton Sea will be gone within the next decade so people around the lake had better deal with this fact or move elsewhere.

Speaking from CO, top of the river, there's just less water period. Whether by decades of droughts or floods our old water distribution model becomes ever more disastrous. Sadly 25 years of studying the river and the people living off of it has only shown me that it's getting worse and the people only appear to care less...???

No it needs freshwater/rainwater. If you keep adding saltwater the h2o evaporates leaving the salt behind and the salt content rises and rises.

@@Tina-mt9cl The Salton Sea has more salt content than the Ocean Walter already.

@@johnmaldonado750 Which is why it needs more freshwater flowing into it if any fish and surrounding wildlife are to survive.

@@Tina-mt9clcan't they figure out a way to filter the salt out of the water ? i mean personally i don't think this thing should even be here, humans shouldn't mess with nature like this

Ten times worse than that, you bet that book gates is looking forward to buying all of those states when land value goes down to pennies on the dollar.

Why did you say that?

Greenie: Me go to beach often and me thinks ya know nothing.

A Reset. That's what happens.

I'm pretty sure Mountain Dew is the preferred choice for watering gardens in the documentary Idiocracy

"Brawndo ....with Electrolytes...it's what plants crave"

The ocean isn't nearby.

It's below sea level. Not sure how that works.

@@forcesightknightit's below sea level so its actually easier to funnel water to it by using gravity and the ocean in mexico is close to it

Ummm, it is a desert. There is no run off or rain flow out there. It is 120 degrees in the summer, like every day. It was a dry basin before it was flooded by accident a hundred years and it is going back to what it was.

Do you realize how big it is? It wouldn't be that easy. Look at it on a map compared to San Diego. It's big but is just a very shallow lake. It's done. It's not coming back. They may sink money into energy resources such as lithium mining and solar but because of how scarce water already is, the state and or federal government is not about to save a dry desert lake that was never supposed to be there to begin with. It's called a "sea" but is not actually a sea at all. It's a shallow lake created as a by product from agricultural water for farming. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea

Because we worship children now.

I knew about the salton sea since 2014 and I was 13 at the time..

Where do you live?

i know, right.?!?!?!?!?!

Most annoying!!! 🤪

It wasn’t a failure. It was planned.

rocky mountains or pump staright into colarado river.

Clear lake

The birds most likely moved from Owens Lake, Mono Lake, and Crowley Lake when Los Angeles stole the water from there in the '20s and '30s. Owens lake is gone and is a horrifically natural disaster. Crowley and monolake were saved by the skin of their teeth and are a fraction of what they once were. A human accident created the Salton Sea then the humans wiped out the habitat of the birds so they migrated to the Salton Sea now we have taken what we have given.

They are consumers of the land...not caretakers

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

Inconceivable! Isn't that from the Princess Bride, haha

It does not matter. That drought will spread east and cover the entire country. There will be nowhere to go. This year we will be slapped in the face by god until we all turn to him. The entire country has become a real sodahmen and gamora. God is going to beat the sinful nature this country has shosen to do. They have become selfish, greedy, liers,murders. Thrives, prostitutes, and now you will feel his anger for disobeying him. Like a father corrects his children, so is it with our father in heaven. And all of you, until you turn to him these nightmares will continue to get worse.

@@nenamart5272 Taliban say very similar things , just saying !

Humans destroyed everything else already.

Right. He sounds like Beavis and Buttheads teacher.

Set the playback speed to 1.25...much better 👍

Whuuuut?

The solution isn't a solution, rather a mirage.

@@sentientflower7891 why actually the whole rescue plan looks very promising it just needs honest serious intention to solve it

@@maxd3028 the rescue plan was conceived before Lake Mead and Lake Powell entered the terminal phase of their drying. All that agriculture is going to end and there won't be any more runoff.

@@sentientflower7891 I don't know why the government didn't at Least do a cloud seeding or for the long term why they didn't think of a reforestation plan that as well can alter the weather

@@maxd3028 cloud seeding doesn't work.