Saving The Salton Sea

California's Salton Sea is threatened by a plan to diver water to western cities.

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September 25, 2002, 1:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


"The Salton Sea was created serendipitously in 1905 when engineers were diverting Colorado River water 75 miles to the farms of the Imperial Valley. But the Colorado River, swollen from heavy rains, breached the dikes and for 18 months the entire volume of the river gushed into the Salton sink—a prehistoric lakebed—creating a 376 square mile desert lake, the Salton Sea..."The cynical view is that people want mass transit for other people," said Stuart Elway, who conducted the telephone poll last week. "But it's ultimately more altruistic than that. People are supporting things that are good for the region greater than things that are good for themselves."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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