California Sketches: For the Salton Sea, imagining the possibilities

The Sacramento Bee (June 15, 2014) — The Salton Sea has been a place more notorious for beauty forsaken than for opportunities. Jay Lund, of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, says that “three flows are important for the Salton Sea: water, wildfowl and money.” Cleaner water, in the form of treatment facilities, salt evaporation ponds and wetland restoration, will benefit waterfowl. As for money, any strategy will cost a lot.

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