How Drilling for Lithium in the Salton Sea Is Making For a More Sustainable Future

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3. I used to go fishing for corvina in the Salton Sea with my dad.

https://californiaoutdoors.wordpress.com/2020/02/13/corvina-in-the-salton-sea/

Maintaining the Salton Sea as a rich semi-natural environment with stable shorelines shouldn't be so difficult.

The drying of the Salton Sea isn't really a consequence of climate change. The basin is alternately a lake or a dry lake bed, depending upon how the Colorado River is flowing across its delta.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Cahuilla

It was a dry lakebed in 1905 when the poorly constructed headgates of an irrigation canal failed, prematurely diverting the full flow of the Colorado River into the basin. This would have happened eventually anyways, even without human interference.

However we decide to manage the Salton Sea I think birds and other wildlife should take precedence over human utility. If lithium extraction makes the land or sea toxic that's a bad thing.