Preserving an Accident, the Salton Sea in California, for the Good of Nature – the article by FELICITY BARRINGER (Nov. 10, 2014) published at The New York Times. Typical story about disappearing saline lake:

“In some ways, Salton’s fate is like that of other disappearing saline lakes, such as the almost-vanished Aral Sea in Central Asia and Lake Urmia in Iran: They are slowly getting saltier and disappearing because people have purloined the water that flows into them.

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The Salton Sea ….. “is a microcosm of the world. Everything will be increasingly managed as we leave fewer natural resources. The complexity of the issues grows as the resources are becoming more and more scarce.”

The Salton Sea, created accidentally when Colorado River floods overwhelmed flimsy dikes, fills crucial ecological niches in southeastern California but is becoming increasingly salty. Credit Monica Almeida/The New York Times