Salton Sea threatened by inaction, experts say

By Jim Steinberg, The Sun 11/12/14, 3:00 AM PST RIVERSIDE >> Experts speaking at UC Riverside on Monday say the problem with a shrinking Salton Sea was identified some 50 years ago but the remoteness of the site has partially kept it off the fix agenda. “Here we are at almost 2015 and the clock is ticking to 2017 and we have no consensus about what to do,” said Mark Matsumoto, a UCR professor of chemical and environmental engineering. In two years a court order [...]