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Salton Sea Sustainability Issues Addressed
Nov. 10 panel to discuss UC Irvine’s Salton Sea Initiative, UC Riverside research By Bettye Miller on October 31, 2014 Sustainability issues of the Salton Sea will be discussed Nov. 10. Photo courtesy of USGS RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Created by accident and once a popular tourist destination, the Salton Sea has been the receptacle for run-off of salt, fertilizers and pesticides from the nearly half a million acres of agricultural land that surrounds it. The Salton Sea Initiative at the University of California, [...]