The Lake Is Murky,

and full of toxic materials and algae,

and has had a number of huge die offs, in one day it is estimated estimated that 7.6 million tilapia died, it is not a small lake either, encompassing an area of 343 miles and reaches a maximum depth of 43 feet, if conditions in the lake were not bad enough, when its water evaporates the local area is subject to wicked dust storms that pick up toxic sediment from the dried lake bed and pollute the air for residents, “Nearly 1 in 4 kids have doctor-diagnosed asthma, which is a really high rate,” says Jill Johnston, an assistant professor of environmental health at the University of Southern California who has done research on the storms’ effects on children. “It suggests that there’s  issues happening that are sort of predisposing some of these kids to respiratory health problems.” The lake in California is known as one of the biggest disasters in California history, a lake I had never heard of before, it is called the Salton Sea and is amazingly 25% more salty that the ocean, but It was not all bad, in the 1960s, the Salton Sea rivalled Yosemite as a tourist destination, attracting the likes of Frank Sinatra and former president Dwight Eisenhower. The sea’s proximity to Palm Springs and San Diego, a variety of conditions that made it perfect for boating and the warm winter climate of the Southern California desert made it an attractive destination. The sea was host to resorts, 12 functioning marinas and multiple constructed key developments for vacation homes, but in 2020, Palm Springs Life magazine summarized the ecological situation as "Salton Sea derives its fame as the biggest environmental disaster in California history", for the full story have a look here, image via the Daily Californian.