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Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner, worth a read!

Salton sea features heavily, and you’ll learn the whole American West is on as fragile a water setup with similar health, civil and economic problems to follow as what this Salton sea example, but imagine it applying LA-wide, central Oregon-wide, Salt Lake valley-wide.

Water issues out west will be a major issue of USA’s next 70 years. Very scary stuff.