California's biggest salt sea is disappearing
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00:00If there's no intervention at all, the sea will shrink to about two-thirds of its size.
00:30Water in the southwest United States is a precious commodity.
00:59There isn't going to be enough water in the Salton Sea to have it the size it was in the early 2000s.
01:24This used to be the best fishing in the world right here. That's why I come here to live.
01:30Now I'm retired, too old, I can't go nowhere else.
01:52We'll see tens of thousands of increased hospitalizations from respiratory disease, asthma, and some of these particles are associated with leukemia and other types of cancers as well.
02:06It would be an air quality disaster unparalleled in the world today.