Monday, December 9, 2013

USA, California:

Imperial Valley Agencies Develop Plan to Save Ailing Salton Sea (Los Angeles Times)

After 2017, the Salton Sea could be at risk of receding further. The new goal is to raise funds for restoration through the sale of geothermal energy.

Bruce Wilcox, Environmental Manager at Imperial
Irrigation District, looks over the receding waters of the Salton Sea
With an ominous deadline approaching, two feuding Imperial Valley agencies have put aside their differences and developed a plan they hope can save the ailing Salton Sea, the state's largest body of water and often considered its most vexing environmental problem.

The Imperial Irrigation District and the Imperial County Board of Supervisors have agreed to push for additional geothermal energy exploration on the eastern edge of the sea.

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