Imperial Valley (Cultivated Run-Off) (2017)

The Salton Sea at the edge of the Imperial Valley was used by the US military for bomb tests in the 1940s; in the fifties and sixties it was opened up to tourists and reinvented as the Californian Riviera. Fertilizer run-off from the nearby farms caused the lake's ecosystem to begin collapsing in the 1970s. Since then all the facilities and towns located on its shores... Read all