I watched the full version PBS documentary on TV on the salton sea from its beginnings of a nightclub/Vegas style famous people destination.
And then the demise of it all. Including sadly, videos of thousands of birds dead, waves and waves of dead fish and up to now the stench that still lingers.
And NO one gov agency will clean it up. They just left it that way. Welcome to America's little 3rd world country...Salton sea. And yes there are people living there with no clean water etc.
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea | Truly CA | Truly CA | PBS
www.pbs.org/video/truly-ca-plagues-pleasures-salton-sea-episode-302-trulyca/
Once “California's Riviera”, the Salton Sea is now America's worst ecological disaster.