Laptop Battery In this harsh brown moonscape of a desert 80 miles east of San Diego, the vast shimmering waters that stretch out at the base of the Santa Rosa Mountains make the Salton Sea look like a mirage miles of water too good to be true.
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Thinkpad And in a way it is a mirage. The Salton Sea, California's largest lake, is extremely salty, 25 percent saltier than the ocean and getting more so each day. It often smells bad. Outbreaks of botulism and very low oxygen levels have killed thousands of birds and fish.
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Microsoft The sea's increasing inhospitality, in fact, has turned Bombay Beach and other small resort communities on its shore into near ghost towns. By 2030, scientists say, the 360-square-mile sea America's second-largest saltwater lake, a third the size of Rhode Island will probably be dead, no longer able to support even the hardy species that inhabit it now.
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Laptop Computers Yet the sea, as strange as it is, plays a vital ecological role, and an intense, complicated fight over its future is under way.
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Laptop Computer While few people come here anymore, the sea is an avian metropolis, with some 400 species of birds. Among regions of the United States, its total bird population is second only to the Gulf Coast of Texas.
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Desktop Computer The reason for this abundance is agricultural runoff rich in nitrogen and phosphorus that has turned the Salton Sea into a briny soup oozing with algae and other life. As more than 90 percent of California's coastal wetlands have disappeared beneath bulldozers and asphalt, migrating birds have found the Salton Sea an alternative. The brown pelican and Yuma clapper rail (both endangered) and large numbers of white pelicans, cormorants, great blue herons, snowy egrets and other birds thrive on the fish here.
Notebooks The paradox is not lost on Tom Kirk, director of the Salton Sea Authority in La Quinta, Calif., a regional agency established to save the sea from extinction. "This artificial place that relies on agricultural drain water," he said, "is the crown jewel of avian biodiversity."
Lenovo But the Salton Sea is caught in the cross-fire of a water war.
Hard Drive The sea was originally created by accident, in 1905, when the Colorado River burst through a levee and flowed into a vast depression then called the Salton Sink. The river has long since been diverted, and now it provides water to the sea only indirectly through irrigation runoff from the farms of the huge Imperial Valley.
Travelstar For many years, California has used far more water from the Colorado River than its share under a compact with the other states along the river, and it is under a federal mandate to reduce the amount it draws by the end of 2002 to 4.4 million acre-feet a year from 5.2 million acre-feet. San Diego will have to find an alternative source for 200,000 acre-feet. (An acre-foot, enough water to cover an acre one foot deep, is about 326,000 gallons.) But proposals to make up the deficit largely by conserving water and transferring water rights from the Imperial Valley to San Diego would sharply decrease runoff from the valley, virtually drying up the Salton Sea's major source of water.
Gateway The sea would become "smaller, shallower and denser with salt very quickly," Mr. Kirk said. In as little as five years, he said, it could become too salty to sustain life.
Laptop Parts Mr. Kirk's agency has proposed that 50,000 acres of farmland about 10 percent of the total in the Imperial Valley be allowed to lie fallow. That would make more water available to the sea and still provide San Diego with the water it wants.
Software But fallow fields reduce jobs and income in the poverty-stricken valley. Officials estimate that the measure would cost the region $171 million a year.
Hard Drives And that, says Mayor Larry Grogan of El Centro, would be a deal breaker. "Everybody in the world wants to save the sea," he said. "But I don't think it's possible. You're saving a dead-end system."
Electronics If no agreement on the Imperial Valley water is reached, California may be forced to yield 700,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water by 2003. That could sharply limit economic activity and curtail plans for development in and around San Diego.
Canon Alarmed by this prospect, some Republican lawmakers, state and federal, have sought to change the Endangered Species Act so the threat to several species that depend on the Salton Sea, including the brown pelican, would not jeopardize a water-transfer plan.
Desktop Pc "California is going to have to make some hard choices," said Larry Purcell, a water resources manager for the San Diego County Water Authority. Even if the Salton Sea loses irrigation runoff, he said, "There will always be areas of the sea amenable to these species; it's not like it will be totally useless."
Desktop Computers In addition to destroying critical bird habitat, drying up most of the sea would expose vast salt flats to wind erosion and would create a serious air pollution problem, similar to one in the Owens Valley, where the need for water for Los Angeles dried up Owens Lake in the early 20th century. Officials say a significant water loss could also increase the levels of selenium, a toxic metal.
Think Pad No matter what happens, if the Salton Sea wants to keep attracting birds it also needs to attract federal money. Because of evaporation the salt load in the lake increases each year by more than four million tons the equivalent of a mile-long freight train filled with salt.
Repair Officials say that if no water is diverted from the Salton Sea, it can last 30 to 40 years before becoming too salty to support life. If water is diverted, the process would take just five years. Various options to reduce salinity, perhaps by pumping out water and allowing salt to settle out, are estimated to cost $300 million, which officials hope the federal government will provide. With the water diversion, the cost would rise to $1.4 billion.
Data Recovery While some lawmakers think the sea is the problem, Dr. Stuart Hurlbert, a biology professor at San Diego State and director of the Center for Inland Waters, a group of Salton Sea researchers, says the real problem is trying to maintain San Diego's high growth rate.
Cisco "Ecologically, the best idea is to shut down the idea of transferring water," he said. "As a San Diegan, the worst thing that could happen is to have the water come here to add a million more people."
Keyboard Andy Horne, an El Centro real estate agent and a board member of the irrigation district that serves the Imperial Valley, says the matter is very much unresolved, with the prospect that California's water supply will be thrown into doubt.
Monitor "If you like train wrecks," he said, "stay tuned."
Desktop By Jim Robbins
New York Times - 4/2/2002
Topic: Water
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