ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 4月5日 00時04分

Photo by @Gerd Ludwig. Regular irrigation in the fields along the Salton Sea in Southern California is a blessing for various bird species, which find nourishment in the watered fields and relief from the dry,  all-year-round heat through the sprinklers’ cooling showers.

A victim of geography and hard-ball politics, the Salton Sea is California’s largest, most troubled lake. It lies 227 feet below sea level with no outlets and very thirsty neighbors, including a billion dollar farm economy in the bone-dry Imperial Valley and salt laden wetlands hosting a menagerie of wildlife in growing crisis.

With low levels of rainfall and only few inlets, the Salton Sea depends on the Imperial Valley’s agricultural run-offs for its survival. The run-offs, however, are filled with nutrients from the fields, creating algae blooms that depleted the Sea’s oxygen and have killed much of its fish population.

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