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John Trotter Freelance
"No Agua, No Vida: The Slow Death of the Colorado River Delta"


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"Salton Sea" An abandoned vehicle rusts at the remains of a community submerged by the rising Salton Sea, which receives irrigation runoff water from the Imperial Valley Irrigation District. The water, which has leeched the salt out of Colorado River-irrigated Southern California farmland, once part of the river's vast delta, is also laden with pesticides and fertilizer.
 

 

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