Should This Lake Exist?
The Salton Sea is the largest body of water in California, home to the second most diverse group of birds in America and it exists by accident. Another great video on the Salton Sea: https://youtu....
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This is the largest body of water in California. It is about 25 kilometers wide by 55 kilometerslong. You can't even see the other end of this lake. And it is home to the most diversenumber of birds anywhere in the continental US besides Big Bend in Texas. And here isthe thing. This body of water is here by accident.Let me explain.Back in about the 1900s there were engineers working on irrigating the fields of the Americansouthwest. They were using the water from the Colorado River, but they were also tryingto prevent it from flooding, from flooding all this farmland.Now in 1905 they got it a little bit wrong and also the Colorado River flooded its banksand used the channels they were building, basically, to flood this whole plain.Now this plain is actua...
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This is the largest body of water in California. It is about 25 kilometers wide by 55 kilometerslong. You can't even see the other end of this lake. And it is home to the most diversenumber of birds anywhere in the continental US besides Big Bend in Texas. And here isthe thing. This body of water is here by accident.Let me explain.Back in about the 1900s there were engineers working on irrigating the fields of the Americansouthwest. They were using the water from the Colorado River, but they were also tryingto prevent it from flooding, from flooding all this farmland.Now in 1905 they got it a little bit wrong and also the Colorado River flooded its banksand used the channels they were building, basically, to flood this whole plain.Now this plain is actua...
