image link from here, which also leads to more information about the hazards of the dust
I’ve blogged about The Salton Sea a few times over the years, including here. I came across the following article about the current, alarming situation regarding the sea and those who work and live near it.
As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust
As drought dries up the shallow sea, near a half-million farmable acres in the Imperial Valley, farmworkers living nearby are exposed to toxic dust and airborne pollution from algae blooms. Asthma, allergies, and other health impacts are rising at alarming rates.
July 17, 2023
I strongly urge you to read the rest of the article here.
One thing in it jumped out at me:
Imperial Valley grows an estimated two-thirds of the country’s winter vegetables,
The Salton Sea is basically a storage place for agricultural run-off, an artificially created body of water that happened by accident a long time ago. Now, as it dries up, all of that HORRIBLY TOXIC sludge is being put into the wind for the agricultural workers to breathe in.
When I went out to find youtubes on the matter, instead I found diversionary videos about a drug epidemic in Imperial Valley and “exciting news” about the discovery of lithium deposits [needed for the explosion of battery production for electric vehicles] in Imperial Valley.
Tao Talk 
that is so scary! Wow!
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Especially for the poor families who live it every day :( I’m guessing if they start mining lithium there, the clouds will become even more toxic.
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That was an interesting article. They are right…if this was in LA or San Francisco it would be solved or they would be working on it. I saw a documentary about this place along with a town in Pennsylvania with an underground fire since the 1960s…it continues to burn coal underground and the air is toxic. It was a doc on abandoned towns or with places people were moving away. I’m looking for it….now I want to see it again.
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Horrible! Yes, if it was affecting the fat cats they’d get right on it. I watched a doc a few years ago called, “Blue Vinyl” (2002) about how toxic siding is and how people who live near the factories that make it are affected. “Dark Waters” is a movie about Dow and its evil ways. Let’s face it, this evildoing blankets the globe and there doesn’t seem to be anyone urgently trying to stop the monsters from doing it, as $$$ rules these days :(
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Yea the bottom line and that is beginning to be the world over.
The coal burning since 1962 I believe…I mean geez…I can’t believe they cannot do anything.
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I know! There must be something they can do!
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