>>2785823It’s going to turn into a salt pan if they do nothing. After the canal blowout that created the lake, the lake was fed by irrigation runoff only. Since the Imperial Valley Irrigation Authority has found it more profitable to use more efficient irrigation techniques and sell their excess Colorado water allotment to LA than to continue doing trench irrigation, the amount of runoff flowing into the lake is less than what the lake loses to evaporation each year, which has lead to lake volume loss that concentrated the salts and killed all the fish. Eventually, there will be a small brine pool and a large dry lake bed that poisons the air with dust (already a problem, but it will get 100 times worse as the lake continues to die).
