The Post-Apocalyptic World of the Salton Sea

The Salton Sea, one of the world’s largest inland seas and lowest points on earth, exists entirely by accident.

Situated in the Sonoran Desert (the hottest desert in North America) and occupying the Salton Sink (a valley below sea level that has no outlet), the Salton Sea was created in 1905 through an engineering mishap by the California Development Company. Irrigation canals were dug from the Colorado River into the Imperial Valley to support the agricultural land surrounding the sink. Whe...