[norton]

"...could have left the district on the hook for maintaining adequate water in the Salton Sea for environmental purposes..."

The Salton Sea is an accident, it's dead, it smells, and it must be artificially maintined or simply allowed to evaporate.

If there is an ecological arguement, it is that any effort to maintain the thing is upsetting natural processes.

But I guess it sounds good to be 'saving' something.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Lots of bird watchers go to the Salton Sea!

[Poohbah]

The Salton Sea is an accident

Indeed. IIRC, a canal operator screwed up. If there is an ecological arguement, it is that any effort to maintain the thing is upsetting natural processes.

By definition, it's intervening in the natural processes of the desert.