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This lake wasn’t planned — and that’s why its story is so unsettling. 🌊 The Salton Sea was created by accident in 1905, when the Colorado River broke through irrigation canals and flooded a desert basin. What followed was a boom: resorts, fishing, tourism, and dreams of a desert paradise. But the sea had no natural outlet. Over time, salts and agricultural runoff built up, fish died, birds vanished, and the shoreline retreated. Today, the shrinking water exposes toxic dust and cracked lakebed —
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