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Share this: A swing set stands alone in the Salton Sea. State officials are helping fund experimental projects to extract valuable lithium from the lake s brine. (Photo by Shae Hammond for CalMatters) California’s desert is littered with remnants of broken dreams hidden ghost towns, abandoned mines and rusty remains of someone’s Big Idea. But nothing looms larger on an abandoned landscape than the Salton Sea, which languishes in an overlooked corner of the state. The water shimmers and broils in the desert like a rebuke: born of human error, made worse by 100 years of neglect and pollution. California’s largest lake is also one of its worst environmental blights, presenting a problem so inverted that its toxic legacy intensifies as its foul water disappears.

United statesSalton seaCoachella valleyUniversity of southern californiaImperial countyImperial valleyAnyssa garciaJonathan weisgallGavin newsomShae hammondMiguel hernandezDavid hochschildEduardo garciaLuis olmedoEnergy departmentColorado school of mines