California’s Deadliest Body of Water

From PBS Terra.

Once celebrated as a desert paradise, the Salton Sea lured boaters, swimmers, and vacationers from across California. Now, it’s a chemical soup evaporating under the desert sun and leaving behind toxic dust storms. Shane Campbell-Staton, host of Human Footprint, roams around the toxic wasteland with community advocate Luis Olmedo, navigating how decades of neglect provoked an urgent environmental crisis.