Talk:Salton Sea
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I've replaced the Salton Sea stub with a greatly increased discussion of it's formation, overall history, and some of the environmental and political issues.
However, it still needs work: the history is brief and I intermingle history and politics when they should probably be separate.
Since the Salton Sea (and what to do with it) can be a sensitive issue for people in those parts, I've tried not to offend, but it will likely take a few revisions to get a good NPOV.
Kaszeta 20:53, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Super, that's a lot more useful that the junk I left here those many months ago. I hope you'll add a photo or two, and ideally details of the settlements that (if memory serves) surround the sea. Also, I don't know if there are any rivers that naturally flow into the salton sea (I guess there aren't), but any artificial inflows should be added to List of rivers of the Americas by coastline's "inland basins" section. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:05, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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- Local communities added and linked to, most of which are just census data stubs and should be fleshed out at some point, with links back to the Sea. Local river basin has been described, and some of the overall information on desalination efforts was added. Partial Metric conversion, too, to save someone the effort later (Aside: how do metric countries measure irrigation water---i.e. what's the closest metric equivalent to acre-feet? I've never thought of that before). -- Kaszeta 13:29, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I BELIVE THAT THE THPEOPLE SHOULD SAVE ITIS NATIOAL LANDMARK SHE BE PRESERVED FOR AS LONG TO KEEP IT GOING —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.244.78.114 (talk • contribs)
Did you know there is a documentry about it? [1] --207.189.233.158 00:34, 26 June 2006 (UTC)Gord
An anon had deleted the Disasters category link. Let it be clear that that tag is there because the lake was formed by a dike breach, a disaster by any definition; it is not a judgement about whether the resultant lake is a Good Thing or not, a matter about which we should maintain NPOV of course. seglea 06:01, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Salton Sea DIE!!!
The Salton Sea is unnatural... people should stop trying to save it. It's not a Good Thing. It is an abomination and it must go. It will evaporate soon enough if people just leave it alone. It does not belong. --Node 21:31, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
- I guess drying the sea up would disperse too much salt and other stuff all around that territory. Although it would be natural, of course, to let the sea evaporate by itself. 212.92.145.60 15:12, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
- This isn't the place to talk about such things, this is merely a place to discuss the article (oh and we can't add that the sea should or shouldn't disappear as that is a matter of opinion).Father Time89 (talk) 21:29, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
The article goes straight into a section that discusses how to 'save' the Salton Sea, without mentioning how it is endangered, or what saving it might consist of. This is perhaps not noticeable to people who've been maintaining the article for a while.
[edit] Tilapia are the survivors but they look all dead in the photo
so like there is a photo of dead tilapia fish but the article says the tilapia are the ones that survive the best. Is it getting too salty for them too? or are those other less tolerant fishes dead there?
[edit] Sea-level Canal??
The idea of a sea-level canal for Salton Sea strikes me as dubious. A sea-level canal connects two bodies of water, both of which are at, um, sea level. For example, the Suez canal. But the Salton Sea is *below* sea level, so it doesn't qualify. In other words, there is no way Salton Sea could be at one end of a sea-level canal. Water would simply rush down the canal from the ocean into Salton Sea. I would like to see a reference to proposals for such a canal and study them for validity. Otherwise, I propose that the topic should include a disclaimer about the workability or be omitted entirely. Jedwards05 (talk) 01:01, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Creation Section
The section involving the creation of the salton sea repeats the story of how the Salton sea was created, I propose we combine relevant information from the two repeats and cut back on the repeated informationFather Time89 (talk) 21:41, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
