EDITORIAL: Wanderings: The Edge of the World: Salton Sea, USA

In one of the lowest, driest places in North America sits the Salton Sea, a product of the largest man-mad distaster in the country. It is California’s largest body of water, approximately 35 miles north of the Mexican border.

Although freshwater feeds it, the sea is now 25 percent saltier than the ocean and filled with pollutants from Mexico's New River. Only 60 miles south of Palm Springs, the once-thriving resorts around the lake have been declining along with the water quality in the sea, and the rising water level has flooded buildings.