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California's Once-Glamorous Toxic Lake
 
 
California's Once-Glamorous Toxic Lake
August 30, 2011 | The Salton Sea was once a tourist destination, a "Palm Springs with water." Now the largest lake in California is an environmental crisis; the water is toxic and the surrounding area abandoned. Photojournalist and filmmaker Jim Lo Scalzo contrasts these two visions, layering archival footage with new images of the landscape.