- Address health problems due to toxic dust from drying Salton Sea.
- Keep the most toxic elements still under water from becoming airborne.
- Healthy environments provide peace of mind, sprit, and soul searching.
- Healthy environments build healthy bodies.
- Restore & protect our environment
- Bring back fish and wildlife.
- Provide a rich and natural environment for our future generations.
- Healthy environments bring prosperity.
- Prosperity supports restaurants, arts and crafts, entertainment.
- Healthy environments increase property values, and create a healthy space for building low cost housing.
- Water import will keep the price of water and food at a lower cost.
- Water import can completely fill the Salton Sea.
- Water import will make the Salton Sea less salty.
- Save the total depletion of our natural aquifers to be a precious reserve for future use and prevent land subsidence.
- Water can be imported from the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean.
- Pacific Ocean route would keep project in-state.
- Sea of Cortez route needs to be an international project.
- Sea of Cortez route in less costly, cheapest is 800 million.
- Pacific Ocean Route is most costly is 15 billion.
- Desalination of salty water can be done with safety measures to store and sell salt.
- Salty water can be made into potable water to drink, wash, and irrigate land.
- California is in a drought, along with Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.
- Our local water supply is low and unable to fulfill existing needs.
- Can be a major source of water supply for the Southwest.
- Safe Lithium Extraction and Water Import are compatible.
- Water import will provide safe, clean air for geothermal workers.
- Lithium extraction requires large amounts of pure water.
- Lithium can be extracted with slanted pipe tunnel under a filled lake.
- Lithium, Agri and Water businesses can use part of profits to keep our environment pristine, keeping life healthy for all.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tc6OBRjXh0
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