folks, you gotta see this movie!

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I agree with you. The original locals were just, essentially, stuck there after having been scammed by the Realtors with their usual "flipping" and "investment potential" hype.

The urban transplants.... bringing in their worthless street lingo and single parent kids... seems to be the writing on the wall. I can envision an area that is nothing more than a desert ghetto of severe poverty that grows and grows upon itself through teenage motherhood and zero jobs.

There are areas in the middle east like that today..... desert poverty. Severe desert poverty. The only thing they have to do for entertainment is baby making.

As they stated in the movie, man has destroyed 90% of the natural wetlands between SD and LA in CA, which is a main flyway stopover for millions of birds. WE created the wetlands around Salton which replaced them. So the loss of Salton would add to the ecological disaster. And as also stated in the film, you would think the extremely rich folk of nearby Palm Springs would have a major interest in this as turning Salton into a dried up alkali flat would make their town pretty crappy when the winds get to blowing. (Read up about what happened in Owens Lake.) There was also a great documentary called "Saving the Bay" about what a determined group of women could do that saved much of Golden Gate Bay around SF. Seems like we screwed it up so we should fix the problem.