Activist Mina Guli has been running marathons to raise awareness about global water issues. Cyclists have also been touring California with a focus on water.
Seeing Lake Mead at just 28% of full capacity after 23 years of drought, Guli said she felt “to some extent frustration and anger that we’ve allowed this to even happen.”Colorado River in Crisis: A Times series on the Southwest’s shrinking water lifeline
Looking up at the towering rock, Guli said, “I felt so small in the face of the enormity of this entire crisis.” The journey took riders from Joshua Tree to the Coachella Valley, and beside the Salton Sea, which is fed by water draining off farmlands. The cyclists also rode next to the U.S.-Mexico border, stopping to see the area where the last of the Colorado River“It was really a profound experience,” Garrick said.
The Salton Sea has been shrinking and growing saltier, its retreating shores exposing stretches of lakebed where dust billows into the air, contributing toJorgensen said cycling enabled her to experience what it’s like for farmworkers and others who spend time outdoors near the lake.The Biden administration has committed $250 million for projects to control dust and restore habitat around the shrinking Salton Sea.
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