The Salton Sea lies about 242 feet below sea level in the Salton Trough, which over thousands of years has cycled between filling with Colorado River water and drying out.

For her entire life, Perez, 22, and her neighbors in Mecca and other portions of the eastern Coachella Valley have lived with ...

From 1905-07, the Colorado flooded in the region, filling what became known as the Salton Sea. The lake has since been sustained by water draining off farms in the Imperial Valley, but it has been ...