Drone footage of Salton Sea reveals California drought affect

Drone footage taken on the Salton Sea, California’s largest inland lake, reveals the dramatic results of the state’s worst drought since 1977. Its receding shoreline has precipitated an ecological disaster as uncovered silt is carried into surrounding areas. From the air, brown furrowed fields stretch so far as the attention can see and the solar beats down on an nearly evaporated canal that appears like a gaping wound. Dusty former boat launches have fallen into disuse, too removed from the waters they as soon as served. Drought has scorched a lot of the U.S. West, prompting farmers in California to go away fields fallow and triggering water and power rationing in a number of states.