One of the plans to stabilize, or lower the salinity of the Salton Sea, is to create evaporation ponds at one end of the sea. Water would be allowed to enter the shallow, large surface area pond to evaporate. The salt that remained after the water was evaporated would be hauled away.

This is shuttle image STS028-0096-0071. These are the evaporation ponds of the Dead Sea (located between Israel and Jordan). The Dead Sea is also a saline lake (six times as salty as the ocean) with no outlet. At 1296 feet below sea level it is the lowest surface water on the Earth.

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