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Every Drop Counts Protest Held by Torri Barrett
January 1st, 2008 was the first day of many more to come for the Every Drop Counts Protest founded by Mr. Rick Davis of Salton City. Mr. Davis wants to let Sacramento know that the people of Southern California don’t approve of the State’s plan to dry up almost 60% of the Salton Sea. The State’s “preferred plan” is to make a small saline lake at the north end of the current sea and a salt marsh at the south end, drying up everything in the middle. This would leave the residents of all of the communities surrounding the Sea victims to what ever has been dumped into the Sea over the last 100 years as the winds would kick up the dry lake bottom thus polluting the air with all manners of substances including selenium a highly toxic substance. At 11am sharp over 100 concerned residents poured 100 gallons of clean water into the dying sea to protest the States inaction and empty promises. Petition gatherers also passed out petitions demanding that the Lawmakers restore the Sea ASAP. Mr. Davis a long time resident of the area started the idea that Every Drop Counts when it became obvious to him and many others that the politicians in the rest of the State don’t care about this dying ecosystem that is so vital to so many species of migrating birds as well as its’ human inhabitants. Every Sunday Mr. Davis will be pouring 7 gallons of fresh water into the sea.
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