Let your views be known through use of the Salton Sea web page, surveys, and other means. Participate in efforts to contact members of the Congress and the Legislature to let them know you feel funding for the restoration is important. Pipelines Pipelines to the Gulf of Mexico, to the Pacific Ocean and to an abandoned test site, were considered as a means of reducing salinity. Because the seawater is also saline, it would simply add to the amount of salt that would need to be removed through either evaporation or some form of desalinization. Any desalinization process currently in use has never been implemented on the scale required for the Sea.
Desalinization is expensive even when it is essential to provide drinkable water.
It makes little sense for the Sea, which is an agricultural sump, not a drinking water source. About Conditions at the Sea 9. Much of the Sea, including open water, is free from odors. The natural decaying process of algae, plants and fish as they die contributes to the smell. In addition, natural processes in the Sea produce ammonia and hydrogen sulfide which give off on odor as well.