They used the sea as a new windfall, taking water from it for irrigation, and returning the salts from the run-off to the Sea, while the only drainage was by evaporation. They stocked the Sea with salt water fish, and built seaside hotels and tourist attractions, to bring in the fishermen. But the sport fish died, leaving tilapia, a very hardy African species put into the irrigation ditches to eat the exotic weeds that grow there, and warnings multiplied to avoid eating the fish because of selenium poisoning, and the presence of coliform bacteria. And they found that even the hardy Tilapia can be poisoned, piling dead fish along the shore. No, not yet.
Technologists are great for doing, but seem to be very poor at thinking.
When the need for thought arises, they disappear. The problems of the lake scared off the tourists, and the reduction in easy money scared off the technologists, but the non-equilibrium system continued its decline to ruin. In 1992, about 15,000 Eared Grebes died as the result of some environmental upset. Then in 1995 about 3000 White Pelicans died of botulism, along with 1000 endangered Brown Pelicans. And Newcastle virus killed Double Crested Cormorants.