Clock is ticking on dreams of saving Salton Sea with water from Mexico's Sea of Cortez

Lucia Levers, formerly of the University of California, Riverside, is an environmental scientist and economist at the University of Minnesota’s Water Resources Center. She studied the idea of seawater importation and came away unimpressed by the potential cost and timeline. 

“The idea of a transnational agreement of this magnitude being somehow put in place immediately so you could even begin construction — which would take forever — as a way to save the sea when the sea is dying right now, it’s just ridiculous,” Levers said. “That solution is not a solution for the sea.”