The Salton Sea, California's largest lake, is rapidly drying up. As more lakebed is exposed, the playa, containing 100 years worth of farm chemicals, continues to become airborne, sending billowing clouds of toxic dust towards major population centers in the Southwest.

Several years ago, I received a call about a community activist, Randy Brown, seeking to do something no one had ever attempted — to walk around the hazardous 116-mile shoreline of the Salton Sea. In June of 2015, with temperatures reaching 120 degrees, he set out on his 6 day, 115 mile journey to raise awareness for sea’s plight.

This began what would become a three year journey to document his story and ultimately bring to light an incredibly beautiful and forgotten piece of natural history which had been left to evaporate and disappear.

At the beginning of 2017, the remaining flows of the Colorado river which have helped sustain the sea, were diverted to outlying cities, ultimately leaving it without a new source of water. This documentary was made to raise awareness towards the prevention and restoration of a vital natural resource, critical to the economy and ecology of southern California. One of our main solutions we proposed is a project that will positively foster U.S. and Mexico relations, something we believe is of vital importance considering today’s political atmosphere.

According to countless studies and experts, without a new water source, Southern California will soon face serious public health risks due to degraded air quality. The region would face loss of extensive wetland habitat, massive animal die-offs, economic distress, decreasing water levels, dangerously high salinity levels and massive exposure of shorelines containing harmful PM10 dust.