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Farm Runoff May Be Tied to Respiratory Illness Near the Salton Sea

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And, as the increasingly salty sea recedes, tens of thousands more acres of playa will be exposedas will decades of pesticides already trapped in the sediments from past farm runoff. At the root of a lot of the [Salton Sea] difficulties are nutrient inputs that are coming in from agriculture.”

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