The Salton Sea is one of the most important places for birds in North America and is recently in danger of losing its ecological value. As the Sea changes, we will face losing a vital part of the Pacific Flyway and face a toxic dust bowl that will threaten public health for more than a million Californians.

Dust from the Salton Sea is causing serious health problems for hundreds of thousands of people who live nearby. It is also harming the region's economy and disrupting the environment. It is well past time for the State of California to keep the promise it made to protect the people of the Imperial Valley from this disaster and begin work on projects to control airborne dust and restore the environment.

Please send an email to Gov. Gavin Newsom asking him to direct the State Department of Resources to begin work immediately.

As water has been diverted away from the Salton Sea in recent years, more shoreline has been exposed, releasing huge clouds of toxic dust into the air that our families breathe. Habitat for birds and other wildlife is deteriorating. Beginning on Dec. 31, the Sea will get even less water, exposing as much as a hundred square miles of lakebed by 2030, severely degrading air quality for the 1.6 million people that live in the region.

When the state agreed to the water diversions fifteen years ago, it agreed to do the restoration projects that would prevent ecological disaster. But in that time, it has not broken ground on a single project.

The State already has the necessary funding and a plan to build at least 15,000 acres of projects at the Salton Sea in the next ten years, but progress has been too slow and people and birds in the region are suffering. This year, thousands of birds died from an avian cholera outbreak that demonstrated the cost of inactivity. We can put these types of events behind us if the State of California can complete much-needed habitat projects there.

Governor Newsom and his leadership team have promised to take action and have asked to be held accountable for progress at the Salton Sea. Please send an email to Newsom thanking him for his commitment and asking him to direct the State Natural Resources Agency to complete promised habitat restoration projects at the Salton Sea.

It's now time for the state to deliver on its promise to restore the Salton Sea. The lives of millions of birds and people are depending on it.