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Friday, May 27, 2022
The impacts of salt and nitrate pollution are costing the state at least $3 billion per year and taking ag land out of production, with salts impacting the valley for decades to come.
With 95 percent of California’s Central Valley wetlands lost over the last century to urbanization and highly productive agriculture, researchers warn that the area’s once prolific native salmon could disappear within 50 years.