[zelly]

Don't stop, just keep flooding it. Aren't the ice caps melting? Eventually an ecosystem will form.

[anigbrowl]

There's an ecosystem there now, people just don't want to learn about it.

[refurb]

Ok, a better ecosystem?

[AlotOfReading]

Like the Salton Sea not too far away? F that, give me the clean desert over that mud pit.

[refurb]

Salton Sea is indeed gross, but it used to be a lake, but then drained, so I understand it's a mix of farm runoff and dead fish.

My comment was in jest anyways, nothing wrong with the Death Valley ecosystem.

[aww_dang]

One of the proposals for flooding the Salton Sea includes using the local geothermal power for desalination and irrigation.

[kethinov]

Continuous inflow isn't the problem, outflow is the problem. With no outflow aside from evaporation, it would just get continuously saltier.

[redisman]

Like the Dead Sea?

[alicemaz]

could call it the death sea