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Salt of the Earth

Does this look like the Antarctic? It's Not! These are salt evaporation ponds — 75,000 acres of them — near the town of Guerrero Negro, Mexico. Big pumps suck salty lagoon water out at a rate of 528 million gallons per day. What happens next?

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