The air and the water in Southern California's Imperial Valley are clogged with poison. Once advertised as the birthplace of a bright new future, offering 'all that your children's children will want', Salton City is now crumbling into the apocalyptic landscape that surrounds it. Local resident Ernie gives us a unique insight into life in this devastated region. As farmers burn their fields, and the honey bee population dwindles, scum floats like little icebergs up the most polluted river in North America, which carries raw sewage, pesticides and factory waste from Mexico into the once-beautiful Salton Sea. The military carry out controlled explosions on the plains, while the squatters of Slab City scrape together a life for themselves off the grid. Mexicans seeking a better life wade their way across to the US bank, our guide tells us, "'cause they have it so bad over there, they don't even care. Sometimes people just die in here in the water. Just like that."

01:00:35 - Smoke clouds rising from burning fields, Imperial Valley California
01:02:23 - Deserted empty playground
01:03:44 - Salton Sea, heavily polluted
01:05:36 - Racers and off-roading on Glamis Sand Dunes
01:08:29 - Old promotional footage of Salton Sea
01:10:52 - Dilapidated town
01:13:48 - Old promotional footage of water sports on Salton Sea
01:14:48 - Sunken city, destroyed town, terrible water pollution
01:16:42 - New River, California to Mexico
01:20:37 - Slab City, motor homes, makeshift homes
01:29:48 - Plane dropping pesticides on fields
01:30:18 - Beekeeping, lots of beehives
01:32:01 - Long train carrying military equipment
01:36:52 - Helicopter flying overhead
01:37:15 - Burning fields
01:41:00 - Rubbish dumping ground
01:45:15 - Skate park
01:46:03 - Beautiful sunset

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