Sansi Jas, the Last Iteration of the Saltan Sea

The sultan is in a desert basin surrounded by mountains. It's actually below sea level, and over the past ten thousand years or so, it has flooded and evaporated countless times. The last iteration of the ancient cawel lake was formed more than a hundred years ago when irrigation engineers diverted water from the colorado river through a system of canals to turn desert into farmland. In 19 o five, there a great flood and the canal burst creating the saltan sea we know to day. But get one whiff of this strange place and you instantly know that something is really wrong.