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E-mailJordan is facing a new water dilemma, as it is trying hard to keep the Dead Sea alive, yet is scared of the consequences the proposed plan may cause.
The proposed plan entails linking the red sea with the Dead Sea. Such a step could actually feed the Dead Sea. However, environmentalists are raising doubts about this plan, as they are worried about mixing water of both seas, since this could affect the characteristics and composition of the Dead Sea, which are known to be special ones that are not present in any other water bodies.
The Dead Sea situates between Jordan, to the East, and the West Bank of Palestine, to the West. Its shores are known to be the lowest point on the face of this earth. It is also famous for its salty water, to have one of the world’s highest salinities, making it impossible for animals to actually live in it, and that is where it got its name as the DEAD Sea.
However, the Dead Sea is not so dead, as by the end of the day, it is filled with a unique combination of minerals, giving its body a great therapeutic benefit, and attracting people who come for treatment from several diseases which are know to benefit from its composition, as well as its position; which creates an increased atmospheric pressure.
So the big question now is: Is feeding the Dead Sea with water of different characteristics a safe step? Or will we create a problem by imposing an external, differently composed, water body, which could have negative consequences on its own composition, while such consequences may not show in a lab test, but may need a long term, real life experiment to appear!!!
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Unfortunately earth doesn’t keep uniqueness very long
Earth like conscious life is a constant churning and who knows what the next uniqueness will be
May your constant changes be pleasant ones
It is just that the Dead Sea is definitely one of my favorite places ever... and I hate to see it destroyed...
but as u said... who knows what the next uniqueness will be... maybe I’ll go there one day and see some fish swimming in it, who knows... now that would make it a REAL unique place :)
seeyoo around :)
Hope your dreams come true and hope the images formed in your mind are kind to you
Tell the next one —take care
Thx for the comment :)
”The level has fallen from 394 meters below sea level in the 1960s to 420 meters below sea level as of mid-2007,” said the World Bank. The water surface area is down by a third, from 950 square kilometers to 637 — about the size of Lake Geneva.
”For Jordan it is a water-supply project,” said Meehan. ”While for Israel it has perhaps as much to do with regional politics. For them, desalinating Mediterranean water is much more practical.”
He told Reuters that he didn’t foresee the project being commissioned before 2020.
The main concerns are the effects on marine life in the Gulf of Aqaba of the extraction of such large volumes of water, the effects of that water mixing with the Dead Sea, and the funding of the project.
A report from the World Bank earlier this week took the findings of two separate studies into account to determine the environmental factors.
“The outcome of mixing of these two water bodies over a time scale of decades is unknown and is difficult to model and predict,” it found.
”Clearly, the Dead Sea will change its composition and characteristics as they are known today or were in the past if it receives large volumes of water from the Red Sea.”
Environmentalists warn that in mixing the two seas, the composition of the Dead Sea could drastically change and turn white as gypsum sediment precipitates and green blooms grow.
I just hope they could find a solution to the shrinking sea without having to jeopardize its unique qualities...