[repentant_pundit]

Why connect water-feeding tubes to it, just to preserve a lifeless puddle of salt water ? And if it's so useless for sustaining life, why do Israel and Jordan use it to irrigate crops ??

[TheCrusader]

"The Dead Sea is dying, and only a major engineering effort can save it,"

The Dead Sea is dying, LOL.

[skr]

They irrigate from the Dead Sea's source, the Jordan River, not the Dead Sea. Which is dead, so it cannot die. It would seem more logical to worry about the Jordan.

[Consort]

It's just living up to its name.

[wideminded]

And if it's so useless for sustaining life, why do Israel and Jordan use it to irrigate crops ??

The article said that Israel and Jordan use the Jordan River to irrigate crops.

I wonder what happened to the idea of creating a channel in Egypt to bring water to the Qattara Depression (2nd lowest point on earth). This might be a way of moderating the climate in the Egyptian desert.

[Kay Soze]

More land available for the Israelies!

[wideminded]

I was wrong. The Qattara Depression is the 5th deepest natural surface depression.

link

[denydenydeny]

The Dead Sea gets its name from its heavy salt content, because no aquatic creatures can live in it.

The water pouring into the Dead Sea from the south would counter the deterioration, but environmentalists warn that water from the Red Sea is salty, while the Jordan River supplies fresh water, and this could have adverse consequences.

Someone help me out here. What adverse consequences could come from pouring salt water into a body of water too salty to support life?

[cookcounty]

I'm not an engineer, but why couldn't this be siphoned? Wouldn't the 1.200 foot drop supply the power to pull water out of Aqaba?

[cookcounty]

Believe me, nobody is taking waer out of the Dead Sea to irrigate crops.

[winker]

In Revellation it says Living Water will flow from Jerusalem through the channel created when Jehovah Gira's feet split the Mount Of Olivies upon His Return! This is the permanent fix needed!

[SunkenCiv]

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