The Dead Sea is dying?
Nothing can live in that water, can it?
“Better Dead than Red” out of the Jordanians?
Wonder how rapid the influx of water might be. That could prompt geological concerns.
The cause of the depletion of the Dead Sea is the diversion of water upstream in the Jordan River for irrigation.
If they took the tailwater from the irrigation projects and put it into the Dead Sea, it would likely be as saline as anything they’re going to get from a de-sal plant. One of the things common to deserts is a high salt content of the soils; irrigate it enough to push the salts down below the root zone and any runoff from irrigation through drain tile is salty as all getout.
A great example is seen here in the US in the Imperial Valley, CA and downstream at the Salton Sea.
bump
Oceans come and Oceans go, lakes form and then disappear, animals appear and then become extinct, regardless of the reason it is still the "natural order" of things except to an environmentalist it means they need to stick their noses in and impose regulations on everything in sight.
if Jordan decides to fill the Dead Sea up to
be at ocean level, how much
land does Israel lose?
How could using the wastewater from a desalinization plant introduce foreign species?
I’m under the impression that the process of desalinization is sufficient enough to kill off the bacteria/algae/fish/etc that would be found in the raw seawater.
The government in Amman has said it is planning to extract more than 10 billion cubic feet a year from the Red Sea 110 miles to the south, feed most of it into a desalination plant to create drinking water, and send the salty waste-water left over to the Dead Sea by tunnel.Fascinating idea, since Jordan is landlocked.
A better pipeline [Dead Sea-Red Sea or Mediterranean?]
Jerusalem Post | 6-29-09
Posted on 06/29/2009 5:53:08 AM PDT by SJackson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2281601/posts