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Dead Sea

By Sita DahalPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
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Israel and Jordan have spoken for 15 years about plans to pump water from the Red Sea into the Dead Sea. The Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Project or Vision Pipeline, which would transport 120 miles of water between the two glasses of water, received much attention as an effort to save the sea, but it could be a major water exchange between Israel and Jordan. In more than a decade, Jordan has taken over half a million refugees from Iraq and Syria.

The plan to pump water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea is still under discussion, and how it will be used. The question is how the program will be funded, whether it will cause significant environmental damage to Israel and Jordan, and who will bet on it.

In a rare case of regional cooperation signed in 2013 by Jordan, Israel, and the West Bank a memorandum of understanding on a $ 1 billion project to supply the region with water and increase water flow in the Dead Sea. The World Bank-sponsored project is the Red Dead Project that will draw from the river at the Red Sea from a new desalination plant in the Jordan Aqaba harbor. In February 2013, Israel signed a bilateral agreement with Jordan and US and private industrial and financial partners as well as regional and international partners to exchange seawater with the Dead Sea desalination brine.

In October 2009, the people of Jordan announced immediate plans to drain 300 million cubic meters of water a year into the Red Sea, drain the seawater, and the Dead Sea sewer, although there were concerns that there was insufficient time to assess environmental impacts.

Environmental groups talk about man-made natural disasters as a result of the struggle for scarce water resources in the arid region. The collapsing site of En-Gedi, where many sinks form an old tourist attraction, is dangerous to enter and is often too dangerous for anyone to enter. Hundreds of sinkholes have been established in the area, which is popular with tourists.

The Dead Sea and the Jordanian and Israeli coasts, which are dotted with shallow water, provide evidence of a natural disaster. When the lake recedes, it retreats into freshwater rivers at the edge of the lake, which retreat into the lake itself. Freshwater dissolves the salt in the coastal surface, and when freshwater dissolves the salt, the earth collapses without warning.

Ten times more salt than the oceans of the world and more salt than Utah's largest salt lakes, the Dead Sea is rich in minerals. Every day, 7 million tons of water evaporate, but minerals remain behind, adding salt. Dead Sea Works, located on the southwest side of the lake, uses over 1,600 people daily to extract precious metals from the water.

The Dead Sea, also known as the Salt Sea, is a salt mound that runs east of the Jordan and Israel west. Its surface is 127 feet [427 m] above sea level and is one of the highest in the world.

With 3.42% salt in 2011, it is one of the world's most salty waters, with Lake Vanda in Antarctica, [35] Lake Assal in Djibouti, [348] Garabogazkol lagoon in the Caspian Sea, [35] [35], and hypersaline lakes in Lake McMurdo in arid valleys. Antarctic species such as Don Juan Pond [44].

The Dead Sea is between Israel and the Jordan and is part of the border between the two countries and is fed by the Jordan flowing northward into the lake. Endure natural flow that does not feed the river and its streams and the structure of the Dead Sea is determined by its balance between the amount of water entering the sea and the small amounts taken. The Dead Sea level is about 1,600 feet [430 m] above sea level and continues to drop by about three feet [1 m] a year.

The Dead Sea, composed of the same tectonic plates that formed the Syrian-African Rift Valley millions of years ago, has its own peculiarities and the human condition. Due to the decline in natural resources due to the evaporation of the strong desert sun, no water can be drawn from the original source of the Dead Sea, the Jordan. For thousands of years, people have been visiting the oceans to hear its supposed healing properties by swimming in its thick, floating waters, and talking about the sea back to Bible times.

This water is not only biblical but holy to millions of people around the world. The shallow water in front of the hotel is artificial and a result of the drought since the 1980s, when dams held by Israeli company D Dead Sea Works pumped water from the northern and southern parts of the lake until it evaporated to release minerals such as potash and bromide.

In addition, the southern basin was divided into piles of large salt-evaporating baskets, and by the 21st century, it was no longer a block of natural water ice. This disrupted the supply of water to the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, creating a vast, shallow ocean inland. The northern basin - the Dead Sea itself - retains its size, but the largest loss of water is on its shores, which enters the surrounding land.

The Dead Sea from the Jordan drops more than three feet [1 m] annually, creating ditches that dive into buildings and roads and leaving behind a rich coastline dependent on the tourism industry. Walking 10 minutes to the edge of the water now takes an hour on cracked, salty soil.

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Sita Dahal

Hello, I am Sita Dahal, I am an artist and love roaming around the globe.

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