The Red Sea - Dead Sea Canal Project
26 03 2008I find the whole project just fascinating. Monsters and Critics reports
Two European firms have won a tender to carry out a feasibility study and an environmental appraisal for the proposed multi-billion-dollar Red Sea-Dead Sea canal, Jordan Valley Authority Secretary General Musa Jamaini said Sunday. … The Red Sea-Dead Sea Canal project is part of international efforts aimed at saving the Dead Sea, which has been dropping at the rate of one metre per year, largely due to the diversion of water from River Jordan for agricultural and industrial use.
This will certainly change the character of the Dead Sea if it’s carried out, won’t it. So see the Dead Sea while you still can- before it disappears or becomes something other than what it is.
but don’t fill it up too much… would hate to lose the ‘major trade thoroughfare’ from qumran to bustling ‘en gedi along the shore….
this is a fascinating project though. it’s a question of which environmental change causes more impact: the change of salinity of the dead sea or the loss of the dead sea.