Israel's Dead Sea is, ironically, as old as life itself, is in a serious danger of drying. Hidden in the world's deepest valley and protected by majestic desert mountains, the Dead Sea is one important feature in a land of mysteries, miracles and biblical legends that we must see before it's too late. In another three decades, the evaporating Dead Sea could possibly become the dry sea.
The pier which used to lead directly to water, today it’s ending in the air. On the desert there are boards marking bathing beaches, although there isn’t a liter of water around . It is the lowest place on Earth- 1,300 feet below sea level -- it's closest to all the deep Earth's minerals and, most visibly, the Earth's salt and it still continues to shrink more each year, dropping a meter every century. Scientists are desperately looking for a solution to save it.
Scientists agreed that the reasons for drying of The Dead Sea are climatic changes and global warming as well as the use of Jordan waters for agricultural purposes.
One of the most seriously considered ideas for saving The Dead Sea concerns a construction of the canal that joins The Red Sea and The Dead Sea. Therefore, waters from the Red Sea would fill the drying surface of the dying sea. It’s hard to estimate whether it’s a good solution, however. Taking into account only goal is to raise the water level in the Dead Sea, the idea is certainly good. But no one knows how the investment would affect the surrounding ecosystem. Mixing the waters of two seas is spectacular, but the chemical composition of water in the Red Sea is quite different from the more saline one. Also, plenty of living beings would come with waters- although the vast majority of them wouldn’t live for long in a specific environment of the Dead Sea, but it’s really hard to tell how this experiment could be completed.
