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- vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor, not a hydrologist!
- vtlunchbox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3if only captain planet was around
- Qenton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Just have an "accident" like California did in 1905. That will fix the problem right up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea - jwpowless, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4It is probable that the Dead Sea will never entirely dry up. It will shrink over the next 150 years or so until the remaining water is so supersaturated with salt that evaporation stops.
There would not be a problem with the Dead Sea if the Jordan River were not being used as a sewer. 2000+ years of that tend to take their toll... - dollyknot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This has long been thought a good idea, some background here.
http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/ted/deadsea.htm
The middle east could solve its problems with engineering instead of guns and other weapons. They fight over land that is mainly desert. The obvious solution is just add water, with the result being much more usable land for everybody. - starguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1polution of water sources is a sad situation
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1From an environmental point of view, and ignoring that parts of the dead sea coast is quite pretty, and birds, which I know nothing about, I see three problems: the first and obvious is that there's actually life in the dead sea. Mainly an unique assemblage of bacteria, but there's a couple of small invertebrates as well. The next one is that there's an endemic fish in small groundwater-fed pools around the shoreline which are very salty but not as salty as the dead sea itself - for you US guys it's sortof like a desert pupfish. This fish is critically endangered; realistically speaking it's probably a lost cause.
Finally there's actually several endemic species of cichlid (Tristramella) in the Jordan river itself and associated lakes - these were the fish Jesus and his disciples fished, and the fish of "two loaves and five fish" fame.
One of the cichlid species went extinct recently, the two remaining are at the very least in serious trouble as more and more water is removed for irrigation.
Personally I'd say the river Jordan and its associated lakes are a considerably higher priority for protection than the dead sea itself. - boysranch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wish they could come up with a solution to saving the dead sea as soon as possible. This year has seen too many threats to nature..I wish humankind could manage to solve nature's problems first. There's no harmony in the world today. Nature and man are both at war. Mankind owes nature too much and only it can save nature now, since it was man who destroyed the beauty of nature. http://www.silveradoboysranch.com/
- TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wrong place.
- froman98, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I kind of chuckled at this because they're trying to save the DEAD sea. It's dead folks.
It would be nice if they could save it because that's the one spot where I don't get sunburned! hahaha - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2"Eli Raz, an Israeli geologist, said that pumping lighter seawater into the Dead Sea could kill its delicate micro- organisms and harm its appeal for tourists, who float in its mineral-rich waters."
How can pumping saline, mineral rich ocean waters do harm to the hypersaline Dead Sea? The Dead Sea lies along a transform fault zone so there is probably a Red Sea contribution anyway. It seems like a good solution. Swimmers will still float like corks. - starguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Title of this should have been "Breathing new life into the Dead Sea"...
- kingpincwh, on 10/12/2007, -14/+12It's dead, Jim.
- AlexWills, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0@ Mutaz
In the days before Global Warming (beginning of time - 1970's) we didn't have extreme droughts, right? - PLUMCRAZY, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0They should let it dry up.
Then they will have some beautiful salt-flats to race their cars on.
Can you say Land Speed Record? - Camembert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This is a much needed project no matter what the ecological consequence on the Jordan River. Matter of fact, the Jordan River is just as dead as the Dead Sea. The Jordinians badly need water to sustain their development. Water is in such short supply that residents of Amman only get water delivered to them once a week.
This project seems like a great way to sustainably develop the region and supply the Jordinians with badly needed water and also "green energy". The water coming from the Red Sea will in fact drive turbines on its way down to the lowest point on Earth : the Dead Sea. - Mutaz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I think its time to change the name of Global Warming to Global Environment Disintegration or GED...when we talk about nuclear waste, air and water pollution, we are talking about more than just Warming.
- neave, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Who thinks this is (in part) down to global warming then?
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -13/+5edit: ok, screw it. bury.
in fact just bury anyone that comments to this. - aprigliano, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2I agree 100% with simpleid.
- Winters, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5Naaaw, you got it all wrong.
"You can't kill what's already dead."
There ya go. - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -16/+7It's too late, she's already dead!
- TalonHawk, on 10/12/2007, -12/+0For some reason it makes me think of the old joke of the ocean being salty because of all the whale semen.
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