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“Because the surface of the Dead Sea is more than 400 meters below sea level, it is a drainage basin for water from all over Israel and beyond.”

Well, it ought to be a real goldmine, then.

[SunkenCiv]

another postworthy topic:

Science devises new method to sort Dead Sea Scrolls (Feature)
By Jean-Baptiste Piggin Nov 15, 2010, 1:06 GMT
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/features/article_1598963.php

[bigheadfred]

"People talk about how we are in the midst of several years of a dry spell now and say it must be coming to an end. Well, there have been dry spells of hundreds of years, so maybe we shouldn¹t be so sure," Ben-Avraham said. We have noticed that climate events have come in clusters, he added.

Wonder is any of those clusters resemble the climate cluster-ummm...event Al Gore and his buddies have created?