Dead Sea to receive water from Red Sea to save it from drying up

The Telegraph ^ | 12/26/2008 | Tim Butcher at the Dead Sea

[cripplecreek]

Dead sea bailout. Or is that a bail in?

I’m so confused.

[hinckley buzzard]

Overuse by farmers of water from the Jordan River, the only major influx into the Dead Sea, and climate change mean the level of the Dead Sea plunges by about three feet every year.

Simple f*ers just can't help themselves can they...

[Right Brother]

I guess when it comes to water allocation....

Better Dead than Red.

[patton]

AAAAAAAARGH! IT is 26 MILES FROM THE MED!

[whipitgood]

Looks like they finally figured out a way to deal with rising sea levels from ‘global warming’.

[Uncle George]

Better DEAD than RED.

[Bon mots]

Global Drying?

[seowulf]

The new water is needed to avoid the complete disappearance of the Dead Sea, an event the World Bank warns would represent "an environmental calamity".

Exactly what environmental calamity would that be? The Dead Sea is already...DEAD.

In other news Seattle refuses to use salt on icy roads because of the damage salt runoff might do to the Puget Sound that just happens to be saltwater.

[Twotone]

No doubt the Obama administration will provide funding to keep canal diggers in their jobs. /sarc

[Tax-chick]

It would affect tourism revenue.

[Paleo Conservative]

http://american.edu/ted/deadsea.htm

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Five MILLION tons of water, 1300 foot head... There is a MASSIVE hydro potential there! Definitely should use that power to desalinate the incoming water for irrigation purposes!

[Finalapproach29er]

Better dead than red!

Couldn’t resist.

[dljordan]

” Exactly what environmental calamity would that be? The Dead Sea is already...DEAD.”

And exactly WHY is the “World Bank” involved?

[BigFinn]

This story is quite amazing as the Bible says that the Dead Sea will live again. But not from the Red Sea but from the waters that come from underneath the Temple Mount.

Ezekiel 47:8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

[hoosierham]

Channel some water from the Med not the Red,into the Dead.
Desalinate for agriculture using hydro plants.Farmers can keep using Jordan water,too.

[Mike Darancette]

The Dead Sea could be saved from drying up under a groundbreaking plan to flood millions of gallons of seawater in from the Red Sea more than 110 miles away.

This also has the upside of lowering sea levels. In fact there a many ;ow areas which could take sea water.

[aumrl]

OBAMA will solve unemployment by creating the world’s largest bucket brigade