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Dead Sea Red Sea Pipeline

By admin | Published: December 10, 2013

The Dead Sea has been shrinking by a 1 meter drop every year. Resorts that use to be on the beach now have to bus guests to the shore. Israel, Jordan and Palestine have signed an agreement to pump water through a 110 mile pipeline from the Red Sea.

“The inflow of water from the Red Sea will slow the drying up of the Dead Sea,” said the Israeli government.

The Guardian newspaper reported, “Under the agreement, 200 million cubic metres of water will be pumped from the Red Sea a year. Half will be desalinated at a new plant in Aqaba, at the northern tip of the Red Sea, and the rest will be piped to the Dead Sea to help replenish its waters, which are shrinking by a metre each year.”

Israel’s energy and infrastructure minister, Silvan Shalom, said it was “a historic agreement that realises a dream of many years… [and] is of the highest diplomatic, economic, environmental and strategic importance.”

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