The Dead Sea is drying up. So are Israel and Jordan. The solution: a canal from the Mediterranean or the Red Sea. All it takes is peace.
The Dead Sea is neither a sea nor altogether dead. It is a salt lake that straddles the border between Israel and Jordan, and a few species of bacteria and algae do survive in it. But the Dead Sea is dying. It is slowly drying up because its main source of water, the Jordan River, has been reduced to a trickle by thirsty humans. Israel diverts about half the river flow out of the Sea of Galilee (a freshwater lake traversed by the river) and, along with Jordan and Syria, takes smaller amounts from the Yarmuk River, a tributary of the Jordan. What’s left in the river by the time it terminates in the Dead Sea is not enough to replace what evaporates ...
