Dead Sea: Environmentalists Question Pipeline Rescue Plan

[unhappycamper]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/environmentalists-question-pipeline-rescue-plan-for-the-dead-sea-a-939681.html



An "historic" agreement between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians is supposed to save the shrinking Dead Sea. But some environmentalists believe the plan to pump water from the Red Sea could do the salt lake more harm than good.

Dead Sea: Environmentalists Question Pipeline Rescue Plan
By Julia Amalia Heyer and Samiha Shafy
December 19, 2013 – 04:55 PM

Even as it shrinks in size, the Dead Sea, a turquoise blue shimmering salt lake, remains a mystical place. Boat jetties jut out into nothingness, abandoned as the water has retreated further and further; each year the level dropping by a meter. The Dead Sea is dwindling to nothing, deprived of water by humans.

Where there once was water, there is now a crumbling coastline, which is already riddled with deep craters that can open up suddenly. Nonetheless, the lake's withered beauty still attracts many to its shores.

The only question is, for how long?

The Dead Sea is now set to be saved -- but the plans of its self-appointed savior may actually turn out to be more like euthanasia.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Leave it the hell alone, or undo what humans have already done to cause this and then leave it alone

Even as it shrinks in size, the Dead Sea, a turquoise blue shimmering salt lake, remains a mystical place. Boat jetties jut out into nothingness, abandoned as the water has retreated further and further; each year the level dropping by a meter. The Dead Sea is dwindling to nothing, deprived of water by humans.

I knew that before even reading the article.

We can't touch anything without screwing it up.