Research investigates causes of sea level falls in Dead Sea

[rangerrebew]

Research investigates causes of sea level falls in Dead Sea
June 23, 2017 by Alan Williams


The causes of falling sea levels in the Dead Sea, which have significant impacts on the environment and the economy, are to be investigated in new research led by the University of Plymouth.

Academics from the Plymouth Ocean Forecasting Centre have secured funding from the British Council to gain a better understanding of what is causing levels to fall by around one metre every year.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-sea-falls-dead.html#jCp

[Joe Wooten]

I'll bet it is from both Israel and Jordan increasing their draws of water from the river and the Lake of Galilee.

[EC]

It's the ageing hippies.

They keep digging out the Dead Sea salts to use in their quack nostrums and lowering the sea bed.

[thackney]

https://www.ft.com/content/c9a188c4-bad1-11e6-8b45-b8b81dd5d080?mhq5j=e3

...divert water from the Red Sea, turn some of it into drinking water and pipe the rest north into the Dead Sea. The pipeline will start at Aqaba, the Jordanian port, where a desalination plant will be built. It will run through Jordan, generating hydroelectric power from its final stretch when it plunges several hundred metres below sea level into the Dead Sea, the world’s lowest land elevation....

Satellite image showing the shrinking of the Dead Sea between 1972 (left) and 2011 (right) © NASA

[thackney]

I'll bet it is from both Israel and Jordan increasing their draws of water from the river and the Lake of Galilee.

https://www.ft.com/content/c9a188c4-bad1-11e6-8b45-b8b81dd5d080?mhq5j=e3

According to environmentalists, about two-thirds of the drop in the Dead Sea’s water level is due to the companies and farms that divert water from the Jordan river in Israel, Jordan and Syria. The remaining 30-40 per cent is caused by the large mining companies in Israel and Jordan that steer its southern waters into evaporation ponds to make potash and bromine. The Dead Sea has lost more than a third of its surface over the past two decades.

[EC]

Ha! Well what do you know? @Joe Wooten  - looks like your serious post and my half jesting one were both right.   

[Joe Wooten]

Ha! Well what do you know? @Joe Wooten  - looks like your serious post and my half jesting one were both right.   

 

[Restored]

We could be witnessing the death of the Dead Sea.

[thackney]

We could be witnessing the death of the Dead Sea.

The Sea level has been falling since they started taking measurements in the late 1920s.