This is a project under serious consideration that will build a conduit between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea with the purpose of comabatting the fall in level of the Dead Sea.
So serious, in fact, that a $15m feasibility study was started earlier this year.
Another example of how rare common sense is these days.
You only need to look at who is for and who is against the idea. On the for side there are the policy makers and bureaucrats of the abutting countries, Israel, Palestine and Jordan. On the against side, everyone else including environmentalists, scientist and even represntatives of the mining industries in the area.
Not that it takes any kind of genius to spot that pumping 60 cubic metres per second from one body of water into another totally seperate body is going to cause all manner of ecological and environmental issues. Nor that building and maintaining a 180 km pipe to carry the water through hostile and earthquake prone terrain won’t also bring about a huge selection of problems.
$5Bn is the estimated cost. And we all know that figure will balloon, just like with all mega projects.
Anyway, take a look here for more information and marvel once more at the heads-in-the-sand approach governments around the world have to solving problems of their own making.
The proposed route
