Dead Sea on Death Bed The rapid depletion of the Dead Sea is an environmental atrocity. The reason atrocity is used in comparison with what is occurring to the Dead Sea is, because humans are the problem. The first dilemma and by far the greatest is the diversion of 90 percent of the Jordan River for usage in Israel, Jordan, and Syria. The subsequent problem is pollution and the development of hotels, spas, and solar evaporation …
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…and Egyptian mongooses are all facing extinction", writes Alys Latimer a student at Humber school of Media Studies. In the past 40 years, the water level of the Dead Sea has dropped by more than 262 feet. How much will the Dead Sea drop in the next 40 years? Will we be able to save it before it is too late? Only politicians and decision makers will be able to influence the final outcome of an ecological atrocity.