The waters of the Dead Seadescend at the dizzying rate of one meter per year, which could make it disappear in just four decades, according to some experts. However, others predict that it will never cease to exist, thanks to contributions from groundwater, althoughwill shrink to just 30 percent of the 625 square kilometerscurrently occupying. For now, the deterioration in recent decades has made the northern and southern parts of the great saline lake completely disconnected.
The companies responsible for the ponds multiply the problems of thissaline lake unmatched on the planet. Not only do they extract potassium and other minerals, reducing their concentration, but they use drying pools for this, a very water-intensive technique that forces them to remove the liquid from the northern part of the lake. In addition, they do not clean the sediment that remains deposited at the bottom of the ponds, which increases its level by twenty centimeters each year.
Friends of the earth,Save Our Seaand other organizations that fight to conserve the lake consider that the most important thing is to rehabilitate the Jordan River and return part of its flow, in addition to “forcing polluting companies to clean up what they have polluted and demanding that they use less harmful extraction methods “. In addition, if the UNESCO declares the place as a National Heritage of Humanity, joint management plans would be put in place.
