Next year, Jordan will start digging a channel from the Red sea to the Dead Sea. Initially conceived as a joint project with Israel, the channel would bring water to the Dead Sea at a time when Jordanians and Palestinians are over-pumping the Jordan River, which normally feeds the Dead Sea.
On the Israeli side, the project is being lobbied for by Shimon Peres, whose fund will handle the financing.
The mega-project spells an ecological catastrophe for the Dead Sea. Red Sea waters, rich with fauna, will turn dead when entering the salty Dead Sea, and contaminate its basin.
The Israeli Ecological Fund should consider this issue as soon as possible as well as other ecological organizations from all over the world because both seas are very important for the well-being of the planet.The Israeli Ecological Fund has waired too long already and it’s high time it interfered.
Judge the slave and the widow judge the orphan. These words should be applied not only to people but to any form of life, too.