A challenging architecture is on the way to save the Dead Sea from environmental damage. To rescue the famous and huge money-generating tourist spot, esteemed British architect Lord Foster will be carve a canal through the Sinai desert that would transfer water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea.
Expected to cost about $3 billion, a sequence of canals would be used to channel seawater through the arid Arava Valley in southern Israel and Jordan to the salt lake at the lowest point on the Earth’s surface — 415 meters below sea level.
Though this plan would be a great relief to various tourist industries, some environmentalists are against it, as they believe that this mixing of water could be dangerous, because of the huge difference in their chemical make-ups.
