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The Red Sea–Dead Sea Conveyance (RSDSC), sometimes called the Two Seas Canal, was a planned pipeline to run from the coastal city of Aqaba by the Red Sea to the Lisan area in the Dead Sea. Its abandonment was reported in June 2021. [1] It was to provide potable water to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories, bringing water with a ...
This is a plan to convey seawater from the Red Sea near Aqaba to the Dead Sea. Water would be desalinated along the route to provide fresh water to Jordan, with the brine discharge sent to the Dead Sea for replenishment. Israel has expressed its support and will likely benefit from some of the water delivery to its Negev region. [76] [77]
The Wadi Mujib (Arabic: وادي الموجب, romanized: Wādī al-Mūjib), also known as Arnon Stream (Hebrew: נַחַל ארנון [1]), is a river in Jordan. The river empties into the Dead Sea circa 420 metres (1,380 ft) below sea level. [2] In ancient times, the river served as the northern boundary of the kingdom of Moab. [3]
Seawater will be extracted from the Red Sea and conveyed via intake pipelines to a desalination plant in Aqaba. The purified water will be pumped via pipeline to Amman and points north. The effluent brine will also be piped north via a discharge pipeline and deposited into the Dead Sea, whose levels have been falling in recent years. [6]
Athletes and eco-activists swam across the Dead Sea on Tuesday, the first people to cross a body of water so salty that it poisons anyone who drinks it.
In the past, one of the main water resources in Jordan was the Jordan River, with a flow of 1.3 billion m 3 per year (BCM/yr). However, after Israel built the National Water Carrier in 1953 and diverted water from the Sea of Galilee to Israel's coastal plains and southern desert, the flow of the Lower Jordan River dropped significantly.
The stream originates on the crest of the Notza Ridge, which forms the watershed divide between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea, and from which all streams in the Arava desert flow either north to the Dead Sea or south to the Red Sea. The stream's prominent tributaries include: Nahal Paran, Nahal Barak, Nahal Tzin, Nahal Tzafit, and Nahal Nekorot. [1]
The proposed Red Sea-Dead Sea Canal is a multibillion-dollar plan to build a canal from the Red Sea to the slowly evaporating Dead Sea. The project also incorporates the construction of a desalination plant. It is expected to provide Jordan with 500 million cubic metres of water annually.