Published: 14 February 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
SOME DANGERS ARE BEAUTIFUL, especially from above. Ofer Vaknin's drone photography displays the accumulation of salt along the Dead Sea’s southern edge, between the hotels in Ein Bokek and the Dead Sea’s industrial zone. This is not the natural shoreline of the lake, but that of an artificial pool that serves the area's factories.
The sea level in the northern part of the sea drops by one metre every year, since no water flows in through the Jordan River and the various industrial facilities pump out water for their use. But in the southern basin, the problem is exactly the opposite: the sea level is rising, threatening to flood hotels and the coastal Route 90.
PHOTO ESSAY: The drop-dead beauty of the Dead Sea environmental disaster (Haaretz)
Photo: Dead Sea level is rising, threatening hotels and roads (Ofer Vaknin)
