Save The Dead Sea
To: Governments of the Dead Sea area
The Dead Sea, one of the wonders of the world, is commemorating 50 years of desiccation. For years the Dead Sea has been the object of systematic destruction by human activity enabled by the governments of the region and by corporations making their profit at the expense of the general public. The Dead Sea belongs to all of us: residents of Israel, Jordan and Palestine, as well as tourists and the surrounding wildlife.
Sign the petition to save the Dead Sea and to stop the extinction of the natural resource once and for all, to preserve it as more than a childhood memory.
Sign the petition to save the Dead Sea and to stop the extinction of the natural resource once and for all, to preserve it as more than a childhood memory.
We need 50000 signatures. So far 43221 have signed the petition
The problem
The Dead Sea is going through rapid destruction, most of the beaches are already closed for bathing, the water levels are continuing to fall, entire areas are closed due to sinkholes. All these endanger the surrounding communities, the local infrastructure and the tourism.
The Causes
- Negligent policy that solves one problem but creates another: closing the Degania Dam to save the Sea of Galilee stalled the flow of water to the Dead Sea. Today only a fraction of the water that used to flow in the past arrives at the Dead Sea.
- The mining process of drying the water for salt is drying out the northern lake, exposing the area to flooding and the hotels to collapse.
- Drought is one of the most devastating consequences of Climate Change. It reduces the flow of new waters into the sea.
The solution
The Dead Sea is in bad shape but there is still a chance to change this! We have solutions – we demand that the local governments take responsibility and rehabilitate the natural resource of the region:
- Invest resources in rehabilitation
- Reduce industrial use of the sea
- Renew a controlled flow of new waters into the sea