A feasibility study for Dead Seas- Red Sea channel
Jordan-Israel, Economics, 5/23/2005

It was announced on the sideline of the economic forum in Jordan, an official agreement was finalized on May 9th on the feasibility study for the project to construct "Bahrain channel " which would link the Red Sea to the Dead Sea in order to avoid the Dead Sea becoming a dry lake as it continuously loose water.

The secretary of the Jordan Valley authority Zafer al-Alem said that the "project's feasibility study will cost USD 15 million and will be for two years at the supervision of the World Bank and the donor states."

Al-Alem said that the study will take into account the ecological, social and economic impacts to construct the canal which will be of 200 km Length from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea and will be on the Jordanian side of the border.

The minister of infrastructure in the Israeli government Benjamin Bin Aliazer said "our aim is to help in halting the decrease in water level of the Dead Sea, the Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli authorities will enjoy potable waters and the area will be fertile."

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