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    From x3@x@x.net to alt.history.what-if,alt.history.future on Sat Jul 4 11:10:44 2026
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    I am thinking it was just about two or so months ago.

    I read the Wikipedia article on the Dead Sea and noticed
    the rate it was dropping. Then I just divided the depth
    of the Dead Sea. It looked like the Dead Sea might dry
    up about 200 to 400 years from now.

    Of course the Dead Sea is pretty much saturated salt
    solution, and when the Jordon River makes contact with
    and mixes with the salt the water becomes less valuable
    because of the salt, even less so possibly than wastewater.
    Hence the dropping.

    The what-if would involve some type of irrigation of
    the Jordan River done centuries earlier that would
    have made the Dead Sea be entirely evaporated by
    the present. Is that even remotely feasible or is
    it entirely feasible involving some scenarios with
    irrigation and the Jordan River?

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  • From The Horny Goat@lcraver@home.ca to alt.history.what-if on Mon Jul 6 18:49:48 2026
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    On Sat, 4 Jul 2026 11:10:44 -0700, x3 <x@x.net> wrote:


    The what-if would involve some type of irrigation of
    the Jordan River done centuries earlier that would
    have made the Dead Sea be entirely evaporated by
    the present. Is that even remotely feasible or is
    it entirely feasible involving some scenarios with
    irrigation and the Jordan River?

    Sure - pretty much everywhere in the Dead Sea S of that section of
    land jutting out from the Jordanian side (sorry - couldn't find the
    name of it from Google maps) was dry land in the period pre-1000 BC
    (the story of Abraham was supposed to have occured roughly 1800-2200
    BC) and it is believed the Biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were
    located there and subsequently flooded to produce the current
    shoreline. That section is fairly shallow and there's no particular
    reason the sea could have the shoreline it once had. (Which would of
    course give Israel and Jordan something to argue about again....)
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