Article: The Level of the Dead Sea Keeps on Decreasing.

By Ha'aretz

A stroll along the Dead Sea's beaches may be the most depressing Passover trip you could take. Everywhere around this international asset there are signs of impending ecological doom, so you better hurry and visit now. By the time your children have grown up, there may be nothing to see, and no sea to float in.

The Dead Sea, the lowest place in the world, has been drying up swiftly in the recent decades - every year the water level goes down by an average of 1.2 meters (nearly four feet). In certain places, the water has receded two kilometers (1.25 miles) or more from the beach since the 1960s. Its southern panhandle is totally dry.

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