Article: Roundup: As Jordan pushes ahead with plans to save Dead Sea, environmentalists urge caution

Roundup: As Jordan pushes ahead with plans to save Dead Sea, environmentalists urge caution Roundup: As Jordan pushes ahead with plans to save Dead Sea, environmentalists urge caution

by Mohammad Ghazal

AMMAN, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- With both water and time running out, Jordan is aggressively pursuing a massive international water project to save the Dead Sea and provide the Kingdom with much needed water, while some environmental experts have labeled the scheme as "risky."

Environmentalists are casting doubt over the feasibility of the proposed Red-Dead canal project, which seeks to channel water from the Red Sea to the rapidly-shrinking Dead Sea, saying that it may do more harm than good.

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