Aerial views of pumping station on the Lisan Peninsula (Lisan means "tongue" in Arabic), which separates the Dead Sea into two parts. The Arab Potash Company pumps Dead Sea water up (currently 27 meters, but Dead Sea is going down approx. 1 meter per year and the base level of the evaporation ponds is going up by approx. 30cm/year due to NaCl precipitation). The evaporation ponds of the Arab Potash Company form approximately 40% of the southern part of the Dead Sea. The pumps move an average of 9 cubic meters of Dead Sea water per second (max. capacity 16 cu.m./sec., on average 215 million cu. m./year).
The beige ground is formed from recently revealed lake sediments which are rapidly eroding from wind and the occasional rain (max 20cm/year).
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- STNMTZ_20080601_10813.tif
- Copyright
- ©2008 George Steinmetz
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- Contained in galleries
- Dead Sea
