Drowning Danger in the Dead Sea
Israel raises water warning awareness
Low water levels with outdated warning signs
Crossing the Dead Sea is now easier than crossing the Red Sea
Swimming lessons no longer required at the Dead part of the Dead Sea  The Dead Sea is shrinking at a record rate, prompting calls for Israel and Jordan to stop fertilizer makers from siphoning so much of the water whose restorative powers have attracted visitors since biblical times. Hundreds of sinkholes are opening up on its shores - on the Israeli and Jordanian coasts, evidence of a pending environmental catastrophe. The ancient salt sea is shrinking, and as it recedes, the fresh water aquifers along the perimeter of the lake are receding along with it. As this fresh water diffuses into salt deposits beneath the surface of the shoreline, the water slowly dissolves the deposits until the earth above collapses without warning. More than 1,000 sinkholes have appeared in the past 15 years. In that time, sinkholes have swallowed a portion of road, date-palm fields and several buildings on the sea’s northwest coast. Environmental experts believe that hotels along the shore are also in danger. Water rusts pipes. - WC Fields Friendship is a plant we must often water. - German Proverb Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea. - Janet Clarkson You never miss the water till the well has run dry. - Irish Proverb People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water. - Charles Bukowski Drown in a vat of whiskey? Oh death, where is thy sting? - WC Fields You will never get lessons on swimming from a drowning man. - Unknown Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. - Josh Billings Ice Water? Get some Onions - that'll make your eyes water! - Groucho Marx Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water. - WC Fields Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. - Unknown You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. - English Proverb Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. - Malayan Proverb If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day. - Molly Ivins You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. - WC Fields I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. - WC Fields When in doubt as to the applicability of a disinfectant, use soap and water. - Martin H. Fischer I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it. - Joan Rivers Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. - Swedish Proverb People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. - Ann Landers Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. - Louis L'Amour Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. - WC Fields When ya go out there in the water and ya start crossing your longirudes and lassitudes. - Archie Bunker The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. - Ernest Hemingway You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook. - Suzanne Fields Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. - Zen Buddhist Saying I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim. - Frida Kahlo If NASA really wants to find water on Mars, they should just send me there to hit a golf ball. - Gene Jaster Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space. - Brian Skerry I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy. - Bhagavad Gita I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky. - Mark Nepo Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face. - Manoj Arora After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. - Arthur Golden Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. - Unknown Not all chemicals are bad. Without hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. - Dave Barry From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people, so that they can get on with their jobs. - Robert Townsend One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine... Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. - William Osler see also Scenery, Sign & Stress Sections Arab Barking Lot Dead Sea Burgers Dead Sea Fish No Swimming Outback Waterhole Swimming in the Dead Sea You Got Kicked Out Of The Restaurant
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