Killing the Dead Sea
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Why has the Dead Sea shrunk more than 40% in the last 100 years? Can it be saved? Or have we passed the point of no return? And what do regional politics have to do with the shrinking (or saving) of the 'Lowest Place on Earth'?
Carrie and Alize speak with the Director of the Center for Transboundary Water Management at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies about why the Dead Sea is drying up, what can save it, and what this all has to do with the epidemic of sink holes along Rt. 90.
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