water view No. 8
by George Steinmetz - © Corbis. All Rights Reserved. - © George Steinmetz/Corbis
Dead Sea
Israel --- Aerial views of earthen dikes separating salt evaporation ponds along the Israeli shore of the south lake of the Dead Sea, directly adjacent to the Jordanian border. Salt water here is ten times as salty as sea water. The flow rate from pond to pond is controlled to precipitate out all of the Sodium Chloride (NaCl, or table salt) from the Dead Sea water which is pumped up to them from the north lake. The floor of these primary evaporation pans is going up by approx. 20cm/year due to NaCl salt --- Image by © George Steinmetz/Corbis