14 sad photos of how the Dead Sea disappears (15 photos)

Perhaps it will soon disappear forever: the Dead Sea becomes less and less every year. Scientists have long sounded the alarm, but so far It is very difficult to restore this unique reservoir.





Every year the blue water recedes a meter from its shores, leaving behind an amazing lunar landscape of white salt. Gone a little more than half a century, and during this time the sea has decreased by a third. The reservoir is fed only by the Jordan River, as well as several small rivers, which create more backwaters and swamps along the coast.

The landscape here is amazing, where turquoise water merges with sand, layers of salt crunching underfoot, and little blue backwaters. And add to this amazing beauty karst failures, who also look impressive, although they are witnesses impending environmental catastrophe.

Funnels on the shore appeared due to a drop in the level of the Dead Sea: in a couple of years they will no longer be filled with water



The resort that was destroyed due to failures and is now closed





Statues of salt crystals on the shore: once they were under water



Salt patterns on the surface, where the sea is rapidly receding from the shore



The picturesque coastline of the Ein Gedi nature reserve



The southern part of the Dead Sea dried up, and then there were huge failures



A huge sign installed in the Israeli resort of Neve Zohar



Indented coast resembling hills and covered with mineral deposits



Man washes off Dead Sea salt after swimming



Some unreal landscape of the coast



A dry stretch of sea that has turned into a valley, and the river that crosses it



Abandoned parking lot of one of the non-existent resorts



A collapsed palm grove and mountain goats at a meal



People walk on a bridge made of salt, which appeared due to shoaling.