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Mid-East governments sign Red Sea-to-Dead Sea water deal

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Dead Sea The surface of the Dead Sea is falling by about a metre a year
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Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority have signed a water sharing pact aimed at one day replenishing the rapidly drying Dead Sea.

The agreement will build a pipeline to carry brine from a desalination plant at the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, while providing drinking water to the region.

The Dead Sea is dropping by as much as 1m (3.3ft) a year as the River Jordan is depleted for use in irrigation.

But critics fear the plan's impact on the Dead Sea's fragile ecosystem.

Such a project has been under discussion for years.

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Water Woes: Vast US Aquifer Is Being Tapped Out

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Denise Chow, Aug 26, 2013
An irrigation system sprays water on a cornfield. Credit: Kansas State University Photo Services
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Nearly 70 percent of the groundwater stored in parts of the United States' High Plains Aquifer — a vast underground reservoir that stretches through eight states, from South Dakota to Texas, and supplies 30 percent of the nation's irrigated groundwater — could be used up within 50 years, unless current water use is reduced, a new study finds.

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