Sea
Dead Sea
The most saline large water body in the world and the lowest land elevation on Earth. It is shrinking rapidly because the Jordan River, its only significant inflow, is now almost entirely abstracted upstream.
Key facts
- Salinity
- approximately 340 g/l — roughly ten times seawater
- Surface elevation
- over 430 m below sea level and falling
- Rate of level fall
- Around a metre per year
- Principal cause
- Diversion of Jordan River inflow and mineral extraction
Relationships
- Located in: Israel
Related intelligence
Sources
- World Wildlife Fund / McGill University — HydroSHEDS / HydroRIVERS / HydroLAKES / HydroBASINS. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Global Water System Project — Global Reservoir and Dam Database. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Peer-reviewed scientific literature — Open-access hydrology, water chemistry and water use research. Public but restricted · Publisher terms — public access, reuse not clearly granted