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Not since Moses parted its waters, has anybody fucked with the Red Sea like this. Our friends at “_Treehugger.com_”:http://treehugger.com/ report on the Israeli government’s “plan to to build a 200 kilometer channel”:http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/how_to_save_the.php between the Red and Dead Seas. According to “_The Economist_”:http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8861571 , the Jordan River is currently supplying the Dead Sea with one-twentieth of the water that it did just a decade ago and as a result, its surface levels have been dropping approximately one meter per year. _Treehugger_ suggests that the audacious plan will threaten the fragile ecosystems surrounding the Dead Sea region.

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Josh became an editor-at-large after accruing exorbitant legal fees as the publisher of Heeb in his efforts to trademark the word "irreverent." Follow him on Twitter @joshuaneuman.

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