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Experts say that at best, dramatic changes in the way natural resources are drawn from area may stop further decline, but restoration may be beyond hope
In the heyday of the Ein Gedi spa in the 1960s, holidaymakers could marinate in heated pools and then slip into the briny Dead Sea. Now the same beach is punctured by craters.
During the Ein Gedi spa's golden era in 1960s, visitors can relax in warmed baths before plunging into the salty Dead Sea; the very same coastline that is now dotted with sinkholes. The sinkholes can reach depths of up to 10 meters, which is proof of the ocean water's downsizing.
There are now thousands of sinkholes all around the shores of the Dead Sea, in Jordan, Israel and the West Bank resulting from human policy that decimates the flow of water into it