03.08.2011                      03.Aw-Elul, 5771

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Regional Dead Sea preservation policy may not tackle area's larger issues

It is not yet clear whether the document will apply to proposed solutions for one of the area's biggest problems: the threat that Dead Sea Works' evaporation pools will flood the hotels on the sea's shoreline.

After many delays, the National Planning and Building Council finally approved a policy for the Dead Sea region that, for the first time, lays down guidelines on how to combine landscape preservation with the area's industrial and tourism enterprises.
But it is not yet clear whether the document will apply to proposed solutions for one of the area's biggest problems: the threat that Dead Sea Works' evaporation pools will flood the hotels on the sea's shoreline….