Arab–Israeli peace projects regional problems of acute shortage of clean fresh water in Jordan, and the rapid contraction of the Dead Sea. A new desalination plant to be built near the Jordanian tourist resort of Aqaba would convert salt water from the Red Sea into fresh water for use in southern Israel and southern Jordan; each region would get eight billion to 13 billion gallons a year. This process would produces about as much brine as a waste product; the brine would be piped more than 100 miles to help replenish the Dead Sea, already known for its high salt content. This would
Brine pool artificial earthworks and drainage structures to separate a body of water into a highly concentrated brine pool and a much less saline zone. Although this delays a body of water becoming entirely inhospitable to wildlife that cannot tolerate high levels of salinity, it does not remove dissolved salts and minerals from the local environment. Brine pool A brine pool is a large area of brine on the ocean basin. These pools are bodies of water that have a salinity four to eight times greater than the surrounding ocean. For deep-sea brine pools, the source of the salt is the dissolution