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The
Sinking Sea
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It’s the lowest
place on earth. A sea in the middle of a desert. Fed by the waters of the
Jordan River, nestled on the borders of Israel, Jordan and the West Bank, the
Dead Sea has supported life and provided spiritual healing for millennia. But today the
Dead Sea is disappearing, its waterline receding year by year. And the fight
over this diminishing resource is fuelling tensions between Palestinians and
Israelis. In a visually
stunning story, correspondent Eric Tlozek travels
through this ancient land to unravel the mysteries of this vanishing sea. Upstream in the
Jordan Valley, the waters which feed into the Dead Sea have been diverted for
agriculture and now there’s not enough to go around. Zeyad, whose family
lives in the Jordan Valley, says Palestinian farmers aren’t
getting their fair share of water. “They have a very big shortage of water. The water allocated for this
village actually is less than 50% of the needed water.” David, an
Israeli farmer, says the Jewish settlers have used the water well, making an
arid land productive and fertile. “When we came to
the Jordan Valley, we found a desert,” says David, a spokesperson for Jewish settlers in the West
Bank. “Nothing was growing here. So now the Jordan Valley is green.” Downstream, as a result of less water, the landscape around the Dead
Sea is being dramatically transformed and is collapsing in on itself. It’s
creating a strange phenomenon - ‘sinkholes’. Highways which
once teemed with traffic are now buckled and broken. Holiday resorts which
once hosted families are abandoned and ruined. “It’s a
spectacular landscape that developed in a few years,” says an Israeli government geologist. Meanwhile, the
faithful still believe in the waters’ healing powers even though the water
they bless now comes from sewage pipes. “Once the water
of the river is blessed…anyone that has any kind of pain or any kind of bad
feelings he can wash himself with this water and he can be healed,” says an Armenian Orthodox priest. There’s debate
about schemes which could halt the sea’s decline but there’s little political
will. “Who will pay
the price for this water?” asks one
geologist. This is an epic
journey through a land with a rich history, a troubled present and an
uncertain future. “If our children
will say that they wanted to save it, they can't even do it because it's too
late. Everything that's happening here, it's because of us,” says Carmit, an Israeli hydrologist. |
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Dead
Sea sunrise/GVs |
Music |
00:00 |
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ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: The
lowest place on earth, the Dead Sea, is slipping away. It’s been the site of dramatic biblical stories, and the area is still
contested today. |
00:06 |
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DAVID ELHAYANI: This is the promised land by God to the Jewish. |
00:20 |
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ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: For millennia treasured for its healing powers. |
00:25 |
Dead
Sea tourists |
YOUNG MAN: I have skin
issues, and the sea, when you’re in it for a couple
of hours it almost takes everything away. |
0029 |
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WOMAN: You're floating, it
feels wonderful. |
00:35 |
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ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: Modern day pilgrims still come to bathe in the salty,
mineral rich waters. |
00:39 |
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MAN: Every Sunday we’re
coming here, with company. |
00:46 |
Aerial
over Dead Sea /Carmit standing on shore |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: But this natural wonder is vanishing at an alarming rate. CARMIT: This is a symbol of what man can do the
nature, without even knowing that he’s doing it. |
00:50 |
Sinkhole
in road |
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01:04 |
Israeli-Palestinian
conflict |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: At the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the
land and its diminishing water. ZEYAD FUQAHA: This is a crisis, this is
unacceptable for us. |
01:09 |
Eric
with Ittai and Gidon |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: In a divided region, the solutions are disputed and costly. |
01:19 |
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ITTAI: Who will pay the price for this water? |
01:24 |
Aerial
over sea and sinkholes. |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: It might take a modern day miracle
to save the Dead Sea. |
01:27 |
TITLE:
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Music
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01:35 |
Satellite
map showing location of Dead Sea |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: The Dead Sea is surrounded by Jordan, Israel
and the West Bank. It’s
fed by waters of the River Jordan. |
01:42 |
En
Gedi GVs |
This
used to be the En Gedi beachside resort. Families and tourists would
stop here to enjoy the sparkling waters. |
01:58 |
Eric
walks with Carmit at En Gedi to sinkhole |
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02:16 |
Super: |
Now, we’re walking in to a highly dangerous site, off limits to the public. |
02:19 |
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"You
can really see it there. Look" CARMIT: "Yep." |
02:26 |
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That
used to be Route 90, which was the main highway in Israel, and you can see
what is the situation now. A few sinkholes at the
main road and also some on the right and on the left
of this road, and now there is no way to use it. ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: And this was only
five years ago? CARMIT: Yep. ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: Five years ago there were trucks
coming along here, buses? CARMIT:
And I think that more than six months people was driving here
and they were holes underneath it. |
02:31 |
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ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: So it was actually hollow? CARMIT: Yeah, like a sponge. |
03:08 |
Sinkholes |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: Geologist Carmit Ish Shalom lived
here for a decade, studying a mysterious phenomenon - sinkholes. "This
area is the first area where the sinkholes caused a big problem?" |
03:13 |
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CARMIT: Yeah, here, near the beach. That was the
first sinkholes that we found. |
03:26 |
Sinkhole
in holiday park |
ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: This
former holiday park was abandoned when sections of it started disappearing
into the ground. CARMIT: At the end of the '80s, |
03:33 |
Carmit
interview at sinkhole |
they found here the first
sinkhole and the resort was just closed immediately. |
03:43 |
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ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: And how do you feel when you see this? CARMIT: It’s really scary
to think that children could run here on top of nothing. And that was also
the main income source of En Gedi
and they can’t use it anymore. |
03:50 |
Carmit
at Dead Sea shore |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: As the Dead Sea continues to shrink, Carmit Ish Shalom knows more and more sinkholes will come. |
04:12 |
GFX
3D animation, sinkholes |
When
the salty water of the Dead Sea recedes, it leaves a thick underground layer
of salt. Winter floods
rush down from the mountains. The
fresh water saturates and dissolves that salt and huge underground caverns
form. When they eventually collapse, sinkholes appear. |
04:23 |
Carmit |
CARMIT: There are more than
6,000 different sinkholes in the Israeli side. |
04:53 |
Abandoned
En Gedi resort |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: The resort of En Gedi shows how
far and how fast the waters have receded. People used to stop here for a
swim, but now the water is hundreds of metres away and the facilities have
been destroyed by sinkholes. And they’re still
forming |
04:58 |
Carmit
and Eric at sinkhole. Carmit throws in stone |
CARMIT: It’s a new one. You want to hear it? ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter:
Sure. CARMIT: 1,2,3,4… It’s
still getting, 6 it might be. ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: That
is a long way down. |
05:25 |
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Eventually this area is going to collapse? CARMIT: Yeah. And the reason it’s
not collapsing (yet) is because we have lots of asphalt here and it’s holding
it. |
05:41 |
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Music |
05:51 |
Aerial.
Floodplain |
ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: Just near En Gedi
is a floodplain that flows into the Dead Sea. |
05:06 |
Ittai and
Gidon drive to river bed |
Scientists
from the geological survey of Israel come here regularly to try and learn
more about sinkholes. |
06:04 |
Eric
greets Ittai and Gidon |
I’m meeting
geologists Ittai Gavrieli
and Gidon Baer. They’re going to take me down the
dry river beds to check their equipment. |
06:22 |
Gidon, Ittai, Eric to river bed |
GIDON: Those cracks are an indication that we are
approaching a sinkhole area. Just
beyond that sinkhole we have a camera. |
06:35 |
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ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: These scientists have been studying this
area for a decade, especially the flash floods that rush through here. |
06:47 |
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GIDON:
We are now just getting to our camera |
06:57 |
Camera
in river bed |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: The cameras are placed all over the floodplain, waiting to capture footage of these flood events. |
07:03 |
Time
lapse footage of flash floods |
GIDON: Every winter we get flash floods and flash
floods generally used to flow directly to the Dead Sea. |
07:14 |
Gidon
interview |
But
since a few sinkholes formed along the river beds,
flash floods started to be swallowed into those sinkholes and dissolve the
salt layer – the 20 metre deep salt layer – and move eastwards towards the
Dead Sea, but underground. |
07:23 |
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At
the beginning, we really didn’t know where they came
out. But 2012, 2013, we started seeing that these waters come out in other
sinkholes. |
07:42 |
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So
we put cameras in the places where the water was swallowed and cameras where
the water came out, and we saw the time difference and really saw that if you
look at the water – and it’s totally calm – and a few hours after a flash
flood you can really see a vigorous spring coming out of the water, full of
dust, full of clay carried by the water from the flash flood. |
07:58 |
Eric
walks with Ittai and Gidon |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: Only the scientists are allowed to come here,
because the whole area is considered too dangerous for the public. GIDON:
We are walking above an area which is really forming an underground cave
system, that’s what happening here now. |
08:27 |
Gidon
takes water sample from sinkhole |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: They test the water coming out of a sinkhole to see where
it comes from. That tells them how quickly the caves are forming and how big
they are. GIDON:
It matters first of all for the sake of safety. |
08:45 |
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The
more tunnels, the more dissolution, the less safe it is. |
09:05 |
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Music
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09:09 |
Sinkholes
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ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: This landscape is changing fast; these giant sinkholes are
only four years old. |
09:15 |
Eric
with Ittai at sinkhole |
ITTAI: You see this sinkhole? This evolved within
2-3 years to what you see here now. It’s a
spectacular landscape that developed over a few years. And over time we
envision that the entire area will be a huge sinkhole with whatever water
will eventually overtake it. |
09:22 |
In
car |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: The scientists take their samples and information back to
Jerusalem for testing and analysis. |
09:49 |
Geological
Survey of Israel building |
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09:56 |
Eric
in lab with Gidon examining water samples |
GIDON: These are samples we
took together. ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: So these are all from sinkholes? GIDON: Yeah. ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: Chemical analysis of the water samples will
reveal more about the cave systems, like what minerals have been dissolved
and how quickly that’s happening. |
10:00 |
Eric
and Gidon at computer |
The
results will inform the Israeli government about how the landscape is changing,
and how it can be safely used in the future. |
10:17 |
Gidon
interview. Super: |
GIDON: We can give them an
estimation of where the dangerous areas are. And so, this system is
short-term prediction. We also use this information to map the entire area in
terms of sinkhole hazard, and this is used for general purposes of planning,
planning recreation areas, planning buildings, planning a new settlement
even. Don't plan a settlement in an area where we
can tell you that it's going to be prone to sinkholes. |
10:27 |
Canals,
evaporation ponds |
ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: One reason the Dead Sea is shrinking is
because humans are taking the water out. It’s pumped
via canals to shallow evaporation ponds. They’ve
become the new home of the Dead Sea tourism industry. But many visitors don’t realise they’re not swimming in the natural sea. |
11:13 |
Tourism
resort |
MAN 1: I think this place is amazing. So whether it’s manmade or not, I think it’s got a lot of
history. I think it’s- just look at what the beauty
is today and how do we preserve it. MAN 2: The water is great. |
11:37 |
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You can float on water
because it’s the Dead Sea, it contains a lot of
minerals and salts, and that makes you float, which makes everybody enjoy the
water. |
11:53 |
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WOMAN: And it makes you very young! |
12:09 |
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ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: Nearby, factories in Israel and Jordan |
12:14 |
Potash
factory |
are
extracting valuable minerals. Making potash for fertiliser is big business
here. More than half a billion cubic metres of water is sucked out from the
Dead Sea every year; that’s roughly equivalent to
the volume of Sydney Harbour. |
12:17 |
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The
factories pump a lot back in, but the Geological Survey of Israel says,
overall, they’re responsible for roughly a quarter
of the water lost from the Dead Sea. |
12:36 |
Driving
|
To
understand the main cause of the Dead Sea’s demise we have
to travel north to its source. |
12:53 |
GFX
Map. Sea of Galilee/Jordan River/Dead Sea |
For
thousands of years the Jordan River has carried water from the Sea of Galilee
to the Dead Sea. All that changed with the creation of Israel in 1948. The
water in the Galilee was diverted to supply a growing population and to make
the deserts bloom. Jordan, and Syria also take water from this area. The
price is a disappearing Dead Sea and an escalating conflict over water. |
13:01 |
Polytunnels |
In
the Jordan Valley there’s a big demand for water but
not enough to go around. |
13:38 |
Driving
with Zeyad to Kardala |
Palestinian government worker Zeyad
Fuqaha, is taking me into the West Bank to his home
village of Kardala. "How does it feel to
go home?" |
13:51 |
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ZEYAD: It's an amazing
feeling to be there with your family in your house that you are born in. |
14:03 |
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ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: Zeyad’s family have farmed this
land for generations, but the lack of water restricts them. |
14:10 |
Zeyad
greets family |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: Most farmers living here in the West Bank are Palestinians. |
14:24 |
Zeyad
interview |
ZEYAD:
They have a very big shortage
of water. The water allocated for this village actually is
less than 50% of the needed water. |
14:30 |
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Music
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14:41 |
Zeyad
shows vegetable growing in greenhouse |
ZEYAD:
"Here is the greenhouse." ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: Vegetables are grown in greenhouses to preserve water. "That’s
a big one." |
14:46 |
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ZEYAD:
"You can try it." ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: "Try it raw?" ZEYAD: "Raw. I'm
eating raw. It's full of iron, by the way." ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: "That tastes much better raw than I expected." ZEYAD:
"I like it like this." |
14:58 |
Zeyad
interview in greenhouse |
Kardala area we
have around five cubic metres per hour, which is supplied by the Israeli
company. They use it for crops, agriculture, and also they use for the household usage. |
15:11 |
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The demand is much more higher. You
need more than 12 to 15 cubic metres per hour. ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter:
Three times as much. ZEYAD:
Three times as much. |
15:28 |
Greenhouse
GVs |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: Zeyad says the restrictions
placed on Palestinians fuel tensions with the Jewish
settlers who take much more water. |
15:39 |
Tank
on side of road |
The
settlers came here after Israel captured and occupied the West Bank in 1967. |
15:49 |
West
Bank settlement |
International
law deems the Jewish settlements illegal. Palestinians say their homeland and
their water are being stolen. ZEYAD:
It’s Israeli farms irrigated by
Palestinian water which is the water |
15:58 |
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beneath our feet right now.
Israelis are extracting it from their wells, distributing it to their
settlements. Imagine that.
Israelis in their settlements, |
16:14 |
Zeyad
interview |
they are swimming, they are filling up their swimming pools, they are
consuming three times to four times of the Palestinians, while the
Palestinians here are facing the crisis of drinking water. This is
actually... This is a crisis, this is unacceptable
for us. |
16:29 |
Jordan
Valley Palestinian village |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: Around five thousand Palestinians live in three farming
villages in this part of the Jordan Valley. |
16:46 |
Zeyad and
Eric at engagement party |
Today,
one family is holding an engagement party. |
16:54 |
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ZEYAD: "This is the man who would like to marry tomorrow… and this
is his father." |
17:00 |
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ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: They serve fresh lamb from the village. ZEYAD: "This is mansaf. This
is the number one Palestinian food." |
17:06 |
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ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter:
"What's the spice?" ZEYAD: "It’s the job
of the woman. I don't know…" |
17:17 |
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ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: The
population of these villages is growing, but this area is under the full control of the Israeli military. |
17:5 |
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ZEYAD: They are pushing them to leave their
land, to leave their homes, because of that they are not allowing them to
have permits for reconstruction to build a new homes. |
17:37 |
Aerial
over greenhouses |
ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: Later, we witnessed
these tensions ourselves. |
17:45 |
Israeli
military stop work on road building |
Outside the village, we see a confrontation
between Israeli soldiers and locals. |
17:53 |
Eric
to camera |
The Palestinians in this village are trying
to build a new road, repave the one to the school. But the Israeli military
has come in here and stopped them. They're threatening
to seize the truck. That’s because they control
everything here. Even what the Palestinians do in their villages, with their
money. |
18:11 |
Israeli
military stop work on road building |
The
road is decades old and the village council got a
loan to repair it. There’s nothing they can do to stop the
soldiers seizing their equipment. |
18:28 |
Ghassan |
GHASSAN FUQAH::Every day they come here,
every week, every month and they are forbidding us to do anything. No
buildings, no mosques, no anything! Even water pipes, they forbidden us to do
that. Why? |
18:44 |
Israeli
military seize equipment |
ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: Today the fight is
about a road, but the underlying cause is land and water. |
19:00 |
David Elhayani's farm |
Over
at the Israeli farms it’s a different story –
there’s plenty of water. |
19:18 |
David
greets Eric |
David
Elhayani runs this farm. |
19:29 |
Workers
pack herbs |
He
also heads the Yesha council, which represents
Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. |
19:38 |
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DAVID:
So when
we came to the Jordan Valley, we found a desert. |
19:45 |
David
interview |
There are some time in the summer we have 52 Celsius
degrees. We found a desert. Nothing was growing here. So now the Jordan
Valley is green. |
19:50 |
Worker
harvests herbs in greenhouse |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: David’s family grows herbs, dates, flowers and vegetables
for Israel and export. His workers are primarily
Palestinian. |
20:01 |
David
interview |
DAVID: The Route 90 was empty. Now every Palestinian have a new car,
sometimes two cars. They don't get it by working in
the Palestinian Authority. They get it because they are working with us.
Because they get a good salary, because they have the
opportunity to buy the cars, the opportunity to build the new houses. |
20:24 |
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Music |
20:45 |
Driving
into Jewish settlement, David's home |
ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: The small number of Jewish settlers here live in fenced communities, guarded by the Israeli
military. Some believe God gave them this land. David Elhayani
lives in this hilltop settlement above a Palestinian village. |
20:53 |
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DAVID: I came here to the Jordan Valley to Argaman community |
21:14 |
David
interview at home |
since 1983 I'm a farmer. I have three children, all of them are
married, this is their children. They have five and now we hope that we have
more. |
21:17 |
Jewish
settlement GVs |
Music
|
21:37 |
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ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: The small settlement
is green and quiet. There are irrigated lawns and a swimming pool – although it’s closed. Israel controls all the water in the Jordan Valley
under a temporary agreement that was meant to expire by the end of the 1990s.
Much more per capita goes to the Jewish settlers, but they don’t
see any inequality.
|
21:42 |
David
interview |
DAVID: We
pay more than them for the water. More than them for the water. So they can do whatever they want. |
22:09 |
Razor
wire at edge of settlement |
ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: But
there are clearly two different ways of living here, inside and outside the
wire. |
22:17 |
Jerusalem,
Armenian Orthodox clergy |
It’s not just
the Israelis and Palestinians who revere these waters. Above
the Jordan Valley is the ancient city of Jerusalem. Here, priests of the Armenian Orthodox
church prepare for an important annual ritual. Father Koryoun
Baghdasaryan is getting ready to head down to the sacred waters of the Jordan
River. |
22:30 |
Father Baghdasaryan prepares for ritual |
FATHER
BAGHDASARYAN: Today is the feast of the epiphany of
the Armenian church and we are getting prepared to go down to the river to
the baptismal site where, according to the New Testament, John the Baptist
baptised Jesus Christ. For us,
it’s very important, especially because only the
Armenian church keeps the tradition as it was celebrated in the fourth
century by the universal Christian church. |
23:02 |
Father Baghdasaryan drives to Jordan River with
police escort |
Music
|
23:38 |
|
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: COVID-19 restrictions mean the priests need a police escort, and can only bring 50 people instead of
hundreds. They descend through the Judean desert into the Jordan Valley. The
baptism site is on the militarised border between Jordan and the Palestinian
territories occupied by Israel. Access is controlled by the Israeli military. |
23:40 |
Father Baghdasaryan blesses river |
At
the river, the priests are met by their Armenian counterparts in Jordan
across the water. |
24:14 |
Priests
collect water |
The
patriarch blesses the river’s waters and priests collect them to use in
baptisms and benedictions throughout the year. |
24:30 |
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FATHER
BAGHDASARYAN: Once the water of the
river is blessed, a miraculous water and anyone that has any kind of pain or
any kind of bad feelings he can wash himself with this water and he can be
healed. |
24:40 |
Jordan
River |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: While it’s holy water for some,
the reality is that the source of the Dead Sea – the Jordan River – is now a
polluted stream. All the water that makes it down this far is sewage or from
springs too salty for agriculture. |
24:58 |
Bathers
at Dead Sea |
Back
at the Dead Sea and despite the danger from the sinkholes, the more intrepid
are still going into the salty water. |
25:21 |
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DORON: It’s so close to Tel Aviv and it’s amazing. When you’re in the
metropolis and you drive one hour and you’re in the desert, in the lowest
place on earth. NURIT: It’s beautiful and
we love it. We come here very often. |
25:34 |
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SAMANTHA: A little bit like my own private paradise, like a taste
of heaven on earth. It’s like no-man’s land,
no-one’s here. |
25:47 |
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It’s so dangerous that nobody
really can be here. Sometimes it’s scary, like today
when I was at the sinkhole a big part of the wall just caved in and made a
mini tsunami and I was all alone. |
25:56 |
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ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter:
These swimming holes are only accessible because the Dead Sea is shrinking –
this place used to be underwater. But the continuing decline means this area won’t stay like this for long. |
26:09 |
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DORON: It's amazing. |
26:26 |
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ERIC TLOZEK, Reporter: There are proposals to pump more treated
sewage into the Dead Sea to slow its decline, or even fill the Jordan River
with desalinated sea water. |
26:29 |
Satellite
map showing proposed desalination plant. Super: |
Another plan, called Red to
Dead, would see brine from a proposed desalination plant in Jordan pumped
into the sea. But the project has stalled and
concerns remain about its environmental impact. ITTAI: If and when this happens, |
26:41 |
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we are going to impose changes on the composition of the lake. Changes
that the lake has not seen for millions of years, four to five millions of years. |
27:00 |
Ittai
interview. Super: |
Is it feasible at all to bring in hundreds and hundreds of cubic, of
many cubic metres to the Dead Sea, for them to evaporate, when there is
shortage of water in the region? |
27:09 |
Israeli
irrigated farmlands |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: Israel is now pumping a small amount of water back into the
system, but it’s not enough. Neither the farmers nor the factories are
proposing to take less water to help save the Dead Sea. For the foreseeable future, it’s going to keep shrinking. |
27:25 |
Ittai and
Gidon walk by sinkholes |
ITTAI: But if you look at the
vast shores, and mudflats and sinkholes, it’s a
beautiful landscape. |
27:47 |
|
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: These scientists accept the fate of the Dead Sea, but they
hope that people will be able to enjoy this unique place. ITTAI: If it’s organised |
27:57 |
Ittai
interview |
and people are aware and it’s well maintained, then it can be a perfect
tourism site. I mean, I just imagine, I always compare it to Yellowstone
Park. It’s extremely dangerous if you walk there on
your own and don’t follow the path and the marks. Same thing should be done
here, can be done here, and it could be an amazing attraction. |
28:05 |
Gidon and
Ittai at edge of floodplain/Aerial Dead Sea |
ERIC
TLOZEK, Reporter: But that means accepting a future where the Dead Sea will
keep disappearing, its shattering shoreline extending further every year,
until it is a much smaller, even saltier shadow of its former self. CARMIT: It’s a monument for what people are
doing |
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Carmit
interview |
without knowing what it’s going to make to the
area. When people stopped the Jordan River from entering the Dead Sea, they didn’t think |
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Aerials
over Dead Sea |
that would be the price for it. If our children will say
that they wanted to save it, they can't even do it,
because it's too late. Everything that's happening
here, it's because of us. |
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29:19 |
Credits
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29:36 |
Outpoint
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Lisa McGregor
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Matthew Carney
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