Dead Sea is SHRINKING and could be the size of a POOL by 2050

This is because there is more competition for water resources and factories are mining minerals from the Dead Sea, by evaporating small parts of it.

The River Jordan – which according to the Bible is where Jesus was baptised – once replenished the Dead Sea but there is now only a trickle of water going into the salt lake, thanks to climate change.

Dr Ofir Katz, an ecologist at the Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, said: “It’s a lesson to everyone: don’t mess with nature because nature will always win and we will always lose.

“If we keep taking fresh water from nature from the Sea of Galilee, or from the Euphrates for example, or the Nile, we will eventually ruin the local environment.