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It shrinks about thirteen inches of water a year while the water level goes down about four feet. If people continue to draw water from there, the sea could vanish in the next five decades. The sea, which is actually a lake, is the world’s saltiest body of water and has the lowest elevation on Earth. In 2013, ABC News reported that more than three thousand sinkholes exist along the banks of the Dead Sea and some of these go eighty feet into the ground.
