Word: mandeb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Damned Sea. Ley also likes hydraulic engineering that works in reverse. If the Red Sea, for instance, were dammed at the Strait of Bab El Mandeb (its southern extremity) and the Suez Canal were closed, its level would fall through evaporation at a rate of more than 12 ft. a year. After the sea had sunk 50 ft., the water of the Indian Ocean, flowing into it through turbines, would generate as much electricity per day as 200,000 tons of coal. The biggest such project is damming the Mediterranean at the Strait of Gibraltar. In a century its level...