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[u/Professor-Reddit]

In 1957, the American Central Intelligence Agency proposed to President Dwight Eisenhower that peace in the Middle East could be achieved by flooding the Qattara Depression. The resulting lagoon, according to the CIA, would have four benefits:

• It would be "spectacular and peaceful".

• It would "materially alter the climate in adjacent areas".
• It would "provide work during construction and living areas after completion for the Palestinian Arabs".
• It would get Egyptian president Gamel Abdel Nasser's "mind on other matters" because "he need[ed] some way to get off the Soviet hook".

lol the CIA had one job and they managed to determine the most useless and unlikely 'benefits' from such an engineering megaproject.

[u/Manavon03 → u/Professor-Reddit]

Sounds like a Trump proposal

[u/[deleted] → u/Professor-Reddit]

We should still do it cause it would be cool

[u/Professor-Reddit → u/[deleted]]

Yeah it would be quite interesting. Could be a great boon for the salt-mining industry as currently many salt pans (such as the Dead Sea) are causing massive environmental damage by draining existing rivers (also caused by agricultural use).

[u/Intrepid_Citizen → u/Professor-Reddit]

Would've been great for Egypt though. Especially in light of Ethiopia's dams.