"A ‘historic agreement’ designed to save the Dead Sea has been signed to link its dwindling body of water with the Red Sea using a 112 mile (180km) pipeline. The deal, named the Red-Dead Conduit, has been considered for years, but has finally been signed by The Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Israel at the World Bank in Washington. The massive infrastructure project will see 200 million cubic metres of water pumped from a desalination plant every year, which would be located at the mouth of the Red Sea in Jordan."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2521282/Dead-Sea-linked-Red-Sea-112-mile-underground-pipe-stop-drying-completely-2050.html
A cubic meter is 264 gallons. So that's 52.8 billion gallons of water per year.
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