Pool of water near Dead Sea turns blood red, authorities investigating
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(Worthy News) – A pool of water near the Dead Sea was found to be red recently, with the Jordanian Water Ministry sending technical teams on Saturday to take samples and find out why the pool was red, according to Jordanian media.
Local residents circulated photos of the red pond on social media, wondering how the color change occurred.
Sakhr Al-Nusour, the head of the Jordanian Geologists Syndicate, telling the Jordanian Al Ghad news that the red color could have been caused by algae, iron oxide or the addition of substances by humans to change the water’s color to red. [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]
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