Why can't we drain the Mediterranean?
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Zirp say: Because the countries around the mediterranean need the water as a temperature-buffer. Nobody likes temperatures of over 50 degrees celsius
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MARK say: A more pertinent question is why should we drain the Mediterranean?
I suggest you have not though this through. Where would you put all the water? How would you stop rain falling and rivers draining into the Mediterranean while you were draining it? Why would you want to kill all life that has the Mediterranean Sea as its habitat? Why would you want to cause significant change to the climate of the Mediterranean area? Why would you want to ruin many economies that depend on the Mediterranean Sea?
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Linda say: Where are you going to put all of the water?
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Amy say: Why on earth would we?
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say: You mean so that those people from Africa could just walk over. The Mediterranean is like the water that separates Britain from Europe. It keeps what is happening on the other side, THERE and not spreading. Besides that the many rivers that leak water into the Sea is many and large. That would continue to happen. And ground water would seep in from the water table from the Atlantic Ocean. It is not a small lake.
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Gray Bold say: You would need one hell of a dam. The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Gibraltar and Peninsular Spain in Europe from Morocco and Ceuta (Spain) in Africa. Europe and Africa are separated by 7.7 nautical miles (14.3 km; 8.9 mi) of ocean at the strait's narrowest point.
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tham153 say: Lots of big rivers drain into it, and diverting them seems unlikely. No reason to drain it anyway, since it is a major route for shipping
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say: There is an ocean leaking into it...
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T.P. say: Because there's nowhere to put the water...
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say: Why would anyone want to do that?
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oneofmagi@rocketmail.com say: Why do you need to drain water of the Mediterrannean?
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Nikki say: i read an interesting article on the alternating dissication and flooding of the mediterranean sea, and the middle east mediterranean areas. plus, another on the 20,000-year periods of desertification and wet periods that are alternating in the northern africa sahara desert, between ice ages.
the mediterranean sea, and surrounding land areas, were formed by tectonic plates colliding.
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Bill-M say: Where would you put the water??
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Who say: 3 problems
1) where you gonna put the water?
2) what you gonna do about the water flowing into it(there is a hellova lot that can flow into it from the black sea , and some big rivers flowing into that . Not to mention water flowing in from nile and other big rivers around the med
You would need a hellova lot pf pumping capacity just to cope with that
3)what about the rain falling on the med itself
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james say: Good idea. Build a land bridge to Europe. Reduce the need for all those people out there to drown.
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Ian say: It's very easy. Santorini is actually the plug. Lift it up, and all the water runs out
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busterwasmycat say: Well, it is conceivably possible, but why would we want to? Spend a lot of money and markedly modify the climate of three continents to what purpose? It wouldn't be easy but it is not an impossibility. Fill in the Strait of Gibraltar (not a tiny task in any way but not impossible either) and you are on the road to it happening even if we pump nothing.
You wouldn't be "draining" it though because it would not be water leaking out by gravity (not draining away). You would simply change it so the net recharge is less than evaporative loss (which we could hurry along by active pumping, but that is not draining).
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Bill say: Youtube has a few interesting videos on this very subject.
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Atarah Derek say: Because the Atlantic keeps interfering.
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Bubba Ray say: Because it would cost a fortune to call roto-rooter out to clear the drain.
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Zardoz say: It has a hole in it.
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say: Why can't we just burn america down ?? It's just a big clump of land full of pig headed people
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CarolOklaNola say: Sea level is rising is why.
The Mediterranean is becoming smaller because Africa is subducting underneath Europe, but there will be a new ocean where the Great Rift Valley is now.
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