Well, I copied out the article below about a proposed 'canal' between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea several years ago and totally forgot about it and there is also another proposal for a 'canal' between the Med and Dead Sea.
The importance is that this could be seen to be a fulfillment of the prophecy in the Apocalypse of Ezra about the Dead Sea Vomiting Fish (and possibly making a Sound that all hear).
Scientists Oppose Peres' Dead Sea Canal Scheme
by Gil Ronen
(IsraelNN.com) The World Bank has finished a series of public hearings on a project which will link the Red Sea in the Gulf of Eilat to the depleted and polluted Dead Sea, located between Israel and Jordan. The project, which calls for the digging of a canal between the two bodies of water, has been touted by President Shimon Peres as part of the "Peace Valley" scheme which he believes will bring Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Israel closer together.