There would be major skirmishes over what countries get the new land. Also it may lead to new neighbors that are incompatible. How will Sudan and Saudi-Arabia get along side by side? Also Sudan and Eritrea would have access to the sea cut off. read more
If we drained the Red Sea we would have an empty barren below sea level. We would waste a lot of energy constantly pumping to keep out ground water for no useful purpose whatsoever. The Suez Canal would be pretty useless, and Egypt would really miss the revenue. read more
First of all, for the sake of simplicity in this calculation let’s pretend that the ocean is a perfectly symmetrical bowl which could be drained through a single opening (in reality, due to the complex topography, it would be impossible to drain all the water in the ocean through a single plug hole). read more