Confused? Check out the map at the start of the thread. It shows the water coming from the Med, leading to a hydro-electric power plant i.e. converting the flow of water into a green, no-carbon based power resource. I would expect there would be a way of extracting the salt from the water.
Easy to imagine other developments from tourism, to fish farming.
There are a number of lakes in Ethiopia and Eritrea in the same reigon that could work in the same fashionA very interesting idea!
So we have Qattara and possibly Assal - any others?