Dead Sea, also called 

Salt Sea,
landlocked salt lake between Israel and Jordan in southwestern Asia. Its
eastern shore belongs to Jordan, and the southern half of its western shore
belongs to Israel. The northern half of the western shore lies within the
Palestinian West Bank and has been under Israeli occupation since the
1967 Arab-Israeli war. The Jordan River, from which the Dead Sea receives
nearly all its water, flows from the north into the lake. The Dead Sea has the
lowest elevation and is the lowest body of water on the surface of Earth. For
several decades in the mid-20th century, the standard value given for the
surface level of the lake was some 1,300 feet (400 metres) below sea level.
Beginning in the 1960s, however, Israel and Jordan began diverting much of
the Jordan River’s flow and increased the use of the lake’s water itself for
commercial purposes. The result of those activities was a precipitous drop in
the Dead Sea’s water level. By the mid-2010s, measurement of the lake level
was more than some 30 metres below the mid-20th-century figure—i.e., 430
metres below sea level—but the lake continued to drop by about 1 metre
annually.

It is eight or nine times saltier than the oceans of the world - so dense and
mineral rich that it doesn't even feel like normal water, more like olive oil
mixed with sand.
For decades no holiday in the Holy Land or Jordan has been complete without
a photograph of the bather sitting bolt upright on the surface, usually reading
a newspaper to emphasise the extraordinary properties of the water.
But the Dead Sea is also a unique ecosystem and a sensitive barometer of the
state of the environment in a part of the world where an arid climate and the
need to irrigate farms combine to create a permanent shortage of water.
You may have read that the Dead Sea is dying. You can see why the idea
appeals to headline writers but it isn't quite true.
As the level drops, the density and saltiness are rising and will eventually
reach a point where the rate of evaporation will reach a kind of equilibrium.
So it might get a lot smaller, but it won't disappear entirely.