Water and the lack of it, in the UAE

[Plouasne]

Mods please feel free to move this post if its not in the right place, its about water in the UAE, the lack of it and the problems of desalination of sea water, I found it to be interesting

Multimedia - The National Newspaper

 

[Bernie2]

Hi! Plouasne,

Many think water is going to be the next war maker. The thing is though, I think its poorly understood how much of the poor worlds water the developed nations use. Its said that the UK imports three times as much water as it uses of its own, in the likes of food and meat. The poor countries use their water to grow it and we eat it.

So it looks as though we should be experimenting with growing more of our own food to stop using their water, as well as dare I say looking at the genetic modification of crops!!!

Its a big question which won't go away.

 

[Plouasne]

Berni,

I was there in '65, just when they started to look for oil, was in the RE's then and was seconded to the Trucial Oman Scouts, to help set up a Badger "flash distillation plant", for the T O S, at a place called Mirfa right on the coast, we had to go 18 miles with a 200 gallon bowser to get water, before the plant was up and running
Dubai only had 5 miles of "black top" roads then, Sharjah had a salt water system for washing, the special soap cost a bomb, and was like green Palmolive soap with sand in it, now look at the place

Think I preferred it how it was

Also did a spell in the middle of Saudi in '75 another eye opener, concrete block built water tanks in the "ground" sand more like it, right next to the septic tank

Sorry forgot to say when in the Trucial Oman, they were fighting over the only oasis for miles around, with the Omanies, it was usually settled by the British training parties getting on the radio to their opposite number in the other army and arranging a truce, which lasted a few months, by getting both sides to share the oasis, on a week, and week about on who has the water