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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLook at what I got in an email, someone please tell me this isn't true
if it is then I'm laughing my ass off. I tried snopes but no luck thereMy apologies at any rate.
YES, this is DUBAI.
Beautiful, yes, but it has a
HUGE secret. Now revealed...
The modern Arab world!! You have seen those architectural
wonders of Dubai. However, none are hooked up to a sewer system!
The two minute video below passes a line of poop trucks and never
gets to the end of the line. What were these people thinking?
An unbelievable amount of sewage is generated by the new high-rises
and there is no place to dispose of it. Camel sense seems about right!
Dubai doesn't have a sewage system for all those big new buildings, so
they haul it all away in tank trucks. Look at the number of tank trucks
that are waiting to dump their load. This is amazing. They wait for days
to dump their load.
You would have thought that by building all those huge skyscrapers they
would have enough sense to put in a sufficient sewage system to haul
away all that crap.
You would imagine that those building that look amazingly beautiful were
built on a well-planned system of utilities. But, that's NOT TRUE!!
Watch the following link:
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-pQdjwliLMA?rel=0
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)It's where the affluent meet the effluent.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I'll watch the video, check some sources, get back to you.
It's almost certainly a joke or a RW racist claim.
BRB
madokie
(51,076 posts)considering who I got it from.
I'm starting to be embarrassed to even know this person other than he's the neighbor who lives across the street.
Archaic
(273 posts)No longer. There's a lot of good information online about the sewage treatment facilities within the city now.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Where do they take it all. Out in the desert, or right in the ocean where no one is looking...
arthritisR_US
(7,283 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_Dubai#2009_Sewage_Issues
So again, I think it's racist western crap.
If they can build the highest buildings then they can figure out septic systems.
The authors are just jealous that American Exceptionalism has taken a dump.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Raw sewage threat to booming Dubai
Now we need a current update.
Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)Ghost
MADem
(135,425 posts)The shoreline was "full of shit" for awhile as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_Dubai
During Dubai's economic boom in 2009 the city's rapid growth meant that it was stretching its existing sewage treatment infrastructure to its limits. Sewage from areas of Dubai not connected to the municipal piped network at the time was collected daily from thousands of septic tanks across the city and driven by tankers to the city's only sewage treatment plant at Al-Awir. Because of the long queues and delays, some tanker drivers resorted to illegally dumping the effluent into storm drains or behind dunes in the desert resulting in much controversy. The result of sewage dumped into storm drains was that it flowed directly into the Persian Gulf, near to the city's prime swimming beaches. Doctors warned that tourists using the beaches ran the risk of contracting serious illnesses like typhoid and hepatitis.[10]
Dubai's municipality says that it is committed to trying to catch the culprits and has imposed fines of up to $25,000 as well as threatening to confiscate tankers if dumping persists. The municipality maintains that test results show samples of the water are "within the standard".[11]
As of September 2009, these queues and illegal dumping are no longer reported to be a problem.[12]
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)...to consider that Big Ol' American Idol-McDonald's just paid nearly $100 million fine for toxic dumping right here at home with NO actual need for it.