Look at what I got in an email, someone please tell me this isn't true

[madokie]

if it is then I'm laughing my ass off. I tried snopes but no luck there
My 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]

1. I've heard that before

It's where the affluent meet the effluent.

[NYC_SKP]

2. I am pretty sure it's a bunch of crap.

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]

4. My bet is its a RW racist claim

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]

3. In 2009 that was correct to some extent.

No longer. There's a lot of good information online about the sewage treatment facilities within the city now.

[WCGreen]

5. Jesus H Christ that is amazingly silly....

Where do they take it all. Out in the desert, or right in the ocean where no one is looking...

[arthritisR_US]

6. That's some shitty planning!

[NYC_SKP]

7. OK. In 2009, the city did have a crisis and had to use trucks to send poop to Al-Aweer, 35 km away.

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]

8. Corroboration from 2008.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Raw sewage threat to booming Dubai

Now we need a current update.

[Ghost in the Machine]

9. Maybe they need some Vapoorize??

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Ghost

[MADem]

10. It was true. They've fixed it.

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]

11. You might remind your neighbor...

...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.

[Historic NY]

12. That a lot of crap.....

http://wafflesatnoon.com/2013/05/01/dubai-poop-trucks/