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Where do they get their water supply for landscaping in Dubai?
I was checking out Dubai in Google Earth and the amount of construction for luxury complexes is absolutely amazing! Since it's a desert, where do they get their water for irrigating all these landscaped areas?
12 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavourite answer
underground
- Linda TLv 51 decade ago
Dubai has a large desalinisation/power complex that supply electricity and water, and a new plant currently being built which is supposed to supply 600 million gpd of water.
Source(s): http://www.uaeinteract.com/news/default.asp?ID=225 http://www.lahmeyer.de/projects/ge/jebel-ali_desal... - Anonymous7 years ago
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- Raven75Lv 51 decade ago
Dubai has no natural river bodies or oases; however multiple gorges and waterholes dot the base of the Western Al Hajar mountains and the sea is there. so I'm guessing that they use the gorges. Or a type of osmosis to purify the salt water.
- PBIPhotoArtistLv 51 decade ago
Desalination plants to make fresh water from sea water. But they do it with multi-stage flash vaporization (boiling distillation) using natural gas as fuel, not reverse osmosis. When fuel is basically free, as it is in the oil-rich countries in that area, it's pretty economical to do.
The entire Arabian/Persian Gulf region gets the majority of their water this way.
Source(s): Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, Sr. Level Accident Analyst Senior Safety Analyst - Anonymous1 decade ago
It's man made water. Artificially created in the world's only water refinery. They create 1,232,756 gallons of water per hour out of sand at a secret plant someplace in the middle of the desert.
Source(s): www.dubaidesertwater.du - 1 decade ago
Desalinization plants that take the salt out of ocean water. It is an idea that's time has come. They are very expensive to operate, but hopefully when more are in operation the price will come down.
- 1 decade ago
Desalination.
Source(s): http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/drinkseawater.html http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=2... - Anonymous1 decade ago
Probably the same way Egypt and other places to it; reverse osmosis water plants. After a while, most of the world will use reverse osmosis for fresh water.
