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An ecological engineering catastrophy, that's Dubai!

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they don't have sewers in dubai? wtf?
I hope at least the waste is somehow being used for energy production? you know, gas conversion and what not (I actually have no idea if human waste can be used for that).

Very little. It was never built with that infrastructure originally. The older villas/buildings have cesspits built underneath with an access drain nearby. When it's full (which takes a long time!) you call up the municipality and they send one of these tankers (affectionately called "honey carts") to empty your cesspit.

Newer developments will have sewers and they will try and retrofit the infrastructure where they can. But yeah, it's a serious problem in Dubai right now.
>> ^EMPIRE:

they don't have sewers in dubai? wtf?
I hope at least the waste is somehow being used for energy production? you know, gas conversion and what not (I actually have no idea if human waste can be used for that).

At Dubai's only sewage treatment plant there are long queues and serious delays.
Truck drivers who are paid by the lorry load to collect waste from the city's septic tanks wait for several hours to dispose of their foul cargo legally.
There simply is not the capacity to deal with all the human waste the city dwellers produce.

"After dark some drivers are taking a shortcut and dumping their loads straight into manholes meant only for rainwater."

- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7663883.stm

I would have thought such waste could be processed and used to add fertilizer and nutrients in such a desert region?

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>> ^raverman:

I would have thought such waste could be processed and used to add fertilizer and nutrients in such a desert region?


I was doing some paving at a landfill a couple years back. They had an uncovered truck that would show up with this jello pudding like substance (human waste) visible when it got on an incline at a distance. They were dumping that stuff in the landfill. Someone there said that while they do reuse it, they can only use so much of it and the extra has to be disposed since storing it for use later is a losing battle.

But if we have some sort of massive epidemic run through the country, it will probably be due to using near straight solid waste on our crops....having them develop some kind of infection that can transfer to us and it being too late to stop by the time it's hit us. I always wondered where the first zombie came from.

At the end of the line: The Bog of Eternal Stench.

Worst case of traffic constipation I've ever seen.

Sanitation issues

Currently, human waste is 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. Dubai's rapid growth means that it is stretching its limited sewage treatment infrastructure to its limits. Because of the long queues and delays, some tanker drivers resort to illegally dumping the effluent into storm drains or behind dunes in the desert. Sewage dumped into storm drains flows directly into the Persian Gulf, near the city's prime swimming beaches. Doctors have warned that tourists using the beaches run the risk of contracting serious illnesses like typhoid and hepatitis.

source:wiki/Dubai


somebody needs to make some carbon nano poop tubes or something

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Lard tundrin' Jayzus, bay that's more poop than there is in all Newfoundland, and that's including Labrador and part of Cep Breton!

it would be somewhat poetic justice if dubai were done in by its own shit

"Continuous Loop of Poop."

That there is one of the Rings of Hell, to be sure.