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So it was all a fairy tale then? WTF for all their money, the Emirate couldn't build something as essential as a sewer system? This must rank as the greatest threat ever to Dubai's tourism and living infrastructure.

Tourists who use Dubai’s beaches run the risk of contracting serious illnesses – including typhoid and hepatitis – as the Middle Eastern resort struggles to combat a tidal wave of illegally dumped sewage, doctors have warned.

Authorities in the emirate have come under fire from hoteliers and business owners for failing to address the problem, which is blighting beaches in the upmarket Jumeirah district, where most tourists stay.

Human waste from Dubai’s 1.3m inhabitants is collected daily from thousands of septic tanks across the city and driven by hundreds of tankers to the emirate’s only sewage treatment plant, in the desert at Al-Awir.

At least, that’s what should happen. In reality, the effluent is being illegally dumped into storm drains or hidden behind dunes in the desert by tanker drivers unwilling to join the 10-hour queues at the plant.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article5207225.ece

http://travel.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=665862
 
They should dump it all in the dunes then maybe one day something will actually grow there.

Buildings have septic tanks ? Just how big are these tanks !? :eek:
 
http://www.ameinfo.com/141407.html

Sewage production in Dubai is increasing by about 25 per cent a year and averages 480,000 cubic metres a day
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Now that's a lot of poop !

In the meantime, Mrs. Abdooli says some of the city's excess "tertiary-treated sewage effluent" is used to water the landscaping and public gardens that now dot much of this desert city. That is shorthand for treated sewage.

"Most of the city's green areas and public parks are irrigated with this water," she says.

At Dubai's Arabian Ranches, a development of million-dollar homes, parents whisk children inside when the sprinkler systems start working.

John Robins, managing director of a media group here, quickly closes the top of his convertible when he drives along a Dubai boulevard where sprinklers are watering the landscaped medians.

"It's quite nauseous," he says.
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:eek::sick:
 
Not with the current oil price, they must be "sh1tting" themselves.
 
This story is crap!! But if you don't take care of sh1te in tends to "pile" up on you and that's the short and long of it...
 
you could get hepatitis off of the beach sand?
 
It's all apartheid's fault. The apartheid engineers only catered for the sewerage treatment needs of a minority of the planet.
 
Albereth said:
It's all apartheid's fault. The apartheid engineers only catered for the sewerage treatment needs of a minority of the planet.
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Now why do you have to take this thread there? Gees man.
 
Interesting thing i heard, about "The World" islands they built. Whoever buys an island will have to build their own water treatment and sewerage facilities on the island. None of those islands have any connections to the mainland whatsoever.
 
Albereth said:
It's all apartheid's fault. The apartheid engineers only catered for the sewerage treatment needs of a minority of the planet.
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If this were slashdot I would have moderated your post 'redundant'.
 
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