Raw Sewage
Dubai has only 1 sewage plant
Mixed opinions on water
Decreases tourism which is vital to Dubai’s Economy
Sewage gets illegally dumped on beaches
Night time is common for civilians to dump sewageInto man wholes
Causes beach programs to closePeople lose jobsLess tourismFines are given if you are caught
Raw Sewage
Fun but dangerous
Indoor beachIndoor ski slopeUnderwater hotelLargest mall in the worldTallest buildings
Relies on cheap oilLarge energy companies Masdar city, the first carbon neutral
development
Dubai energy systems
First renewable energy cityMost donations for an oil procedureLargest oil planIn DubaiFinish by 2016
Irena Plan
Germany- 11 millionUAE- 136 million, 50 million annuallyClan tech fund- 250 million investment22 billion dollar project in total
Irena’s Funding's
Polluting waterWater will get worse and worseClean, drink, throw junk back in etc.Companies trying to assist
Dubai Water
Carbon dioxide per capita is 44x India, 15x China
600 cars= 1000 peopleBooming attractions create pollutionOne of the biggest polluted lands
Environmental Embarrassments
Fossil fuels put all civilians lives in dangerGreenhouse gasses in Dubai are 33.6 metric
tons, and the world average is only 3.7Temperature is increasing by 1.8 – 4 degrees
Celsius by the end of the centuryAfter US, most domestic waste
Don’t breathe in Dubai
Construction Causes Chaoslargest factor in pollutionmany cranes are used for tall buildingsglass is harder to build, and therefore more costly
and polluting more
New programs2 surrounding new cities now have recycling
programsIn the process of finding a way to reuse wash
basinReusing swimming pool watersolar panels(IRENA)
Garbage increase
1.5 million residents threw away 2.19 tons in 2007
56% increase from 20058000 tons were buried near a river
3.34 million tons of waste was collected last year, 438,327 tons more than in 2006
Resourceshttp://gulfnews.com/mobile/news/gulf/uae/general/garbage-talk-throw-away-society-1.457542
http://designbuild.network.com/projects/hydropolis/7.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7663883.stm7.
Resourceshttp://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwa
rtz/sustainability/uae-country-worlds-largest-carbon-footprint-host-international-re#
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h-pKidZrplWL69eH_TNBOHBBUX1w
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