Dubai doesn't have a sewage system for all those big new buildings so
they haul it all away in tank trucks.

Anyone 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.

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.

Un-ga-leev-a-gable....

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-pQdjwliLMA?rel=0

On 4/23/2013 12:59 PM, Bob Engelhardt wrote:
Yes - un-****ing-believable.

But ... that video is 4 years old and (according to Wikipedia) all of
Dubai is now on sewers.

About time, wouldn't you say?

On 4/23/2013 12:59 PM, Bob Engelhardt wrote:
Yes - un-****ing-believable.

But ... that video is 4 years old and (according to Wikipedia) all of
Dubai is now on sewers.

from wiki...

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]

Yes - un-****ing-believable.

But ... that video is 4 years old and (according to Wikipedia) all of
Dubai is now on sewers.