Warning if you are going to Dubai

[trt]

for a holiday!

When you think they are one of the richest Country's in the World, this is disgusting!!!!!

http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=31361

[AlBags]

Dirty .. grubby lot.
I've been out to the middle east a few times (non-voluntarily)
Never again .. not by choice, anyway.

[jackthehat]

What exactly is 'disgusting'?

Did you not think that people even in one of the world's richest countries have need to use the toilet?!?

How would you suggest that they dispose of their sewage?

[MarkRae]

Yep, I must admit I'm struggling to find the problem here. If, like lots of countries, they just left it where they dropped it, that would be much more disgusting!

[joggerjayne]

You don't want to be stuck at the back of that queue!

[joggerjayne]

It gives a whole new meaning to "That's a lot of shi ..."

[jackthehat]

It is an exceedingly long line (really, really long, actually) of stationary sewage tanker vehicles on a desert road. The 2 minute long video is taken from a vehicle passing by this convoy........

[EvianBaby]

Doesn't most of the human waste in this country get dumped into rivers and sea?

[bednobs]

surely being one of the richest countries in the world, they are using their money to pay someone to take away their poo? Isn't that a good thing?

[jackthehat]

It is rather fetching, isn't it? :o)

[venator]

Did you miss the bit that says many drivers get fed up after waiting 3 days, and empty their trucks into rivers & storm drains? Also the Wiki link on Sanitation in Dubai?

[Ratty2E]

Having spent a little time in the UAE and my OH working there for some years I'm not in the least surprised. They have been made one of the richest countries by the West seemingly insatiable need for their oil and frankly it's like a lot of kids let loose in Hamleys. It all seems like it's too much too fast and they've not really had time to adjust their thinking.

[venator]

Evianbaby - no, we have sewage treatment plants in UK and put clean water into rivers. There are heavy fines for allowing untreated sewage to enter UK rivers.

[jackthehat]

I only watched the video, venator.

Not a great deal of difference between Dubai and Blackpool, then? :o)

[jomifl]

No Evian it doesn't. It is illegal to dump raw sewage in watercourses. Most sewage is treated to remove solids then aerated to remove oxygen demand and only discharged into watercourses when it will not harm the aquatic creatures living therein. This is how Londoners manage to drink the same water 3 times before it gets to the sea.

[ichkeria]

"No Evian it doesn't. It is illegal to dump raw sewage in watercourses. Most sewage is treated to remove solids then aerated to remove oxygen demand and only discharged into watercourses when it will not harm the aquatic creatures living therein. This is how Londoners manage to drink the same water 3 times before it gets to the sea. "

But our weather's s**t lol

[EvianBaby]

Oh, I thought it did because my BIL is a civil engineer and this happens to be his specialist area (lovely). He refuses to go into the sea for that very reason and I'm sure he's pointed out places in the South West where you can see it flowing into the sea.

[RATTER15]

You would think that a Country of that kind of wealth they would have all the sewerage pumped out into the desert where it would be treated and turned into a safe product, fertilizer etc or even collected as raw sewage from a central point way out in the desert.

[RATTER15]

Evian, I live in the South West and ive never heard of these places, im sure it would be illegal to pump it into the sea where it would be seen, I thought it had to go miles out to sea.