Suicidal Cities: Dubai, UAE How Dubai is it’s Environment How Dubai is FAILING it’s Environment [Written By Dana Suri] [Written By Dana Suri] Dubai 2010.

Suicidal Cities:Dubai, UAE

How Dubai is FAILING it’s Environment

[Written By Dana Suri]

Dubai 2010

Dubai’s Environmental ConcernsAnd How They’re Being Fixed

• Sewage is being dumped into the water which is needed for drinking.

• There are more cars, though most are at least seven years old, and they are polluting the air.

• There is a fine of $25,000 for the people who dump sewage if they’re caught.

• There are air monitors and a website to show the pollution, as well as a Memorandum of Understanding between Dubai Muncipality and Abu Dhabi.

How the World is Affected(Not the Islands)

• Worrying environmentalists

• Polluting Persian Gulf

• Attracting tourists

• Killing local marine life

Dubai Geographyand Natural Resources

Geography:• Irrigated desert • Flat• Next to Persian GulfNatural Resources:• Oil• Salt

Dubailand

• Underwater hotel

• Indoor ski resort

• Outdoor pool cooled in desert

• Fake islands shaped like either the world or palm trees

•Several buildings vying to be the tallest building in the world

•Indoor beach

Construction

Indoor Ski Resort

• 34 or 35 degrees Fahrenheit• 22,500 meters sq. and 85

meters high• Two cafes at bottom and

halfway up• 5 different sets—400 meters

tops

•Tobogganing and more is allowed and encouraged (rents available)•Also has dune buggies for dune surfers outside

Indoor SkiResort

Indoor Ski Resort

• 3 billion square feet

• 2x Disney World size with 45 “mega-projects” big enough to be their own park

• Construction started October 23, 2003 and is expected to be complete by 2020

•Has schools and hotels

•Probably going to expand after it is complete

Dubailand

Dubailand

• On land owned by Dubai Crown Prince (Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum)

• At entrance: large screen theatre showing marine biology that opens at end to show the hotel

•First submerged hotel

•$483 million designed by Joachim Hauser

Hydropolis

Hydropolis

• Rose Tower: 2684 ft. tall and still not at the height planned, it has 72 stories

• Burj Khalifa: 2717 ft. tall and the tallest building on Earth with construction that started on September 21, 2004

• Emirates Complex: a 54 story building joined to the 56th floor for a total of 1163 ft. that is the 12th tallest building

•21st Century Tower: 883 ft. tall with 55 stories, it has no balconies but overlooks the Persian Gulf and has a gym and is being used by cabin crew members of the Emirates Airline

Skyscrapers

Skyscrapers

• Islands meant to hold hotels for millionaires are eroding and the areas between the islands are becoming clouded with silt

• They are manmade in the shape of palm trees and the world

• It’s a ten-year project “in a coma” (Nakheel)

•2009- Nakheel (construction co.) was bailed out at a cost of $25 billion•People own most of the sinking islands•Nakheel insists the islands aren’t sinking

SinkingIslands

PalmIsland

• The salt is thrown back into the water

• Red Tide is feeding on the sewage

• Red Tide might shut the desalination plant down

•There’s enough fresh water stored for months

•The sewage in the water is allowing the E. Coli to grow too numerable to count

DesalinatingWater

Dubai Waterfront

• Dust is natural and at acceptable levels

• The main problems are from cars

• The cars are generally seven years old or older

• The pollutants are being monitored

• There are 14 fixed and 2 mobile monitors

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) allows the air pollution to be posted on a website so the overall air pollution can be seen

AirPollution

Burj al Alam

• 1 plant for 1.4 million people

• 12-16 hour wait for proper disposal

• People dump the sewage down storm drains

•It runs into the water near the beaches

•Some beaches have been shut down•In November, the Palm Jumeirah was closed for the same reason

Sewage Disposal

The World

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Dubai’s Mall

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