Transcript Slide 1

Environmental
Destruction in
Dubai
Raw Sewage
Sewage gets illegally dumped on beaches
Decreases tourism which is vital to Dubai’s Economy
Mixed opinions on water
Night time is common for
civilians to dump sewage
Into man wholes
 Causes beach programs to close
 People lose jobs
 Less tourism
 Fines are given if you are caught
Indoor beach
Indoor ski slope
Underwater hotel
Largest mall in the world
Tallest buildings
 Relies on cheap oil
 Large energy companies
 Masdar city, the first carbon neutral development
 First renewable energy city
 Most donations for an oil procedure
 Largest oil plan
 In Dubai
 Finish by 2016
 Germany- 11 million
 UAE- 136 million, 50 million annually
 Clan tech fund- 250 million investment
 22 billion dollar project in total
 Polluting water
 Water will get worse and worse
 Clean, drink, throw junk back in etc.
 Companies trying to assist
 Carbon dioxide per capita is 44x India, 15x China
 600 cars= 1000 people
 Booming attractions create pollution
 One of the biggest polluted lands
 Fossil fuels put all civilians lives in danger
 Greenhouse gasses in Dubai are 33.6 metric tons, and
the world average is only 3.7
 Temperature is increasing by 1.8 – 4 degrees Celsius by
the end of the century
 After US, most domestic waste
Construction Causes Chaos
 largest factor in pollution
 many cranes are used for tall buildings
 glass is harder to build, and therefore more costly and
polluting more
New programs
 2 surrounding new cities now have recycling programs
 In the process of finding a way to reuse wash basin
 Reusing swimming pool water
 solar panels
 (IRENA)
Garbage increase
1.5 million residents threw away 2.19 tons in 2007
56% increase from 2005
8000 tons were buried near a river
3.34 million tons of
waste was collected
last year, 438,327 tons
more than in 2006
Resources
http://gulfnews.com/mobile/news/gulf/uae/
general/garbage-talk-throw-away-society1.457542
http://designbuild.network.com/projects/hy
dropolis/7.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/766
3883.stm7.
Resources
 http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-
schwartz/sustainability/uae-country-worlds-largestcarbon-footprint-host-international-re#
 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeq
M5h-pKidZrplWL69eH_TNBOHBBUX1w