Environmental Destruction in Dubai By : Gabe Morrison

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