By. Michael Levin
And it’s environmental Issues
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Dubai- Big city in United Arab Emirates, Middle east
Dubai has billions of dollars from oil production
Dubai also depends on tourism
Dubai has many environmental issues
Recently some organizations starting to fix
environmental issues
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Very Wealthy from striking oil in 1966
Use’s money for many projects
Examples of projects: Hotels, Buildings and Islands
Wealthy tourists visit these projects
everyday less and less tourist are vacationing in Dubai
Projects need factories that produces waste and sludge
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Luxurious hotel
Second tallest hotel in the world
Sits on a artificial island on the coast off
Jumeriah Beach
Private bridge connects it to land
Artificial sand pollutes sea
Lots of trash and waste gets thrown from off
the hotel
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first underwater hotel
$300 million dollar project
Also off the coast of Jumeriah beach
Due date continues to be pushed back
DESTROY’S MARINE LIFE INCLUDING FISH
AND SEEPLANTS
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Experiencing climate change
Water pollution from sewage and sludge
Air pollution from harmful substances including carbon
dioxide
Pollution contributing to climate change
Climate change contributes to global warming
Need many waste producing plants for desalination and
electricity
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Dubai borders Persian gulf
Persian gulf is getting contaminated with sewage
Many tourists can’t swim because of the raw sewage
Marine life is getting destroyed
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Dubai lacks drinkable water
Lots of salt in water
Desalination plant takes salt out of water so it’s drinkable
Plants put salt back- too much salt in swimming water
Sludge from desalination plants also pollutes water
Produces about 3-4 thousand bottles of water a fay but not
much backup water
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Air pollution is the worst it’s ever been in Dubai
Pollutions in the air include hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide
and carbon dioxide
The main contributors in the air are car emissions
Air pollution is leaving a carbon footprint
Carbon footprint=giving off pollution that effects the whole
world (some footprints can be smaller or bigger than others)
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Dubai has very little electricity
Finds solar energy and energy from wind power inefficient
Dubai can’t continue to use Qatar’s(Middle east country)
natural gases for power
Coal costs too much because of transportation
Starting to use nuclear power for electricity
Many other Electricity producers inefficient to environment
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Barack Obama fears Iran(Middle East country) will get nuclear
power and use it as weapon
Many Dubai citizens disagree with President Obama
Many other Middle East Countries interested in Nuclear Power
Countries: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar…
Nuclear power helps environment because less electricity
demand
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25,000 people part of trash picking program
Trying to pick enough trash to take away from Carbon
Footprint
Stockholm Enviroment Institute and Tufts Institute are
doing research
Abu Dhabi (UAE capital) and Masdar (UAE city)put
together program called Masdar Initiative
Masdar Initiative helps renew energy
Trash picking up
program’s symbol
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Dubai has very little natural resources
Dubai Uses many waste producing plants to replace Natural
resources
Dubai has NO NATURAL POWER
Dubai is starting to build projects and towers in a big sandy
area
Water is contaminated with salt
Salt levels continue to raise
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What are the two greatest environmental
concerns in Dubai, UAE? What are they doing
to help the environment
How and why has this changed over time?
How does this affect?
(Answers are on the next slide)
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The greatest environmental concerns in Dubai
is the carbon foot print it’s leaving from air
pollution and the waste that is polluting the
water
Around forty years ago, Dubai did not have
much environmental issues, recently Dubai
started to build many projects
This pollution is affecting the world because
Dubai’s climate change is putting global
warming into full affect
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