Hilton Corniche Apartments & Hotel Residences Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Photo via Uggboy-photograph-world-sense For the UAE, water hasn’t been much of a problem so long as there is plenty of oil. With the wealth that oil provides, more water than one could possibly consume is whipped up in desalination plants and poured over golf courses and into lavish gardens and resorts. The per capita water use in Abu Dhabi, the wealthiest of the emirates, is as high as 550 liters a day, or around four times that of an average European citizen, and as too much fresh w… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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United Arab Emirate’s Reliance on Desalination Spells Water Disaster
