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Why We’re Never Swimming At A Dubai Beach Again

November 11, 2008 at 9:05 AM | by | Comments (2)

Scary and stinky news out of Dubai: The beaches are full of sewage. Not something we like at the best of times but especially not if we’re indulging in a bit of risky sex on the beach.

And here’s the sad truth behind build-it-and-they’ll-come Dubai--it might have the world’s tallest buildings and biggest shopping malls, but it has no main drainage system. Waste is transported by drivers to an overcrowded site where they might have a ten-hour wait to dump their load, so some are just dumping it earlier in random ditches.

Apparently brave tourists who go driving off-road are starting to come across "lakes of excrement," so perhaps Dubai’s next world’s biggest record will be the biggest lake of, well, really unpleasant stuff.

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Yuck!

And Vegas is supposed to be the superficial place? Talk about only focusing on outward appearances. It doesn't take a genius central planner to figure out that a sewer system is pretty important.
Victor Ozols on November 11, 2008 at 11:39 AM #Permalink

Dubai town planning

Agreed. To be honest the lack of a sewer system makes me wonder what else Dubai's leaving out in their hurry to get all those record-breaking skyscrapers up - like, do they know about building foundations?
amandak on November 12, 2008 at 3:51 AM #Permalink

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