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| -Lurid Crime Tales- |
| huge dubai honey pit... phew! |
| 2008-12-03 |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #7 IOW, buy-at-your-own-risk free fertilizer, after a time. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-12-03 22:43 |
| #6 Even with lovely shallow water plants like reeds and cattails, how badly would it stink downwind, Alaska Paul? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-12-03 19:52 |
| #5 AP wins the combined Rantburg U. and Snark o' the Day award. ;-) |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-12-03 19:48 |
| #4 The tanker in the picture is, Ima guessin' about 3500 gallons capacity. There are 500 tankers a day. So you have about 1.75 million gallons of wastewater hauled per day. Say everyone uses 50 gallons per day, then you have about 35000 people served. Everyone generates about 0.17 lb BOD (biochemical oxygen demand) per capita, so you have something around....say, 6000 lb BOD per day. A primary cell in a sewage pond, not using air blowers, but just the air/water interface to transfer O2 to water for the bugs to decompose the sewage (BOD) will be 30 lb BOD/acre. So you have a pond in the order of 200 acres. Big pond. You could do something like make 4 ea 50 acre ponds. Then you take the output of those ponds and feed by gravity into a settling pond, where the solids remaining will settle and the effluent clears itself up. You could put a roll type liner in the pond and eliminate ground contamination. The point of this little exercise is to show that it took about 10 minutes to gage and scope out the problem. With minimal expense, they could have their sewage problems solved. Another example of simple math, fundamentals of engineering and biology vs. The Insh'allah Effect. When the IE dominates, all you get is a pile of sh*t. QED |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul in Nikolaevsk, AK 2008-12-03 16:27 |
| #3 Different cultures - different priorities. Why should we care, if we don't have to live with it? Remind me to cross Dubai off my places to visit. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-12-03 16:17 |
| #2 they can build the worlds tallest building , new malls. and about anything else that money can buy but not a second sewage treatment plant? where are the euros screaming the enviromental shit at them |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2008-12-03 13:44 |
| #1 "This is what mother nature does over the long term... some of the water will seep into the ground and some will evaporate. The lagoon will have four areas and eventually the water will get clearer," Najim told Gulf News. He said this technology is commonly used in countries that cannot afford proper facilities or infrastructure. One of the world's oldest "technologies". |
| Posted by: DoDo 2008-12-03 11:18 |