You show an article at 3:20 that says 35,000 people will produce 15 tonnes of sewage per day. 15 tonnes is 30 thousand pounds. That means each person produces less than a pound of waste per day. .85 lbs to be exact. Or 385 grams. I maybe wrong but I would have estimated that number as being a bit higher.
@@Lethgar_Smith are you referring to metric tons, short tons or long tonnes? Regardless, it is too much collective poop whether measured in gr. or oz/kilo or pound...🤔😁
Play Sim City with cheat codes so your perfectly wealthy community can grow with zero industrial, commerce, or residential taxes, and guess what? Those assholes will still complain about how high the taxes are. I think this is why they have that god mode where you can destroy the town. I mean zero taxes, and the people still complain about them. I
This is what happens when you have too much money and no R&D and want your country to be superficially on par with modern countries as fast as possible instead of growing normally and organically
While i mostly agree with u, i would like to introduce the dubai lightbulb as a counter example. These lightbulbs are made by phillips and only sold in dubai bc they are so over engineered that they provide vastly superior energy efficiency and will last 10 to 15 years. In other words its hard to make a profit off of they bc they last so damn long.
@@TheFirebird123456 I don't see how this is a counter example considering the Phillips is an American company...so really, UAE is still relying on other countries to do anything. EDIT: OKAY, OKAY! I get it, Philips is a dutch company, I got corrected on this enough times, stop sending me messages telling I was wrong on this, I get it.
@@TheFirebird123456 Are you talking about LED-type lightbulbs? Perhaps Fillips still could make enough profit from that if they sell them like at 10 times higher price than usual ones. That is how led type lightbulb business works.
Meanwhile in Oman: Muscat is a beautiful city with traditional Arabic architecture and a fantastic waste-water and sewage treatment system. Muscat is like the anti-Dubai
Anyone in the Navy who has been on a deployment and pulls into Dubai knows the first thing you smell getting off the boat is shit! This explains everything 😂😂😂
I don't know how you came with this conclusion but these are NEW buildings that ADDED to an old system and town plan and it's getting fixed over time. Not sure what's wrong with that.
They should make a new tourist attraction with a Gigantic, way bigger than built ever before, above-ground acrylic see-through sewer system! So everyone can watch all of the sewage constantly flowing from the Burj Khalifa. In that case they don't have to dig any new holes, and they can make money charging people to watch all of the crap going by!
If I went all the way to Dubai.... this would probably not be on my to-do list. But nice concept tho. They could market it to make the thing look touristy.
I feel so betrayed by Richard Hammond. In all of his videos and shows about the amazing engineering of the Burj Khalifi and Burj al Arab, he never once mentioned that they are giant poop factories which require their own fleets of delivery trucks. I wonder why we never heard about those "engineering connections"?
Well, aside from the poopoo part, the engineering really is marvelous. And the show is supposed to highlight the good stuff anyway, what inspires them and how they come up with it, not the stupid stuff
If you tune in to watch Nat Geo and Discovery in mid 2000s Dubai was everywhere in the channeI, I had a hard time get away from all the Dubai docs they show almost all of them are about new skyscrapers and palm islands none about their sewage system.
@@mikemotorbike4283 lol, what I meant is that the dysfunctional sewage system is a failure, more or less. If it were to be featured in a documentary, it would be in a one titled engineering failure or something
@@barebarekun161 I remember that time, lol. I used to be so fascinated by them as a kid. Now, as someone who has to save money from time to time, I can see how impractical some of the 'architectural marvels' are.
Dubai is like the most soulless and bland city in the world. It's like a bunch of executives gathered together to figure out the most bland and corporate dystopia ever
Well that's what happens when a government is a monarchy and has bottomless pockets from all the petroleum sales. All of this stuff probably looked cool in the drawings and nobody cared about what would need to be going on under the hood.
Instead of building generic skyscrapers they should have build stuff that shows of their culture and traditional architecture: that would have been interesting to tourists
@@mr.duckplucker5353 Cubans live there. Cuba is paradise. They still drive unspoiled classic American muscle cars while pasty capitalist white boys have mod them out
@@ameen7538 Nah, I disagree. Criticism does not equal "salty". My point was despite all their wealth they still don't have proper plumbing or a sewer system. It's funny.
Why doesn't Dubai build a giant biogas plant? With all that sheet, they can power up a large portion of their cities! Also the spent fuel makes good fertilizer
Why waste money on Biogas plants when it’s not a tourist attraction? Dubai doesn’t concern itself with common sense city planning. Case in point, Bhuj Khalifa, palm islands, world islands, making glass buildings when it’s 50C in the summer.
They couldn’t find a sewage system able to take the momentum of a turd flushed on the 163 floor of the Burj Khalifa. As it neared light speed when it touched base on the first curve at ground level, it just carried straight on down and damaged the foundations.
My bad that was me I haven't ate enough fiber lately and basically launched a guided atgm through the plumbing system hence the devastation to the foundation
For some reason everyone in Dubai has a hard-on for the Guinness book of world records. Everything they do there is for Guinness. They have the worlds largest empty building, the worlds largest empty airport, and the worlds largest empty water fountain. They'd cut off and eat their own feet if it was a category in the book of world records.
At least these arer positive records. Other countries are famous for the more negative ones: The biggest incarceration rate in the world, the highest number of guns per person in the world, the most expensive healthcare in the world, the most overweight population, etc, etc.
@@samoptimus4228 I personally haven't no. But there's multiple similiar systems like that around the world. If you do research, you would know. But clearly you don't like facts
@A Fels allah hu lundoori 99.77%of india has toilets, rape and criminal cases in india are less than countries like usa, england, etc u are like a toxic kid who everyone likes to beat🤣🤣
Wow, Mohenjo-daro, a city of the Indus Valley civilization, had fully functioning city wide water and sewage system, approx 2500 BCE. In modern day Pakistan, where many of their near slave labour force come from, a place the Gulf States think primitive. Great place to play Hide the Princess too
@@abhinavav7770 Defending ignorance tends to make you sound ignorant! If you build a city you put in sewer , it’s not a new idea it’s been around for thousands of years (in the region)
@@tomlxyz They get most of their money through oil. It's government run and basically just prints money. Also, there are alternatives to the income tax, the 16th Amendment allowing the US government to have an income tax wasn't even passed until 1913, with methods from Modern Monetary Theory to just not spending much money to Nationalized businesses.
@@Minecraftian2345432 funding the government and public infrastructure through oil is essentially just giving universal hand outs and it creates an unsustainable economy that's unable to be self reliant
@@Minecraftian2345432 You can go back to tax levels before 1900 but then you're gonna have the living standards of that time. All of the comforts of today rest on the fundament of what the government finances through taxes. Heavy tax cuts require heavy cuts on these. And privatization doesn't change anything, it still would need to be paid, although given that the government is much bigger than any company it can operate those things much more efficiently on scale than a company, which if it was that big would be a monopoly which in contrast to the government the public would have no say in in how it operates
@@tomlxyz The standard of living has increased due to the steady march of technology and industry. The cost of formerly luxury goods such as computers, microwaves, fridges, televisions, and the like have fallen as technology has advanced. Also, while in practice governments that rely on oil revenue often use that money to fund handouts to the populace to garner votes, which goes especially poorly when heavily leveraged by promising a future dollar amount of oil to a bank for a loan today fails spectacularly when the price of oil falls such as with Venezuela, Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy and as such has no need to pander to voters as there are no voters. However, the reliance on only oil is unstable which is why the Saudi's have been trying to diversify their economy with tourism and the like. As for the government being able to run industry more efficiently due to economies of scale, that's a mixed bag. They can exploit economies of scales, however without any incentive to improve or reduce costs bureaucratic costs soar and either quality of service and/or cost is generally ignored. Elon Musk reduced the cost of spaceflight ten fold in but a few years while NASA kept to the old ways for decades. The DMV and the TSA are widely reviled but as they are monopolies everyone must use them. Utilites are granted government enforced monopolies, and I'm sure you know how people feel about companies like Comcast. While economies of scale can reduce price, like with Rockefeller's Standard Oil, they also generally result in bigger issues, e.g. Standard Oil, especially when government enforced. They only tend to remain good for the consumer while someone who cares about doing good and philanthropy above profits or popularity remains in control which is not a stable system.
My experience of Saudi and UAE is pretty much of the finale of 2001 A Space Odyssey where Dave finds himself in a palatial room but when he takes a book from the bookshelf and tries to open it, he can't. He discovers that his hosts, although they tried to copy surroundings that he would be familiar with, do not understand the underlying complexity of human existence. So is it with Dubai. Build a city in the desert but not understand that it is the whole package that makes a great city. It has to include adequate sewers and an adequate sewage treatment plant. That is why you have a functioning Government and not a Monarchy running the show. By the way, their problems don't end with the sewer installation. Al Aweer STP has some major issues and they haven't even started addressing those.
@A Fels As much as I agree with you that democratic systems can fail, they are much less dependent on a principal with good intentions. So, in my opinion they are the more stable systems. In regard of the austrian watercolour painter: he didn't change a monarchy into a republic, that was done after the first World War when the allies forced Wilhelm II into exile. He capitalized on several factors: poverty of the masses, lust for revenge, militarism.. to get enough voters. But I think G Slim got the picture of Dubai right: A Face with much makeup and a dirty underbelly.
It’s because the Emirates are run by Sheiks (basically little kings) that are too busy trying to expand their Indian worker slave labor program to get a proper sewage system
@@dominictaylor7935 That's basically every single South Asian country. Here in pakistan, we got drivers that literally BEEP AT EVERYTHING. Even at traffic stops.
So, they are building a new high tech sewage system with six years of build and disruption that they expect to be sustainable for only 25 years after completion?
Assuming they actually finish it on time and don't need another bail out after covid-19 halted everything. This is what happens when you don't build the country from the ground up and go straight to skyskrapers.
The video meant the sewer system will have excess capacity to accommodate Dubai's growth and expansion for the next 25 years, without requiring more sewer system investment/construction. Not that it will only last 25 years.
@@AaronCMounts Still 25 years of anticipated capacity is not a long time. They really should've built it to handle Dubai's growth for the next 30-40 years.
Rich people usually eat less unless they are in wwe. Brain works good when the body is slim. If we got fat, then blood go less to brain, also brain get more work to manage the body. So smart people are usually slim.
rich people eat more veggies, whole grain and protein. Not a lot of filler like bread, pasta and rice that poor people eat which makes them eat and poop more.
The entire charade Dubai does in regards to its infrastructure reminds me of this quote about Chernobyl: "Really, this whole thing (the clean up) would be an engineering wonder and a source of national pride...if it wasn't being used to alleviate an engineering disaster and national embarrassment."
@You can't handle the truth "islamists" there are no radicals here, and we are damn close to your liberal ass america, so much that the neighbouring arab states hate us. plus the natives are such a minority compared to immigrants and tourists that you almost never see any of them.
@@hammyjammy you do realise that being close to their "liberal ass America" isn't the reason why other Arab countries hate the fucking UAE right? Please get your facts straight
So, to save some money, they didn’t cut back on gold finishes and other luxury matters or anything like that, they just decided that everyone in the world’s tallest building should do the equivalent of pooping in a glorified bucket. Pardon the pun but that is a really crappy idea and whomever suggested it needs a boot put up their sewage outflow
It's shortsighted, and it may have been cheaper in the short term, but now they are reclaiming that water for payback. Imagine the time and money that can be saved doing things right the first time.
@A Fels The fact Dubai has built such an amazing city without the need for city planners and bureaucracy tells me everything I need to know. When government gets in the way with all its regulations nothing gets done. Dubai is a great city and the UAE one of the better countries in the Middle East. It is a great place.
@You can't handle the truth What? You can say a lot about New York and California, but they don't keep literal slaves to build their cities. And "lefty utopia" is the exact opposite of what you're describing.
This is what happens when a maximum of wealth is spent with a minimum of education. 35 k people is the equivalent of a small city. Transporting the amount of raw sewage water of 35k people by truck is much more expensive then a wwtp. You can only justify it with a short term emergency. By the way: hauling the water away by truck causes also higher costs for infrastructure. Not for the sewer system but for roads and their maintenance. Gulf arabs are not known for any engineering tradition, but they should have been able to hire some experts.
I was a poop road trucker. It would be very interesting from an technical standpoint. Finding the septic tanks, the characters, gold I agree. And everyone loves you when the septic truck shows up! You are tasked with finding unmarked places you'd never get to see as a regular person, like locked gates revealing hidden and secret compunds, steep mountain backwoods, riverside industrial parks, civic arenas. Facinating education.
Perhaps an underground river of sewage that runs miles into the desert and then filtered enough to be used for secondary water uses like greening the desert would be a good idea
There was ongoing renovation to the 125th floor for additions to the skydeck when I visited. Granted maybe you were there more recently but I saw zero structurally cosmetic issues in 2015. I'm sure upkeeping every little bit though, yeah something's going to go missing here and there though haha.
No it’s not lol. It is however, sinking. Emaar has gone to great lengths to cover up all the sinking structures in the business bay/downtown area. I’ve seen reporters get fired for even asking questions about it.
I knew a guy who did 'pipe cam' checks in their sewers. He said the pipes were rubber lined and unbelievably not gross - which is not what I expected. They flew him over from Australia regularly and he was extremely wealthy from it.
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Well that was interesting. I live in Downtown Dubai (about 5 mins from the Burj Khalifa) and my wife and I swear every evening at one of these lovely trucks that rocks up at the building opposite every night just after we put the baby to bed (I swear it bloody waits for us!) and ask ourselves why the hell it's necessary. What I love is that Dubai continues to build in Downtown despite this problem (and absolutely no shortage of housing in the city) and the fact that we're still four years away from a solution (assuming this video's numbers are still correct). Well done everyone.
For those of you who haven't been to a barren desert, sewage is never a priority. You just need basic digging skills, and preferably a smooth stone to clean up after yourself.
This has nothing to do with rich people per say. It has to do with arrogant dictators that are too busy expanding their slave labor program to get a proper sewage system.
@@abhinavav7770 he means that if it were not for the invention of cars and oil-consuming vehicles, oil wouldn't be as valuable as today, making the Arabian countries less rich or maybe dirt poor.
So the building is 1.5 billion dollars, but the sewage system upgrade is 8 billion dollars. Seeing that they now have the budget to do an upgrade that costs 5 times the original project, It was probably the right decision to build the building first
A little information for the people who don't live in Dubai, the trucks stopped a long time ago because Dubai in the 2000s and starting of 2010s was mostly empty and under construction there were only roads and desert and only now there are so many buildings and they built their plumbing systems
Right, I have yet to see or smell a poop truck in my multiple times visiting Dubai. Haven't spent enough time in the other emirates to compare how they're doing though.
%5 sales tax , %15 tourist tax , %5 municipality tax, alcohol and pork are taxed over %50, cigarettes and soft drinks are also excessively taxed.... if you think there is no tax Dubai , youre joking.
I think the author meant to really state no "Income Tax" or traditional type of tax. I think when I was at Jumeirah Emirates we had a 10% local tourism charge. I don't drink / smoke so zero issue there, but yeah there *are* taxes, for sure.
This place is the literal equivalent of letting your young children handle the checkbook. Or Harvey the homeowner building a bathroom/kitchen/house with zero experience. 1990's - "We will definitely see flying cars by 2020" 2020's - "You guys think we can just truck the poop out of here?"
The madness of this situation. In real estate development, a critical early-stage problem to solve is to ensure sewer capacity. Literally, you have to ensure you have the volume and ability to flush toilets. This is basic stuff (Literally, if you can't get pipe capacity you don't build). The fact that Burj ignored this shows that it was pure ego behind the project and nothing more. This project should have never been a thing that was built.
wouldn't have it been much cheaper to build the sewer when they constructed the roads and all other public infrastructure? putting some large concrete pipe in a hole wich you already need for road foundation and all the other facilities isn't that hard, and pumping station could have been upgraded later
Well, it might make sense to "concentrate" the solids with centrifuges. The liquid could be treated and either dumped in the Gulf or a pipeline constructed to take it well out of town. The trucks would still have to be covered but only a fraction of the present number would be needed.
As stupid as this is, trucking sewage is genuinely done in some places where it’s not economical to link up sewage systems, and instead septic tanks or storage tanks are used which sometimes need to be emptied. In this case however, this is very inefficient and wasteful and over time the trucking and road maintenance cost will be a lot less costly than a new sewer in the long time.
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You show an article at 3:20 that says 35,000 people will produce 15 tonnes of sewage per day.
15 tonnes is 30 thousand pounds. That means each person produces less than a pound of waste per day.
.85 lbs to be exact. Or 385 grams.
I maybe wrong but I would have estimated that number as being a bit higher.
y'all ???
Even native speakers don't use it in writing.
@@Lethgar_Smith are you referring to metric tons, short tons or long tonnes?
Regardless, it is too much collective poop whether measured in gr. or oz/kilo or pound...🤔😁
Good to know they are getting their shit together
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You should be in prison jusr for saying that
@@sunria3408 looks like you work for the Al Maktoums.
nice
hahahaha
"They decided that a sewage system was not necessary."
Bruh.
They literally implying our need to poop is not necessary
Hence why the rest of their country...
White death
"Thou shall not poop"
Are you guys trying to imply that pooping is necessary?
turns out dubai's greatest pride is just the tallest poop factory ever. incredible.
Never did the phrase "chrome plated turd" seem more apt! :-D
Russian chicks poops factory.
gives shit hole country a new meaning doesnt it.
Kind of a "Whiz" Khalifa, isn't it?
"We built this city with no sewer."
"We need to get rid of these orange poop trucks, any one got an idea?"
"Paint em blue"
"Give that man a raise"
More like they said, “paint em blue?”
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Dubai: “let’s only spend money on stuff people can see”
..our pm 's vision is also like these ..only show off
"From like a mile away!"
they see and smell the red trucks, profit!
Sounds like the design philosophy of China and the CCP.
Poop trucks
My sims would anger and riot in front of the town hall if I don’t implement a connected sewage system on the very first day of gameplay
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Isn't that Cities: Skylines
Well but in the Dubai DLC you can easily Level your Military and Police Suppression and e voila, nobody complains anymore :))
Imagine a game that has better quality control than a government smh lol
@@Covid-bv4hp Yes it is😅
I mean, If these people played any simcity, they would know this by heart!
YOU CANT GIVE 0 FUNDING FOR A SEWAGE SYSTEM! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
@@cleigh3796 trucks are cheaper he said.
hahahahahah i was just playing rn
@@ummerfarooq5383
He probably meant their dignity is cheaper.
Play Sim City with cheat codes so your perfectly wealthy community can grow with zero industrial, commerce, or residential taxes, and guess what? Those assholes will still complain about how high the taxes are. I think this is why they have that god mode where you can destroy the town. I mean zero taxes, and the people still complain about them. I
My initial reaction to the Dubai debt situation was that that isn't so bad. But in absence of a real infrastructure or income that's ridiculous.
They have slaves, that's why all this could even happen in such a short a!ount of time with not that money
@@PaendaTube do you have to reply to every single comment about slaves,even though the original comment has nothing to do with it?
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This is what happens when you have too much money and no R&D and want your country to be superficially on par with modern countries as fast as possible instead of growing normally and organically
While i mostly agree with u, i would like to introduce the dubai lightbulb as a counter example. These lightbulbs are made by phillips and only sold in dubai bc they are so over engineered that they provide vastly superior energy efficiency and will last 10 to 15 years. In other words its hard to make a profit off of they bc they last so damn long.
@@TheFirebird123456 I don't see how this is a counter example considering the Phillips is an American company...so really, UAE is still relying on other countries to do anything.
EDIT: OKAY, OKAY! I get it, Philips is a dutch company, I got corrected on this enough times, stop sending me messages telling I was wrong on this, I get it.
@@TheFirebird123456 but Dubai doesn't produce the lightbulb. Philips does
yep, that's pretty much the gulf arab states
@@TheFirebird123456 Are you talking about LED-type lightbulbs? Perhaps Fillips still could make enough profit from that if they sell them like at 10 times higher price than usual ones. That is how led type lightbulb business works.
Kind of poetic how they've built this monument to excess and it is literally full of shit.
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@Indian Streetshietters the kardashians and Tess Holiday exist, and yet you shit post about Indians? Boring
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Indian Streetshietters this whole video is
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Burj Khalifa - the world's largest septic tank.
Dubai*, the worlds largest septic tank.
@@AshTronaut99 *The World, the universes largest septic tank.
I believe cesspool is more accurate.
Everybody has poop in them.
It has no sewage system ?
I love how the article at 3:19 uses grams to make the number look bigger. As if 7000 kg or 7 tons of shit didn't sound impressive enough
pretty sure only america uses pounds and ounces everyone uses grams/liters.
"... in a city as modern as Dubai..."
I don't know man, there are ruins of cities with better infrastructure.
There are republicans more modern than Dubai.
The ruins of carthage are better structured than Dubai lmao.
@@Bacony_Cakes xDDDD
Dubai was built with the focus on tourism. It's a theme park where everyone has a Ferrari or a Lambo and where clout chasers live
@@Legion849 And it was built by essentially slaves! Wheeeee!
Meanwhile in Oman: Muscat is a beautiful city with traditional Arabic architecture and a fantastic waste-water and sewage treatment system. Muscat is like the anti-Dubai
I visited muscat, it was beautiful but i gotta say it was a bit depressing idk like the sun was just different there 😂😂
@@sumaiya771 I liked it and the people were very friendly. Plus, the Omani aren't nearly as racist as the other people of the Gulf states
@@rumrunner8019 i understand, so u dont live there anymore?
@@sumaiya771 I just visited there and Dubai and I found Dubai to be a big shopping mall where everything was fake.
@@rumrunner8019 I live in Dubai and im not sure why you found it unpleasant , but its not the same experience for all so✌
"Dubai is a tasteless parody of everything wrong with modern humanity" - Adam Something
I remember that video, really good
@Sahil Singh The day before tomorrow 🤔. That’s today isn’t it?
Im after adam too
@Sahil Singh That’s the day before YESTERDAY.
@Sahil Singh you could've avoided that by saying "2 days ago" like a normal person lmao
Anyone in the Navy who has been on a deployment and pulls into Dubai knows the first thing you smell getting off the boat is shit! This explains everything 😂😂😂
That's bullcrap
I have not once from the people that visited Dubai heard this. In Paris on the other hand....
whoever brought the idea to skip the sewage system is a genius and needs to be promoted 👏
It was their dictator
@@AndrewRayGorman King*
No one skipped the sewage system. It's their... but the load is surpassing its capacity due to the unexpected population growth.
@@yousef.al-assaf unexpectedly?
@@lockhart1895
They didn't expect the population to grow by 350% in just 20 years
Everyone is so engrossed in spending and feasting that they forgot that soon they are all going to poop
Lol
Hahaha....
Well some will probably do it on golden toilets 😂
This is so profound
The Madinat Jumeirah is a fantastic place to eat steak at. Highly recommend it, a bit pricey though.
They forgot about basic infustructure. It's called city planning.
it reflects a lot about the mentality behind it
Same thing in other places in the region.
Could simple be solved when every building with more than 50 people, has to have it own sewage treatment plant.
I don't know how you came with this conclusion but these are NEW buildings that ADDED to an old system and town plan and it's getting fixed over time. Not sure what's wrong with that.
Yes they wanted to short cut some things to get ahead
When a skyscraper is the embodiment of a drill sergeant's insult: "I didn't know they stack shit that high!"
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@@ThugHunter01 If they have all that, what's with the Burj Khalifa having to be unconnected from Dubai's otherwise developed sewage system?
@@byronmak7943 maybe thats some of the New improved system they started building in 2017?
They should make a new tourist attraction with a Gigantic, way bigger than built ever before, above-ground acrylic see-through sewer system! So everyone can watch all of the sewage constantly flowing from the Burj Khalifa. In that case they don't have to dig any new holes, and they can make money charging people to watch all of the crap going by!
If I went all the way to Dubai.... this would probably not be on my to-do list. But nice concept tho. They could market it to make the thing look touristy.
That’s disgusting, I love it.
@@karatechopster155 lmao
And they should include ventilation to let everyone smell the raw sewage
@@futon2345 Lmao
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Yes shit indeed
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I feel so betrayed by Richard Hammond. In all of his videos and shows about the amazing engineering of the Burj Khalifi and Burj al Arab, he never once mentioned that they are giant poop factories which require their own fleets of delivery trucks. I wonder why we never heard about those "engineering connections"?
Well, aside from the poopoo part, the engineering really is marvelous. And the show is supposed to highlight the good stuff anyway, what inspires them and how they come up with it, not the stupid stuff
@@musthaf9 hold in your poo for a week and tell me how stupid poo is. This makes Dubai an RV park.
If you tune in to watch Nat Geo and Discovery in mid 2000s Dubai was everywhere in the channeI, I had a hard time get away from all the Dubai docs they show almost all of them are about new skyscrapers and palm islands none about their sewage system.
@@mikemotorbike4283 lol, what I meant is that the dysfunctional sewage system is a failure, more or less. If it were to be featured in a documentary, it would be in a one titled engineering failure or something
@@barebarekun161 I remember that time, lol. I used to be so fascinated by them as a kid. Now, as someone who has to save money from time to time, I can see how impractical some of the 'architectural marvels' are.
Dubai is like the most soulless and bland city in the world. It's like a bunch of executives gathered together to figure out the most bland and corporate dystopia ever
Well that's what happens when a government is a monarchy and has bottomless pockets from all the petroleum sales.
All of this stuff probably looked cool in the drawings and nobody cared about what would need to be going on under the hood.
Instead of building generic skyscrapers they should have build stuff that shows of their culture and traditional architecture: that would have been interesting to tourists
The most luscious luxurious place on earth with barley any plumbing 🤣 brings a new whole to meaning to the rich bathe in their own riches
* barely. They will need all the plumbing as it's soon going to drown in sea water.
Gross
in 50 years of now, the whole city is a big dump place…
@@sokolum Dubai is a joke. They could have done so much good with the money, and they bild a city in the desert? Wtf
@@felixsauter5218 stop disrespect
This is what happens when you have no long-term plans beyond "build as much as possible and as fast as possible."
Sounds like you're talking about Florida.
@@mr.duckplucker5353 Cubans live there. Cuba is paradise. They still drive unspoiled classic American muscle cars while pasty capitalist white boys have mod them out
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Allah lives in burj khalifa
Bro.. you don't know anything about Dubai. please come and see it.. how futuristic the place in fact is
Imagine the smell with that desert heat
that`s why the buildings there have 40+ stories
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I didn’t even think about that…. Lambo’s don’t have that Tesla bio-air-filtration feature
Ye no shit, We were driving past it and my cousin told me it stinks.
I live in Dubai, it’s unbearable…
Dubai is an entire city depicting the "more money than sense or taste" stereotype.
U just salty for some reason. U must hate that arabs r wealthy
@@ameen7538 Nah, I disagree. Criticism does not equal "salty". My point was despite all their wealth they still don't have proper plumbing or a sewer system. It's funny.
Why doesn't Dubai build a giant biogas plant? With all that sheet, they can power up a large portion of their cities! Also the spent fuel makes good fertilizer
Yes! And the desert outside the city is so expansive and empty that the smell wouldn't bother anyone. You should get hired by the Dubai government.
@@alpha-ky2ms Thanks!
Might work if there is a sewage system. But after all the effort transferring poop around, it's probably just cheaper to use solar.
That idea is way too smart for a ruler of dubai. Making stupid decisions is a must for "correct" city planning.
Why waste money on Biogas plants when it’s not a tourist attraction? Dubai doesn’t concern itself with common sense city planning. Case in point, Bhuj Khalifa, palm islands, world islands, making glass buildings when it’s 50C in the summer.
If you've ever been to Dubai you'd know exactly how those orange tankers smelt like when the drove by. Literally Death
Lol did they really? I’m guessing you’d close your Windows fast once you saw one approaching
@@chancellorpalpatineakathes6130 trust me when I say it wouldn't have helped.
Those poor truck drivers...
@You can't handle the truth you just couldn't help yourself, could you?
@You can't handle the truth you just couldn't help yourself, could you?
imagine these trucks get into a crash
What a shit show!
Get the fck out off there
I can smell it
Can't sewage be chemically changed into manure.
there would be a lush tropical oasis in that area from all the fertilizer
3:28 "Seven thousand killograms of waste per day"
- Let's just call that 7 tons of pure shit & piss
No it contains other stuff like toilet water and grey water
@@caspernicus5822 he said ading on water it raises to 15 tones per day .. witch still feels wrong becouse 15 tones is about one truckload 🤔
Please sir, keep this professional.
They couldn’t find a sewage system able to take the momentum of a turd flushed on the 163 floor of the Burj Khalifa. As it neared light speed when it touched base on the first curve at ground level, it just carried straight on down and damaged the foundations.
@Rockydennis Presents Terminal velocity exists but humor also exists.
My bad that was me I haven't ate enough fiber lately and basically launched a guided atgm through the plumbing system hence the devastation to the foundation
lolool
This is hilarious
😂😂😂😂
You know what would make me more interested in going to Dubai? Human rights.
You know what would make me more interested in going to the US? Less school shootings.
@@haridaspalleeri6765 atleast we have a sewage system
@@rico2984 the fact that you would rather have a sewage system than save the kids in your school just screams American to me. Disgusting.
@UCYamxSOa06AwsxZr9vWGt0A haha us school shooting amirite guys
Grow the fuck up
@@haridaspalleeri6765 both places are shitholes
For some reason everyone in Dubai has a hard-on for the Guinness book of world records. Everything they do there is for Guinness. They have the worlds largest empty building, the worlds largest empty airport, and the worlds largest empty water fountain.
They'd cut off and eat their own feet if it was a category in the book of world records.
Is cheap world recognition. To a state desperate for recognition.
Guinness record for most shit?
Dubai airport is also busy it's not that empty
At least these arer positive records. Other countries are famous for the more negative ones:
The biggest incarceration rate in the world, the highest number of guns per person in the world, the most expensive healthcare in the world, the most overweight population, etc, etc.
Agree with most of what you say, but their airport is busy like f***
The research facility cities built in Antarctica have their own sustainable sewage system. Really makes you think.
Yeah, but they don't have 35,000 people there
@@xboxgorgo18 neither they've normal climate
@@samoptimus4228 climate and sewage has little to do with each other. On the other hand, number of people have a lot to do with sewage.
@@haridaspalleeri6765 mate have you build a sewage system underground in -20-30° ice?
@@samoptimus4228 I personally haven't no. But there's multiple similiar systems like that around the world. If you do research, you would know. But clearly you don't like facts
Imagine not having sewerage in 2020 but they had it in Roman times 😅
It actually existed even before that 😂
Mohenjo-daro: That's cute
@A Fels allah hu lundoori 99.77%of india has toilets, rape and criminal cases in india are less than countries like usa, england, etc u are like a toxic kid who everyone likes to beat🤣🤣
@@aloknegi5831 how many of those toilets have running water though?
@@OblivionWonderlust every in my village every.even money is being given to build house under pradhan mantri aawas yojna.
So basically what I’m hearing is that Dubai is making more vanity projects to attract to tourist to fund its vanity projects
No, just trucking mud.
@@williamboyle8918 *Feces
@@royalteluis623 Blowing Mud
Wow, Mohenjo-daro, a city of the Indus Valley civilization, had fully functioning city wide water and sewage system, approx 2500 BCE. In modern day Pakistan, where many of their near slave labour force come from, a place the Gulf States think primitive. Great place to play Hide the Princess too
2500 BCE*
And 4500 years later 42% of Pakistani population doesnt have access to basic sanitation.
@@ZaasKenar but you can't use that kind of system in the modern world, can you?
@@abhinavav7770 OOps.sorry, too many zero's!!!
@@abhinavav7770 Defending ignorance tends to make you sound ignorant! If you build a city you put in sewer , it’s not a new idea it’s been around for thousands of years (in the region)
I like the idea of low to no taxes, but their plan is literally just: build a bunch of random shit that looks good in instagram photos.
Low to no taxes is simply unsustainable
@@tomlxyz They get most of their money through oil. It's government run and basically just prints money. Also, there are alternatives to the income tax, the 16th Amendment allowing the US government to have an income tax wasn't even passed until 1913, with methods from Modern Monetary Theory to just not spending much money to Nationalized businesses.
@@Minecraftian2345432 funding the government and public infrastructure through oil is essentially just giving universal hand outs and it creates an unsustainable economy that's unable to be self reliant
@@Minecraftian2345432 You can go back to tax levels before 1900 but then you're gonna have the living standards of that time. All of the comforts of today rest on the fundament of what the government finances through taxes. Heavy tax cuts require heavy cuts on these. And privatization doesn't change anything, it still would need to be paid, although given that the government is much bigger than any company it can operate those things much more efficiently on scale than a company, which if it was that big would be a monopoly which in contrast to the government the public would have no say in in how it operates
@@tomlxyz The standard of living has increased due to the steady march of technology and industry. The cost of formerly luxury goods such as computers, microwaves, fridges, televisions, and the like have fallen as technology has advanced. Also, while in practice governments that rely on oil revenue often use that money to fund handouts to the populace to garner votes, which goes especially poorly when heavily leveraged by promising a future dollar amount of oil to a bank for a loan today fails spectacularly when the price of oil falls such as with Venezuela, Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy and as such has no need to pander to voters as there are no voters. However, the reliance on only oil is unstable which is why the Saudi's have been trying to diversify their economy with tourism and the like. As for the government being able to run industry more efficiently due to economies of scale, that's a mixed bag. They can exploit economies of scales, however without any incentive to improve or reduce costs bureaucratic costs soar and either quality of service and/or cost is generally ignored. Elon Musk reduced the cost of spaceflight ten fold in but a few years while NASA kept to the old ways for decades. The DMV and the TSA are widely reviled but as they are monopolies everyone must use them. Utilites are granted government enforced monopolies, and I'm sure you know how people feel about companies like Comcast. While economies of scale can reduce price, like with Rockefeller's Standard Oil, they also generally result in bigger issues, e.g. Standard Oil, especially when government enforced. They only tend to remain good for the consumer while someone who cares about doing good and philanthropy above profits or popularity remains in control which is not a stable system.
My experience of Saudi and UAE is pretty much of the finale of 2001 A Space Odyssey where Dave finds himself in a palatial room but when he takes a book from the bookshelf and tries to open it, he can't. He discovers that his hosts, although they tried to copy surroundings that he would be familiar with, do not understand the underlying complexity of human existence. So is it with Dubai. Build a city in the desert but not understand that it is the whole package that makes a great city. It has to include adequate sewers and an adequate sewage treatment plant. That is why you have a functioning Government and not a Monarchy running the show. By the way, their problems don't end with the sewer installation. Al Aweer STP has some major issues and they haven't even started addressing those.
@A Fels The monarchies you list are all constitutional monarchies. You cannot compare those with the system in Dubai.
@A Fels As much as I agree with you that democratic systems can fail, they are much less dependent on a principal with good intentions. So, in my opinion they are the more stable systems. In regard of the austrian watercolour painter: he didn't change a monarchy into a republic, that was done after the first World War when the allies forced Wilhelm II into exile. He capitalized on several factors: poverty of the masses, lust for revenge, militarism.. to get enough voters. But I think G Slim got the picture of Dubai right: A Face with much makeup and a dirty underbelly.
It still blows my mind that this was allowed to happen, and this city is suppose to bring rich people in.
Rich People who are full of 💩 in more ways than one. 🤣
@@andrewtodaro2874 why this hate?
It’s because the Emirates are run by Sheiks (basically little kings) that are too busy trying to expand their Indian worker slave labor program to get a proper sewage system
like any other country
@@danarsarkawt2694 Idk about you. But my city has plumbing because we are not a literal shit hole.
"It all depends on how many people are interested in visiting the city."
*video uploaded in February 2020*
Oh...
The month before kung flu become a thing
@@ferdyhoshigakitube careful....to some your comment might be racist
This video didn't age well in a covid world
@@hhforever it's another name
@@OpTubeShorts its still a reference to a certain racial stereotype and can be implied on blaming of the virus to a certain race.
I can confirm this is true. I used to live just outside where they would go, it was not nice and they were so loud in the morning!
And smelly, I assume?
@@doggo_woo tbf, no. I couldn't remember the smell but the noise... omg. It's like every drivers hand was stuck to the horn.
@@dominictaylor7935 That's basically every single South Asian country. Here in pakistan, we got drivers that literally BEEP AT EVERYTHING. Even at traffic stops.
@@doggo_woo I can confirm this is false, I've been here for 3 months and there are no shit truck, the whole city is connected to sewage
So, they are building a new high tech sewage system with six years of build and disruption that they expect to be sustainable for only 25 years after completion?
Assuming they actually finish it on time and don't need another bail out after covid-19 halted everything.
This is what happens when you don't build the country from the ground up and go straight to skyskrapers.
@@Miyakolover that's the cost of shortcuts.
The video meant the sewer system will have excess capacity to accommodate Dubai's growth and expansion for the next 25 years, without requiring more sewer system investment/construction. Not that it will only last 25 years.
@@AaronCMounts Still 25 years of anticipated capacity is not a long time. They really should've built it to handle Dubai's growth for the next 30-40 years.
@@VULVOLINE009 As soon as oil run dry,
They forgot that Rich people eat more and poop more 😂
Pretty much sure that's not true.
Rich people usually eat less unless they are in wwe. Brain works good when the body is slim. If we got fat, then blood go less to brain, also brain get more work to manage the body. So smart people are usually slim.
They forgor 💀
rich people eat more veggies, whole grain and protein. Not a lot of filler like bread, pasta and rice that poor people eat which makes them eat and poop more.
Or rich people are just full of shit 🤷♂️😂
The entire charade Dubai does in regards to its infrastructure reminds me of this quote about Chernobyl: "Really, this whole thing (the clean up) would be an engineering wonder and a source of national pride...if it wasn't being used to alleviate an engineering disaster and national embarrassment."
That's a chilling quote
Lmao that's the definition of "spot on". Who said it?
Architect: *Finishes presentation
Engineer: So where's the sewage system?
Architect: What sewage system?
It’s going to be a crap situation when Dubai has a financial crisis if the sewer hasn’t been finished.
Show yourself out.
@You can't handle the truth "islamists" there are no radicals here, and we are damn close to your liberal ass america, so much that the neighbouring arab states hate us. plus the natives are such a minority compared to immigrants and tourists that you almost never see any of them.
@@hammyjammy you do realise that being close to their "liberal ass America" isn't the reason why other Arab countries hate the fucking UAE right? Please get your facts straight
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So, to save some money, they didn’t cut back on gold finishes and other luxury matters or anything like that, they just decided that everyone in the world’s tallest building should do the equivalent of pooping in a glorified bucket. Pardon the pun but that is a really crappy idea and whomever suggested it needs a boot put up their sewage outflow
The ones using the buckets are the problem
It's shortsighted, and it may have been cheaper in the short term, but now they are reclaiming that water for payback. Imagine the time and money that can be saved doing things right the first time.
Last time I checked, some people do poop on actual golden toilets there.
They could always limit their pooping.
@@ummerfarooq5383 jajajajaja
Those truck lines look like something straight out of Cities Skylines.
Needs more flower pattern cars mixed in
@HoboMaster
Just replace the water in the river and it’ll flow right out.
The planners forgot about the traffic manger mod
@@wavyy
Well their fake islands are sinking so they definitely forgot to turn on infinite soil.
You had me laughing for real 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
When you upgrade your city to level 99 but still have level 3 sewage
Literally " shit happens" in Dubai
Ahhh the good old days, when you could just take a dump in the sand.
A mug of water in hand
@@RohanSanjith nah, they rub paper 😂
I'm sure this is doing wonders for the environment.
i feel the more advanced we get, the more were actually going backwards into the middles ages
No it's just the countries with middle ages mentality which are trying to look advanced without actually being advanced.
*prehistoric times
Even the indus river valley civilization as old as the mammoths had a sewage system
They are not advanced, they are just rich. How can you say advancement sets us back? That is a contradiction!
@پیاده نظام خان fake futurism
All that money and nobody thought about hiring City planners to you know, plan building a City.
nah they knew they needed it, but didn't want to go into more debt
When you hire city planners and the government the costs go up and nothing gets done. They did it the right way around.
@A Fels The fact Dubai has built such an amazing city without the need for city planners and bureaucracy tells me everything I need to know. When government gets in the way with all its regulations nothing gets done. Dubai is a great city and the UAE one of the better countries in the Middle East. It is a great place.
City planners are probably not as easy to keep as slaves.
@You can't handle the truth What? You can say a lot about New York and California, but they don't keep literal slaves to build their cities.
And "lefty utopia" is the exact opposite of what you're describing.
This is what happens when a maximum of wealth is spent with a minimum of education. 35 k people is the equivalent of a small city. Transporting the amount of raw sewage water of 35k people by truck is much more expensive then a wwtp. You can only justify it with a short term emergency. By the way: hauling the water away by truck causes also higher costs for infrastructure. Not for the sewer system but for roads and their maintenance. Gulf arabs are not known for any engineering tradition, but they should have been able to hire some experts.
Ice Truckers show is getting old. Let's have a Poop Trucker show.
BAHAHAHAAH!!
That's a riot!
No shit!
I was a poop road trucker. It would be very interesting from an technical standpoint. Finding the septic tanks, the characters, gold I agree. And everyone loves you when the septic truck shows up! You are tasked with finding unmarked places you'd never get to see as a regular person, like locked gates revealing hidden and secret compunds, steep mountain backwoods, riverside industrial parks, civic arenas. Facinating education.
"Why Dubai Has to Truck Poop"
**Starts talking about gdp**
Lmao IKR
Perhaps an underground river of sewage that runs miles into the desert and then filtered enough to be used for secondary water uses like greening the desert would be a good idea
Just pipeline it out 100 miles and dump it.
You're not an engineer are you?
@@reallyhappenings5597 basically
Reusing waste water makes too much sense. No way those idiots would ever do it.
@@routinelylazy8682 lol
Dubai. a place that never fails to disappoint.
Amen xD
Whoever said that one can't polish a turd had never been to Dubai.
@@twistedyogert i have been there, unfortunately. I still feel a bit dirty.
If you look at the facade of the building from the observation deck as I did. You’ll notice missing panels and bolts. It’s falling apart
I'm sorry what
Seriously??!
There was ongoing renovation to the 125th floor for additions to the skydeck when I visited. Granted maybe you were there more recently but I saw zero structurally cosmetic issues in 2015. I'm sure upkeeping every little bit though, yeah something's going to go missing here and there though haha.
That’s unlikely
No it’s not lol. It is however, sinking. Emaar has gone to great lengths to cover up all the sinking structures in the business bay/downtown area. I’ve seen reporters get fired for even asking questions about it.
Imagine those trucks having an accident on the road...
M Srcl
What did I just imagine 💀💀
This is what happens when dictators have "visions".
2030 baby, I hope I leave this country before that date.
@@co2_os where are you going?
I knew a guy who did 'pipe cam' checks in their sewers. He said the pipes were rubber lined and unbelievably not gross - which is not what I expected. They flew him over from Australia regularly and he was extremely wealthy from it.
If something happened that prevented sewage from being collected from the tower for a few days, I imagine it will be completely abandoned.
martial law covid lockdown edict: only shit trucks allowed to roam
World's Tallest Chocolate Fountain...
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I just began to see your videos pop up in my recommendations. I wished I would have ran across your channel much sooner. You seem like a very promising youtuber. Keep up the great work!
Thank you Lance!
Well that was interesting. I live in Downtown Dubai (about 5 mins from the Burj Khalifa) and my wife and I swear every evening at one of these lovely trucks that rocks up at the building opposite every night just after we put the baby to bed (I swear it bloody waits for us!) and ask ourselves why the hell it's necessary. What I love is that Dubai continues to build in Downtown despite this problem (and absolutely no shortage of housing in the city) and the fact that we're still four years away from a solution (assuming this video's numbers are still correct). Well done everyone.
"rocks up" must be aussie slang
@@GUITARTIME2024 if you want I can give you 40 pesos
@@GUITARTIME2024 Nope
@@Dashman100 we don't use it in America or Canada, and I've never heard it over in UK.
Don't worry about 5 years after they finish it the ocean will wash away half the city anyway.
For those of you who haven't been to a barren desert, sewage is never a priority. You just need basic digging skills, and preferably a smooth stone to clean up after yourself.
we're talking about a building that has 35,000 people in it. probably can't just dig a hole to get rid of the poop.
You can say that about any small community with spread out houses: just poop in the backyard
Imagine no gas for a couple of weeks, or drivers went on a strike ☠️
It's not france😂
I love how a few days ago this video had around 300k views and the after that “Dubai is a joke” video it jumped up to 1 million
Rich people are so smart.
This has nothing to do with rich people per say. It has to do with arrogant dictators that are too busy expanding their slave labor program to get a proper sewage system.
I mean they are rich for a reason.
@@deadsec_xz1541 They are lucky. Because europe invented car and petroleum.
@@Dashman100 petroleum can't be invented
@@abhinavav7770 he means that if it were not for the invention of cars and oil-consuming vehicles, oil wouldn't be as valuable as today, making the Arabian countries less rich or maybe dirt poor.
Imagine hijacking a shit tanker because you thought it's filled with oil 😂
So the building is 1.5 billion dollars, but the sewage system upgrade is 8 billion dollars.
Seeing that they now have the budget to do an upgrade that costs 5 times the original project, It was probably the right decision to build the building first
"One man's poop is another man's treasure" - Joe Biden
“My butt’s been wiped”- Joe Biden
And right he is
… *smells the kid*
"Brown poop smells just as bad as White poop" - Boe Jiden
A little information for the people who don't live in Dubai, the trucks stopped a long time ago because Dubai in the 2000s and starting of 2010s was mostly empty and under construction there were only roads and desert and only now there are so many buildings and they built their plumbing systems
Right, I have yet to see or smell a poop truck in my multiple times visiting Dubai. Haven't spent enough time in the other emirates to compare how they're doing though.
It hasn't vanished completely, but I'd say I could only one truck occassionally.
%5 sales tax , %15 tourist tax , %5 municipality tax, alcohol and pork are taxed over %50, cigarettes and soft drinks are also excessively taxed.... if you think there is no tax Dubai , youre joking.
Pork in dubai? They are muslim country arent they how does the king of dubai allow?
@@Man_from_UNCLE ?? Pork allowed in dubai for non muslims?
@@Man_from_UNCLE damn bro ty for the info i never even imagined this could be the case
I think the author meant to really state no "Income Tax" or traditional type of tax. I think when I was at Jumeirah Emirates we had a 10% local tourism charge. I don't drink / smoke so zero issue there, but yeah there *are* taxes, for sure.
@@xiao4645 yeah just don't cross the religious police, they'll throw you in the dungeons
Engineer: We don’t have enough facility to store all the waste.
Architect: Welp…Shit.
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There is sales tax in the UAE. It was introduced in 2018/2019
And VAT
@@EverettBurger Same thing dummy
How about income tax
@@ogone1465 we dont have income tax
@@sultanaljaberi9377 living the good life
This place is the literal equivalent of letting your young children handle the checkbook. Or Harvey the homeowner building a bathroom/kitchen/house with zero experience.
1990's - "We will definitely see flying cars by 2020"
2020's - "You guys think we can just truck the poop out of here?"
This explained things better than other videos slamming Dubai, and it's leadership, with some merit but without proper investigation.
Now whenever Dubai is mentioned poop trucks flashes before my eyes.
The madness of this situation. In real estate development, a critical early-stage problem to solve is to ensure sewer capacity. Literally, you have to ensure you have the volume and ability to flush toilets. This is basic stuff (Literally, if you can't get pipe capacity you don't build). The fact that Burj ignored this shows that it was pure ego behind the project and nothing more. This project should have never been a thing that was built.
Perfect video to watch while having dinner 🤩
😂
Hahahahaha 🥲🥲🥲
UAE does have tax, it introduced 5% VAT several years ago.
4:43 The hubris in believing you can turn the desert into the most "sustainable city" on the planet is absolutely breathtaking.
wouldn't have it been much cheaper to build the sewer when they constructed the roads and all other public infrastructure? putting some large concrete pipe in a hole wich you already need for road foundation and all the other facilities isn't that hard, and pumping station could have been upgraded later
Well, it might make sense to "concentrate" the solids with centrifuges. The liquid could be treated and either dumped in the Gulf or a pipeline constructed to take it well out of town. The trucks would still have to be covered but only a fraction of the present number would be needed.
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“Dozens”? Bro that was at least 100 trucks
At least they're gathering it up and treating it.
Many of the world's older cities learned this lesson the hard way.
What a shame. Dubai was a nice little town 30 years ago. Only a couple buildings 6 stories tall.
I'm sorry, but Dubai is more of a joke than a "modern city"
It's smart. Focus on the selling. Fix the problems when you make money. Sewage is a DLC for Dubai lmao
As stupid as this is, trucking sewage is genuinely done in some places where it’s not economical to link up sewage systems, and instead septic tanks or storage tanks are used which sometimes need to be emptied. In this case however, this is very inefficient and wasteful and over time the trucking and road maintenance cost will be a lot less costly than a new sewer in the long time.
This is like someone who buys a car, but can’t afford the gas, insurance, maintenance, and everything else about owning a car.
I always knew Dubai was full of shit I just didn't really knew how incredibly and literally right I was.
😂😂😂😂😂
Dubai is a poor representation of a large rich city
Am I the only one who got this in their recommendations after watching Adam something's video on Dubai?
same
no. you are not.