This month , the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) has launch newfangled initiatives and an international research prize to germinate technologies that can help quench the Persian Gulf ’s hunger .
The UAE capital Abu Dhabi receives anaverage annual rainfallof around 75 mm ( 2.95 inches ) . Despite this , the countryconsumes more waterper capita than any other country , around 82 pct above the global norm . This is only going to get spoiled , with an increasing urban population who have already arise a predilection for extremist - luxury living , complete with piddle parks and dead green golf course of instruction .
On top of this , climate change is take the part towards an even hotter and dry future . Astudy in Octoberlast year reported that the Persian Gulf could be so hot and ironic that it will be uninhabitable by 2071 .
In an exertion to suffer its demand for water system , the country has award $ 5 million ( £ 3.5 million ) to researchers from Germany , Japan and the UEA to formulate cloud - draining technologies .
The majority of the UAE ’s landscape is sandy desert.Image credit : Tom Cummins / Shutterstock
The Guardianhas reported that this money will help prepare the “ tender swarm seeding ” proficiency currently used in the dry wintertime months . This method increase water condensation within the cloud . airplane are flown just below cloud level , where they release over a hundred flares loaded with subatomic particle of potassium chloride and Na chloride . updraft carry these particles into the clouds and cater water vapor with something to condense on . Once hard enough , these globules of condensed water vapour fall down as rain .
The grant scientist will attempt to develop applied science to raise the efficiency of this proficiency . The enquiry will let in cloud constitution and algorithm - head cloud tracking , while scientists from university in UAE will develop nanotechnology to increase piddle abridgment .
This twelvemonth has already see new motions to help conserve water . Abu Dhabi has started accuse natives for their water use for the first meter and has increase the existing fees for expats . Numerous hotels and leisure facilities will also be anticipate to set off reusing their water for redden can .
[ H / T : The Guardian ]
