Bringing Icebergs Project to the UAE | ||
| Journal of University of Anbar for Humanities | ||
| Article 20, Volume 2021, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 517-544 PDF (777.87 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.37653/juah.2021.171371 | ||
| Author | ||
| Rayyan Thanoon Mahmood | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The idea of bringing the icebergs scattered in Antarctica inspired the Emiratis to enter a new field and embark on a unique experience, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had previously implemented it in the 1970s but failed to carry out it. There were opportunities for the Emirates to move an iceberg to the eastern coasts of the country, in cooperation with a specialized French company, according to a specific mechanism which is being done by using the satellite to locate the carried mountain and make electronic simulations to perform this on the ground, as it was hoped that the iceberg would be brought to the Emirate of Fujairah in the middle of the year 2020, but it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic that swept the world. Those in charge in the United Arab Emirates hope that the project will achieve great benefits, the most important of which is obtaining a new source that feeds the country with the freshwater it needs, and transforming the Emirate of Fujairah into a tourist resort that attracts millions of tourists who wish to practice the hobby of skiing, and soften the region's atmosphere and make it suitable for agriculture and irrigation | ||
| Keywords | ||
| project; water transportation; icebergs; UAE | ||
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