Earlier this year I decided to visit a strange looking waste management site in Um Al Quwain – one of seven emirates in the United Arab Emirates. From satellite imagery it looked like raw sewage was being dumped in the desert, just a couple of kilometres from Um Al Quwain’s precious mangrove estuary. Access was my first problem, but after a couple of attempts I found a cross-dune route to the site and was surprised to find an extensive…
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Reed Beds: Cleaning Waste Water in the Desert
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