S3E15 - The Magical Substance You Need to Green a Desert Actually Comes from Antarctica
Publisher |
Antoine Walter
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Interview
Science & Medicine
Water
Categories Via RSS |
Natural Sciences
Nature
Science
Publication Date |
Sep 15, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:35:23

with 🎙️ Abdulla Alshehhi, Managing Director of National Advisor Bureau Limited, CEO of Q2 General Cleaning, and Business Support Section Head at GASCO  

💧 National Advisor Bureau Limited leverages creativity and innovation to be a leading Consultant Firm For start-up businesses & Established Companies

What we covered:

🌱 How to green a desert, you need a magical substance: Water! 

🍏 How an Idea extensively investigated in the 1970s to bring and Iceberg in the Arab peninsula may now really become feasible 

🍏 How Antarctic Icebergs may represent a sound source of water for the ever-increasing water needs of the World 

🍎 How Water Scarcity is an intricate problem, and how it is not going to ease down with Global Warming 

🛗 How Abdulla's project interacts and leverages the other initiatives around 

🍏 How he ambitions to run the first Iceberg tow to a southern hemisphere city like Perth or Cape Town 

🍏 How the first to actually tow an iceberg to a thirsty place of the world will make history. 

🍎 How iceberg water may be a welcome replacement for desalinated water, which comes with a wealth of environmental side-effects 

🍎 How the water industry reacted to the project 

🍏 How much an actual Icerberg tow would cost, and how that translates in terms of cost per gallon/liter 

🍏 How, ecologically speaking, an Iceberg tow is a drop in the ocean with limited if any environmental impact 

🌧️ How the presence of the Iceberg along the Fujairah coast may create a positive microclimate 

🍏 How the United Nations are considering the idea as an unconventional water resource

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

➡️ Send your warm regards to Abdulla Alshehhi on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdulla2alshehi/

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/the-magical-substance-you-need-to-green-a-desert-actually-comes-from-antarctica/

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