The Burj Dubai, world's tallest building, doesn't have a sewer system.
 

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They have to truck all the shit out.





http://boingboing.net/2011/11/08/wha...-building.html

Jesus fucking Chrtist, even with a fortune in money, the Arabs are still stupid savages.

Wonder howmuch it cost them to take that out.

Sounds a bit crap.

OMG I almost don't believe this. wouldn't it cost less to have sewage system?

now that is a true "Shit Show"! :1orglaugh

You would think someone would say "Let's build a giant pipe directly to the sewer plant". Not too bright.

A friend of mine in the Marines once tried to explain to me how nasty Iraq was. He told me you could walk down a street and up to all of the front doors. The bathrooms were always in the back of the house, and just dumped into the street behind the house - which was sort of an ally. The houses on the other side of the ally also backed up to this ally and dumped. So basically every other street would be an ally that was pretty much a river of sewage.

LMAO thats great!

PS, I was in that building last month. Amazing height.

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...29340522_n.jpg

This missing sewer system has nothing to do with not being too bright. But all to do with the wrong priorities and egos. Its more like lets make sure to have the worlds highest building first and lets look at infrastructure later.

Besides that the money to get that sewer system is not really there anymore since they almost went bankrupt if it wasnt for Abu Dhabi to bail them out :2 cents:

Oh and I dont think you can compare Dubai and Iran either.

That sounds really strange...making something biggest and don't having sewer system?wtf...

Enough there for every man, woman and child :helpme

Proof positive you can be the biggest and not the best :thumbsup

Shit happens...

what do they do with it after lol

crazy,but at least the gas is cheap and the contract worker from other countries are not expensive.

wonder where they dump it

Different cultures... what sounds and looks like being insanitary to Westerners is every day life in the East... Go there experience the culture and if you have a level of understanding / comprehension then come back here and post a valid comment that contains experience and knowledge.... If you cant be bothered to do that then hey just go back to counting your money and pulling your cock and shut the fuck up about cultures you do not understand :thumbsup

Umm yea, I'd rather not experience a culture where it's normal to have shit draining down a street..

shit pulled.

Currently Sober's house... :2 cents:

if he can afford it... :)

hope they will not dump it in the ocean, but very curious what they do with it, maybe they have some magic poo to oil converter :D

the wait line to the sewage plant is over 24 hr

most just dump it into the gulf

Sadly, I'm not surprised. :-(

That's the free market capitalist wet dream right there, Dubai. Who needs state sponsored public utilities like sewage systems when the private sector does such an efficient job of providing their own water and their own waste water removal.


The lack of proper plumbing infastructure there has nothing to do with the Arabs. Dubai is the epitome of the real estate bubble in that the majority of it has been built over the last ten years in a frenzy by hedge fund managers, derivatives traders and huge multi-national construction firms all looking to cash in on the real estate market. Why would they give a fuck about a sewage system? They got their money while the getting was good and got the fuck out.

"this guys beard turned orange, 'cause he's been soaking in it."

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When they say they have a plan for Israel........believe it!

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90% of all people in the middle east are suffering and they just keep spending billions on worthless shit

Are they going to cover Israel in turds?

shit has big value there :D

thats their sewer system. they dumped the waste to the sewage infrastructure and they turned those waste to something useful. brilliant idea that US should copy.

they use it as manure to grow food

you heard it here first!

that's a lot of shit...

In that case we should drop a nuke on the whole place now.

I am sure the town fathers will start to re-think things..

Holy fucking shit.

I am shocked....

At least it keeps all those poop truck drivers in a job

Very interesting and a long line of trucks.

GROSS: Right. So you know, you write that in Dubai they don't have like, a sewage infrastructure to support high-rises like this one. So what do they do with the sewage?

ASCHER: A variety of buildings there; some can access a municipal system, but many of them actually use trucks to take the sewage out of individual buildings. And then they wait on a queue to put it into a wastewater treatment plant. So it's a fairly primitive system.

GROSS: Well, these trucks can wait for hours and hours on line.

ASCHER: That's right. I'm told they can wait up to 24 hours before they get to the head of the queue. Now, there is a municipal system that is being invested in, and I assume will connect all of these tall buildings at some point in the near future. But they're certainly not alone. In India, many buildings are responsible for providing their own water and their own wastewater removal.

So it's, it's really ? we're very fortunate in this country that we assume we can plug into an urban system that can handle whatever waste the building produces. That's not the case everywhere else in the world.

GROSS: Well, it really illustrates one of the paradoxes of modern life, that we have these just incredible structures that reach, you know, that seem to reach to the sky. And then in a place like Dubai, you have a 24-hour-long line of trucks waiting to dispose of the waste from those buildings.

ASCHER: Right. Well, you know, you have to remember that a place like Dubai really emerged in the last 50 years. It was a sleepy, you know, Bedouin town half a century ago. And what you do is when you bring in the world's, you know, most sophisticated architects and engineers, you can literally build anything, including a building of 140 or 150 stories. But designing a municipal network of sewage treatment is, in some ways, more complex - certainly requires more money and more time to make it happen. So one just seemed to jump ahead of the other.

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcr...ryId=141858484

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ewww the shit tram

Good thing gas is cheap!

In a decade or two I see Dubai becoming the world most expensive ghost town. Once the money is gone, so will every one else there.