I always cunfused when people said qatar un paid their workers...have you ever research that qatar has very little population and more than 80% population are foreigner specially from south asia. Btw, most of qatar project was built by foreign company from europe, america, china and south asia..so how can you blame qatar for laborer issue..why dont blame those company.. Adidas and nike made their shoes in third world country. They paid their workers so little..so you blame the country or the company ?..
Wow. Great project. But for desalination, instead of burning natural gas, solar energy can be used. Qatar is blessed with that. Good wishes from India.
Yaa after long time my Qatari people got some sense of humor from past 10 years I have been thinking what if other countries fight with my qatar it will run out of food and water and now the time has come but it's not too late may Allah SWT protect my qatar and bless it with happiness ameen
The British government should apologize to the Indian people for brutally killing innocent civilians in the Jallianwala bagh massacre in India in the year 1919.....
Maybe a muslim man should keep quiet about demanding an apology for the killing of innocent civilians when his brothers are killing so may innocent civilians all around the world.
good for them. Am appalled by the comments below!!Obviously inhuman working conditions are common in the middle east but to criticise only qatar is just wrong!
The hydro-engineers have already made calculations on the rates of evaporation at different Qatari climates, wind intensity, densities of the water, ambient temps etc. All parameters have been taken into account. Plus, the total output per day of the desalination plants would suffice, or even exceed the reservoir capacity.
@@crankshaft5867 In these kinds of project the desalination plants max output would be more than the total hold capacity of the reservoir, this is to make up for any shortfalls. Demand can go up if there is for example extra usage from big industry or construction projects.
Build these types of projects around Africa and then that will provide deserts with water while keeping the ocean level below so it doesn't flood cities. Win win situation
Offshore water rig instead of oil. Thought about using the pressure from deep sea pipe and piping and tapping into natural pressurised desalination. The deeper you go the more pressure, this is energy is inline with the E=MC principles (energy mass circulation) the pressure on a submersible object is extreme at depths that current rigs tap into instead of oil. The true life force of all life is based on and around Water.
So many haters here against Qatar. Does anyone of you ever being to Qatar ? I don't think so. Qatar is better than Some Western counties let alone Saudis and rest of golfs and has millions of population from acrosss the globe which they deserve to be respected.
Take it easy! They are jealous that’s all. They don’t have the $$$ nor the skill to build those mammoth projects. Build now, future much more expensive.
You won't believe Gulf has high rainfall but only for a day or 2 and will be back to normal so if they can collect all those rain water, it will also reduce the floods
For people who don't understand why people complain about slaves: In europe as example, construction workers and others get equal payments and are not some imported cheap working labor
(1). Much Kudos to the leadership and people of Qatar for ensuring that their future is safe-guarded through a multitude of infrastructural projects (roadways, urban transportation, basic utilities and alternative energy - yes, they partner with Total S.A. investing in Solar Farms) (2). For critics about modern day slavery, yes labour exploitation is unfortunately happening but this is not limited to Qatar or Middle East - we as a human race seem to do this repeated throughout our documented history. Do I condone it, absolutely not but to place the blame squarely on the Middle East region is plain unfair. (3). For skeptics raging on about religious groups; couple of facts to enlighten yourselves - (a). The labour force in Qatar is a religiously diverse group; including the Indian community which is the largest foreign population in Qatar. So absolutely no need for religious bickering or bad-mouthing. Strangely people in Qatar live in absolute peace and harmony despite the bigots from outside who seem to be making a fuss. (4). Trade between Qatar/Middle East and India or China or Europe isn't limited to Oil & Gas - these countries depend on each other what they can offer, this is Economics and Trade 101 something that has existed for centuries. So trade, commerce and exchange of money is not because of Oil & Gas favouring either the buyer or seller! Guess you guys didn't focus in School when they were teaching you this. (5). Focus on the engineering marvel, the power to dream big and the resolute to achieve it; rather than focussing on Point (2) to Point (4).
YES, desalination is expensive, energy intensive and probably not good for environment ..But were do u want them to get fresh water, should they die in the name of "saving the environment". until reverse osmosis becomes commercially sustainable ,yapping all over about environment wont help.
" And whatever good you send for you before yourselves, you will certainly find it better with Allah (God), better and greater in reward ". (Qur'an 73:20)
Los Angeles should also look into this! Japan has a decade already on this technology and now Qatar is following. It's a reasonable technology that creates jobs!
yes it is, if you have enough desalination facilities you can sustain the entire country population, cost effective question on large scale prices per cubic meter drops, but of course it will be cheaper to pump from nearest lake or river but considering your in the middle of a desert with no significant top runoff , what other options would you have ?
Yes, I heard a ted talk where the guy spoke of the minerals that were present in seawater too. He had the plant and its fuel paid for by mining the minerals in the left over salt water brine. There was Lithium, magnesium, and a few other minerals present in very profitable quantities. I am pretty sure the water and salt were free in theory after selling the minerals. Wouldn't it be amazing if we could turn mining into an industry that was regenerative rather than destructive? Mining companies turning the desert green rather than the other way around.
Plz aljazeera if u have the balls and guts do a detailed investigative documentary on the slave like conditions of expat workers who make all this happen Their pending 6 months salaries and their 3 square metre individual living spaces and their daily 2 bread 1 plate curry meals plus their 200 persons to 1 toilet facility plus ZERO healthcare access also
The workers signed papers and contracts for their salaries, if they don’t want any they should’ve not came her looking for jobs and can easily refuse them, it’s sad to see people not understand the simple concept of contracts and then blame companies for not paying them more, you accepted it, it’s no one other than you that is in fault here. Grow up and stop blaming the government for it.
And by the way, the “low salaries” are minimum wages, and it depends on the level of education “as explained by workers that i asked”, and that money isn’t that low, if converted to their home country’s currency it can get them a lot of stuff, but people are ungrateful and can’t get the idea of “you don’t need to buy a new phone if you don’t have the financing capabilities”. Seriously people should think more.
A well provides access to ground water, this is a reservoir. Construction of any kind has a negative impact on the environment. Even building a wind turbine has a negative impact. It's something that can not be prevented.
combined capacity of reservoir is just 2 million cubic meters. That's not much consider biggest reservoirs in the world have capacity of tens of billions of cubic meters. But it's a lot of desalinized water
they have money to do all this but paying workers very little salary . imaging a security in qater will work for 12 good hours for 26 days in a month and take salary of 300dollars
I have read the commentary below...folks... People who don't get paid do not create these monumental structures. Slave labor can get you so far...the difference is in quality!
+Australia hockey What are you on about? Qatar doesn't fund Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia does. Qatar introduced a draft law lately to provide worker rights and a minimum wage.
