Watch: UAE plans to solve water crisis by towing an iceberg to its coast
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Watch: UAE plans to solve water crisis by towing an iceberg to its coast
FP Staff
• May 8, 2017, 17:59:52 IST
The United Arab Emirates is planning to tow icebergs from Antarctica to solve its water crisis, according to a report in Gulf News. A Masdar city-based company — the National Advisor Bureau Limited — plans to tow the iceberg from Antarctica to the coast of the eastern emirate of Fujairah and then mine it for drinking water. ‘Project Iceberg’ is expected to start in 2018 with the transportation process taking at least one year.
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