| Board | General.old [context] |
|---|---|
| Sender | Ganon |
| Date | Sun Jun 8 17:52:15 2014 |
| To | all |
| Subject | Burj Dubai |
| TG: Right. So you know, you write that in Dubai they dont have, like, a sewage infrastructure to support high-rises like this one. So what do they do with the sewage? KA: 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 waste water treatment plant. So its a fairly primitive system. TG: Well, these trucks can wait for hours and hours on line. KA: Thats right. Im 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 in some point in the near future, but theyre certainly not alone. In India many buildings |
