Dubai's Big Time Sewage Problem

By Jack Brummet, Travel Editor

Dubai is a new city of massive, wacky and often brilliant skyscrapers.  But, alas, since they were all built quite recently, the city's sewer system is not even close to keeping up.

As NPR's "Fresh Air" reported last month, only a very few of these edifices are actually hooked up to the central municipal sewer system.  All the rest of the towers must install massive storage tanks and hire huge fleets of tanker trucks to carry away the waste.  These buildings work basically like RV's!  The tanker trucks, when they pull into the overburdened central treatment plants, are often forced to wait on line, for as long as 24 hours at a time, to dispose of  their "cargo."

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