The Dubai poop-truck parade...

I thought they just dump it in the dunes? Then it leeches into the bay and pollutes the water.

So if the trucks have to wait so long to dispose of the waste what do the drivers do when they need to go and are stuck in line? Is topping off a load illegal? LOL

 

Q: What happens at the skyscrapers when the truck drivers go on strike?

A: The poop scrapers get a pay raise.

 

i know what you're saying in the sentance.


i work with architects and engineers.
always blame the engineers.
we do at work.

 

Just because they do it differently in Dubai doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. As Hyo pointed out, our use of treated potable water to carry sewage isn't the brightest idea in the world either.

Both underground sewage and aboveground truckage are infrastructure, both require erection and upgrade, operating and maintenance costs. Both impose some type of environmental footprint. No one has yet in this thread presented any anaylsis that demonstrates the superiority of either infrastructure over the other.

Underground presents a cultural mores advantage (for us, anyway) of siting an activity that disgusts us out of sight. But not all cultures are disgusted by the same things or to the same degree. Here in the West we think nothing of touching food with our left hands. In some Eastern cultures touching food with the left hand is a faux pas on par with spitting at someone - because the left hand in those cultures is the hand always used to wipe with.

I'd be concerned more by the length of the queue than the fact that the carrying is done by trucks instead of by pipes. Once the queue length exceeds the actual full turnaround time it's inefficient, and if those truck are sitting for DAYS they're probably well over the turnaround time (time to pickup, carry away, discharge & return for another pickup). I think the scheme could be scheduled to eliminate the queue entirely by giving each truck a discrete pickup time. That'd eliminate traffic, give the drivers more constructive use of their time doing other things, reduce fuel waste and pollution increase of idling engines, etc.

Anway, the main point here is we're ridiculing something without sufficient knowledge to know whether this is really more ridiculous than what we do.

 

Maybe if they stuck the stuff in an anaerobic digester and used some of the methane to power the city and used whats left as a fertiliser for their crappy soil we'd have more respect. Rather than sticking it all in a hole in the ground.

I'm not saying we don't do crazy things - we did and we're now paying the price, but we had to work it all out for ourselves a hundred years ago, whereas they could learn from our mistakes but haven't.

That in my mind is madness.

 

so what happens if the truck drivers go on strike?

people go back to the old days of london and crap in the streets?

 

The truck drivers are probably near slave labor from really 3rd world countries. If they were to try to strike bad things would happen to them.

 

If they got rid of the Drivers and Tractors, cut the ends of the tankers off, since they are already lined up, just weld them together and Viola, a PIPELINE! Just wait for a sandstorm to bury it, instant infrastructure!

 

It's where our word for toilet comes from; loo. It's shortened from the French "Gare de l'eau" which translates to "beware the water" before the slops from the chamber pot where chucked out the bedroom window into the street below.

You were in for a messy surprise if you didn't heed said warning!



I hasten to add this was the normal 500 years ago and doesn't happen today.

 

thats wy i want to use rain water and used water ( from shower ) to flush