The rich in the United Arab Emirates want to move icebergs home from Antarctica. How rich are those Middle Eastern tycoons?

First of all, let’s take a look at the United Arab Emirates. The UAE is located in the east of the Arabian Peninsula and borders the Persian Gulf to the north. The country basically has a tropical desert climate, which is hot all year round and lacks water resources. However, with its rich oil and gas resources, Proven oil and gas resources rank among the highest in the world. As the country's political situation is stable, it actively promotes economic development and national modernization internally; it has active external exchanges, focuses on strengthening relations with countries and major powers in the Gulf region, and plays a unique role in regional and international affairs. The country can devote itself wholeheartedly to economic construction, Abu Dhabi and Dubai are internationally famous metropolises.

The UAE attaches great importance to oil production and has made outstanding achievements. It has comprehensively developed its national economy and developed comprehensively in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and heavy and light industries. After decades of development, the country has a small population and has accumulated a large amount of oil. The wealth has also created many rich people.

The reason why the rich people in the United Arab Emirates want to move icebergs home from Antarctica is that the United Arab Emirates is one of the driest countries in the world and one of the 10 most water-scarce countries in the world. Despite this, as the United Arab Emirates With the rapid development of the economy, the demand for water in agriculture, industry, and domestic life has increased rapidly. The country's water consumption is more than twice the global average, which will also make the country face serious drought risks in the next 25 years. Although the country has There are many advanced seawater purifiers, but they are still a drop in the bucket. So Abdul, an inventor and entrepreneur from the United Arab Emirates, proposed transporting icebergs to solve the country's water shortage problem. He believed that desalination plants require a large amount of capital investment, and injecting large amounts of seawater into the bay will endanger For the survival of fish and marine life, transporting icebergs is cheaper in comparison.

So don’t ask how rich the United Arab Emirates is. In other people’s eyes, money is for fun.