UAE Firm Plans to Move Antarctic Iceberg Into the Persian Gulf and Use It as a Freshwater Source
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The National Advisor Bureau Limited, a company based in the United Arab Emirates, now moves to conduct the first test run of its ambitious plan to tow icebergs from Antarctica to the Persian Gulf in order to be used as a source of fresh water.
"It will be cheaper to bring in these icebergs and utilise them for freshwater rather than utilising the desalination water, because desalination plants require a huge amount of capital investments", said the company’s managing director Abdulla Alshehi on Euronews’ Inspire Middle East show.
The company's preliminary test will cost up to $80 million.
Read more about it on Arabian Business and Sputnik News.
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