THE HYDROSPHERE
IN DUBAI
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WHAT IS THE PROBLEM OF THE ONE CLEAR IMPACT OF THE
HYDROSPHERE IN DUBAI AND PROBLEM ON THE HYDROSPHERE
WHAT IS THE REASON BEHIND /WHO IS BEING AFFECTED BY IT
IT? AND HOW?
The Hydrosphere system in Dubai faces many challenges like its
One clear impact about the flooding in
extreme desert environment and its rapid urbanization. Dubai's
Dubai is because of the extreme and
hydrosphere is poor because Dubai is well known for being a hot
country with a desert and in Dubai there are not many lakes or rivers.
heavy rain that has recently been
However, recently in Dubai, there has been extreme rainfall and most happening all around Dubai and roads,
places are getting very flooded around the roads and many routes parking lots are being extremely flooded.
need to be closed due to the situation. These floods happen very often This is a big problem because many
because in most places the Smart Drainage System is very poor and people get stuck in the middle of
the floodwater cannot enter the drainers in the roads. highways due to being stuck inside their
cars and their cars could get too much
3 water in it which can cause malfunction.
WHAT ARE SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS
(E.G. GREEN ROOFTOPS AND
PERMEABLE SUURFACES?
Dubai needs a lot of permeable surfaces because of their strong floods happening
due to the heavy and extreme weather. All roads are getting flooded extremely with
water that makes the cars, buses, and motorcycles hard to drive and control in the
roads and their are really high chances of the vehicles getting stuck in the roads
with can cause malfunctions to the vehicles. To fix this problem, Dubai needs to
add more roads that have high quality drainage systems like: Smart Drainage
Systems and Storm Motor Drainage systems. This will definitely cause much less
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floods and vehicles, and people can move around freely.
4 CONCLUSION
As a conclusion, I really think that 5
LINKS AND WEBSITES THAT I
HAVE USED TO RESEARCH
they add these sustainable
ABOUT THE HYDROSPHERE IN
solutions like more drainers in the DUBAI?
road, more systems that prevent
floods from happening, and for 1.)[Link]
Dubai to take more action into the
hydrosphere for their city. If they
here/
add these solutions, the city will be
much more sustainable and 2.)[Link]
transportation and residents living
there can move freely around dubai-flood/
places and there will be no more
blocked roads. In my honest
3.)[Link]
opinion, they should add these
solutions so that Dubai can be a [Link]/post/sustainable-drainage-
better place for humanity and for systems-in-dubai
sustainability.
BY SAM ABI SAAB - 8B