There are about a million things here that I need to educate myself on regarding life in the Middle East. I am hoarding information wherever I can and trying to digest bits and pieces of it between figuring out where the food markets are and looking at potential future homes. But yesterdays headlines in an online magazine caught my attention:
So here is a list of a few things that bubbled to top of mind during my Tuesday Java Rumination. Perhaps some of these might ease the numbers back down a tad? I'm certain that the President will thank me for my brilliance later with a lovely luxury automobile...oooh the new Range Rover is very nice!
-1. Remove the auto flush on toilets, is it really all that difficult to push a button when you've done your business? The good motion sensors tend to flush at least twice before you manage your escape from the stall.
- 2. Those fountains at Burj Khalifa....gorgeous but tsk, tsk, tsk.
- 3. Hey, Ski Dubai! How much water does it take to manage 3000 cubic of meters of snow in the dessert?
- 4. Golf courses. Does anyone really play golf from May to October? So why water the "greens"? And heck, since we're brain storming, let's change up the game of golf to make it more interesting....just switch the greens and sand hazards! You play on the sand and try to avoid the greens! Introduce Saguaro cactus as your hazards. Oh, stop yer whining. If Thailand can make Elephant Polo work, Sand Golfing should be a breeze!
And to be fair, I realize that not allowing On the Border to put alcohol in their frozen margaritas was a good jump start in the attempt at water conservation.....certainly the demand for crushed ice has been drastically reduced.
President calls for rain prayers in UAE
Appoints 7 judges to Federal Court of Appeal
As I have lived in Beijing where they make it rain on command, I didn't immediately question appointing judges to deal with an appeal process of rain prayers but in reading on I realized this was just another editing snafu. Still, it's pretty impressive that a mandate goes out to include rain in the 8am Friday prayer...perhaps I should do my part here too and add this to my 8am Friday Java Rumination, after all water consumption here is off the charts....well, consumption in general is off the charts.
So here is a list of a few things that bubbled to top of mind during my Tuesday Java Rumination. Perhaps some of these might ease the numbers back down a tad? I'm certain that the President will thank me for my brilliance later with a lovely luxury automobile...oooh the new Range Rover is very nice!
-1. Remove the auto flush on toilets, is it really all that difficult to push a button when you've done your business? The good motion sensors tend to flush at least twice before you manage your escape from the stall.
- 2. Those fountains at Burj Khalifa....gorgeous but tsk, tsk, tsk.
- 3. Hey, Ski Dubai! How much water does it take to manage 3000 cubic of meters of snow in the dessert?
- 4. Golf courses. Does anyone really play golf from May to October? So why water the "greens"? And heck, since we're brain storming, let's change up the game of golf to make it more interesting....just switch the greens and sand hazards! You play on the sand and try to avoid the greens! Introduce Saguaro cactus as your hazards. Oh, stop yer whining. If Thailand can make Elephant Polo work, Sand Golfing should be a breeze!
And to be fair, I realize that not allowing On the Border to put alcohol in their frozen margaritas was a good jump start in the attempt at water conservation.....certainly the demand for crushed ice has been drastically reduced.
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