Water usage in Arab countries

Shoaiba is larger than all three desalination plants in UAE combined.

150 million m3 per year in Shoaiba is pale in comparison to planned Ras Al Zour with 375 million m3 per year capacity.

Largest solar desalinization plant planed would be 10 million m3 per year Al-Khafji. This is miniscule in country, which is projected to use 4000 million m3 per year in 2020.

They need to burn natural gas and oil as fast as they can pumping it from the ground. Solar power doesn't make any change.

UAE is cutting down municipal water usage per person.

Real problem aren't cities, but agriculture. Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Oman and now UAE have huge and expensive agriculture. This is kind of insane and awesome in the same time.

They delude themselves vision of food independence, while costs are enormous. Saudi are mining 2300 liter of water 3000 meters under the surface to produce just one liter of milk. Al Safi is diary farm twice the size of largest such farm in USA, ten times larger than largest in Europe.

This incredible... and they are exporting milk to other Persian Gulf countries. This is crazy.