The National Advisor Bureau Limited, which plans to tow icebergs from Antarctica to Fujairah coast as a new source of freshwater in the region, revealed that the towed icebergs may cause a significant and radical climate change in the region.
Cold air gushing out from an iceberg close to the shores of the Arabian Sea would cause a trough and rainstorms across the Arabian Gulf and the southern region of the Arabian Peninsula all year round.
An average gargantuan iceberg contains more than 20 billion gallons of water, enough for one million people over five years, said Abdullah Mohammad Sulaiman Al Shehi, managing director of National Advisor Bureau Limited headquartered in Masdar City.
He added that despite expected scepticism from naysayers, his firm has already run the iceberg transportation route and variables through simulators to help frame the feasibility of what he is calling the UAE Iceberg Project.
The idea of harvesting icebergs is not new — one highly publicised effort in the 1970s to bring polar ice to Saudi Arabia was abandoned for price and technical challenges at that time
News Source: Firm to tow icebergs from Antarctica to Fujairah
