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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (324806)2/6/2007 2:33:01 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (2) of 1575184
 
How many water lines run out to the desert.....they're called hookups? Most American cities have enough water in reservoirs scattered throughout a metro area so its fairly easy to put in the hookups needed to build on vacant land. I suspect that's not true in Dubai; that desalination plants limit the amount of land upon which can be be built. Therefore the land where hookups do exist becomes more valuable, concentrating development and making new construction more expensive. One possible reason for the property boom and escalating prices.

Sure, but can't they just build more desalination plants? Land is pretty close to unlimited. That makes the property boom hard to understand.
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