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To: Elroy who wrote (324735)	2/6/2007 2:23:48 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575047

Maybe a lot of land but how much of it is hooked up to the water supply? Every building has water, if that's what you mean. It's all from salination plants. Not many fresh water rivers in the desert.... 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.