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UAE banks on 'rainmakers' to secure future water supply
2016-01-29 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On a winter morning in one of the worlds driest and most water-stressed countries, meteorologist Sufian Khaled Farrah watched on the Doppler radar screen as a cold, wet front scudded across the Arabian Gulf - and quickly called air traffic controllers. Over the next 15 hours, six twin-engine planes took off from an airfield in Al Ain, on the eastern edge of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and flew repeatedly into the clouds, firing off 162 flares loaded with tiny particles of potassium chloride...
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