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Plan to tow icebergs from Antarctica to parched Dubai

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Just come to Christchurch and set up a private company to take as much water as you want for free. Youll annoy the people but The local politicians wont care.

Mother Earth is telling you something....perhaps you shouldnt build massive cities where there is no water

If they chop off Dubai and tow it all the way to Antarctica, there will be less wasteage of fresh glacial water during the trip.

History over millennia in the middle east have shown just how many cities and civilisations have boomed, busted and returned to mostly dust because of a lack of water.

Heres a couple of ideas, one just for them, one for them and the rest of the world. How about not building a huge city where there is no water and secondly lets stop breeding ourselves out of a planet

has the world not heard.New Zealand is giving away free water!!

Water will become such a precious commodity in years to come, NZ should be thinking about the money it could make from it. NZ could become a very wealthy nation just like those have who have provided oil to the world.

Perhaps instead of selling our water for a pittance to the Chinese, we should be doing a swap with Dubai. Oil for Water...win win.In the end, water will always be needed, oil, not so much. The government better be working on making money out of our water, instead of allowing things to continue as they were under the last government. The company in Chch wont hire kiwi labour, they will advise that no one suitable is available, then bring in more low paid chinese workers, who eventually end up on our unemployment line and super.

Much easier way. Just come to New Zealand and help yourself to the cleanest water in the world. Yes, we are that stupid.

They wont be stopped by conventional means. The Chinese businessmen work to their own rules. If it means so much to us, its time to step up and do something to force the Councils hand.

A great way to speed up global warming. Less ice reflecting incoming solar radiation will increasingly warm the Earth and Antarctica causing more ice melt and a positive feedback loop continues....

Its giving it away to China in CHCH....

Thats simple,its because our country is run by a bunch of idiots that cant see what the average NZ people see

I have an alternative solution. Dont encourage growth if your infrastructure cant support it.

Population growing at enormously unsustainable rate. Solution ... bring icebergs in to ensure they all have enough to drink and just keep the population getting bigger. What could possibly go wrong? Will we ever seriously have a conversation about starting to limit the number of humans on this planet? No, we will just keep destroying our beautiful home until its natural resources are completely gone and vast areas will be uninhabitable. You think mass immigration is happening now? Just wait a while

Real problem is too many people living in an enviroment not capable of sustaining them. Plus too many idiots wanting swimming pools in a desert.

While both oil and water are pumped from the earth water is more precious to life that oil but our governments give water away to countries that charge us for their oil.

These are the people that have supplied fossil fuels to the world amassing huge fortunes. Like they care. Mining antarticas already melting ice. ignorance and stupidity.

So dragging an iceberg is a more viable option than desalination run on solar power?

Fresh water is big business. The government should sell the tail race water that empties into deep cove and is lost.