Indigenous waste water can be used to support a pilot project, sufficiently large enough to demonstrate both micro and macro climate change resulting from established vegetation and irrigation. Dubai has effluent backed up in road tankers waiting to be emptied. A single skinned redundant tanker could be converted to treat this effluent anaerobically and supply methane gas to the national grid. Thames water is already converting waste water into methane which it feeds directly into the gas mains of London. The effluent that comes from anaerobic treatment is rich in the very nutrients required to terraform desert into tropical rainforest and support agroforestry based practices. After all, desert sand is soil with all of the organic material stripped out by wind and rain erosion. Furthermore the biosolids from anaerobic treatment is 100% safe, containing zero pathogens that pose risk and is exactly what the soils of the Middle East and Africa are lacking. Egypt believe it or not is currently selling timber products from forest grown by using indigenous waste water in what was once an arid desert. Had they have had the foresight to have planted their forest directly on the coastline. Operation OASIS would be a global project by now. The West is thinking to itself that deserts pose no risk to us and they are so wrong. The dryer these vast regions become ultimately means that more water will fall in other regions and we are already seeing devastating flash floods and massive storm damage. We need to bring the global climate back into stability. Of course nature will do this all by itself once we have unleashed it's full wrath upon the Earth. The dinosaurs managed it and I am sure we will surpass those.
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