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Beaches in Dubai under threat

Dubai has rapidly risen through theUmm Suqeim beach, which has many houses
ranks to become one of the world's topbehind it under real threat from the
tourist destinations thanks to a numbercoastal erosion. As well as the groynes,
of diverse factors, not least of whichsand is being deposited by engineers as
includes a recent and sustained periodquickly as it is being washed away by
of heavy investment in the constructionthe seas with over 500,000 cubic metres
of residential, holiday and commercialpoured on existing beaches by the
properties in the Emirate.coastal management department.
As well as the intensive buildingThe Dubai coastal zone stretches from
programme, Dubai has also investedthe Abu Dhabi border in the south to the
heavily in ensuring that theEmirate of Sharjah in the north, passing
infrastructure is in place to matchthrough the City of Dubai, and it is
their lofty construction ambitions. Thethis entire stretch of approximately 70
government's strategic approach ensureskilometres that is under observation by
that they never take their eye off thethe engineers. But, as they point out
ball and pay attention to every detail;the erosion is nothing new, it has
nothing is overlooked and that includesalways affected the Dubai coast.
the beaches.However, due to the massive programme of
Dubai's beaches and parks offer aconstruction that has seen many new
diverse range of recreational andproperties being built close to the sea,
leisure activities, and prove a big drawit is now becoming a threat to those
for the millions of tourists that visithotels, houses and holiday homes.
every year. However, coastal erosion isIndeed, another concern of the engineers
a real problem in Dubai as the sea isis that the building of the mega
eating away almost 50 metres of beachprojects off the coast of Dubai, such as
every two years, according to figuresThe World, are actually increasing the
collected by engineers at the Coastaleffect of the onshore erosion. They are
Management Section of Dubaicalling for any development, whether it
Municipality. This has prompted theis a one-off new luxury beach hotel in
development of a new mission to protectDubai or a mega project built off-shore
the Persian Gulf shore and theto be assessed for its likely impact on
subsequent buildings behind it by thethe region's beaches. As they point out,
specialist government department.the beaches are one of the major reasons
Five-tonne bags of sand have beenwhy millions of tourists are flocking to
strategically positioned 100 metres fromthe region in the first place, so they
the shore in a protective arc known as ashould ensure that further development
groyne to prevent the destruction of thedoes not affect them too adversely.



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