Green growth in the middle east

[W1nTry]

This is pretty cool and just goes to show what modern tech and a lil insight can do... we not talking a few blimps and a nationwide radar system that noone monitors kinda innovation here.... ^&*( the damn WAFT gov we have oui...

Amazing shot shows Saudi Arabia greening the desert

Ancient rivers make it practically self-sufficient

By INQUIRER staff: Friday 26 January 2007, 14:20
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BRITISH TECH FIRM Qinetiq released a TopSat micro satellite picture showing how green Saudi Arabia is becoming.

According to the firm, the shot (below) is of three kilometre circular fields supported by central pivot irrigation.

Water is "mined" from ancient rivers deep below the desert to the surface, and distributed by irrigation. The firm reckons Saudi Arabia is close to self sufficiency in agriculture, with land under cultivation rising from 400,000 acres in 1976 to over eight million acres today.

Qinetiq owns the satellite but is partners with Rutherford Appleton Labs, Surrey Satellite Technology and Infoterra. µ

[Crixx_Creww]

wow... nice to see great news coming out of that sector of the planet for a change.