Question

i need outline for reduceing the air pollution amont in KSA report

Answer 1

Desertification, Water Pollution, and Air pollution are the most hazardous environmental issues in Saudi Arabia. Especially, desertification is the most serious environmental issue. However, the other two issues are serious as well, and they are getting worse by time. First, air pollution in Saudi Arabia is originally come crude oil. While they are refining crude oil, it creates different kinds of greenhouse gases that create air pollution (United States Energy Information Administration). These gases also cause increment of temperature of Saudi Arabia as well. As a result, air pollution in Saudi Arabia also affects desertification because of increasing temperature. Also, greenhouse from urban cities is causing air pollution as well. Second, desertification is serious problem in Saudi Arabia. According to United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification,approximately more than 98% of land mass of Saudi Arabia is desert. It is not only the problem of Saudi Arabia, but also every country in Arabian region is suffering the problem of desertification. Approximately 2,331,000 km² of Arabian region is desert, and desert of whole Asian region increased 1,671.8 hectare in 2011. Desertification decreases food production in large scale, especially production of crops. In Saudi Arabia, because of large scale of desert, only 1.6% of land is available for agriculture. Therefore, Saudi Arabia is highly depending on import for their food and industrial goods, which is over 70%. Water pollution, desertification, and air pollution are three important environmental issues that are discussed in Saudi Arabia, and government is seeking several solutions to resolve these problems.

Eco City

One of the solutions for environmental problems of Saudi Arabia is creating Eco-city. It is long-term project that reducing greenhouse gas and reducing pollutants that influence our environment. There are several Eco cities that are in progress. German, France, USA, and Korea already made positive results out of it. By using ubiquitous IT technologies, the computer automatically makes process of smart sewage system, smart highway, and so on. Not only in Eastern Asia and Europe, there are several countries in Arabian region that is planning to build these smart cities. Because Arabian region has high level of sunlight during the day, they are expecting high efficiency of solar power for urban use. Scientists expect that by using solar power, whole city can reduce emission of greenhouse gas in large scale. In urban use, solar energy may replace oil to produce electricity for air conditioner, lights, cars (hybrid), etc

                                           Eco city can influence water pollution and air pollution. However, we cannot expect whether it will reduce the speed of desertification. There is no clue that Eco city can reduce degradation of land, because there is no example. Eco city is originally designed for the city where is surrounded by environment which is relatively better than Arabian region. Therefore, we cannot ensure that Eco city project can help Saudi Arabians with desertification. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia is having progress with Eco city. It is building Eco City that will function with solar and wind power. Scientists expect that this Eco city will not only reduce water pollution and air pollution, but it may also reduce desertification (Alternative Energy). Eco city is hard project to proceed. It is very expensive, time consuming, and unpredictable. However, preceding examples from other countries encourage that it does have powerful and positive impact afterward. Thus, it can be concluded that creating Eco city would benefit Saudi Arabia not only reducing water pollution and air pollution, but it can also benefit Saudi Arabia’s economy.