Artificial rain in UAE

 Rain is a very rare event in the United Arab Emirates.  There is no shortage of clouds in the desert country.  But in the intense heat it evaporates before it rains.  They launched a project to solve the problem.  But that requires dangerous flights.

 Anders Mard will turn clouds into rain with 48 cartridges filled with salt.  Today is a good day to do the work.  Taking a last look at everything before starting the operation.  The 57-year-old Swede has just three hours before it rains.  And the procedure is complicated.

He said, it is not normal for a pilot like me to insert something into the cloud.  Because I have been avoiding the cloud for the convenience of passengers all my life.  But now, even if I don't enter the cloud, I will fly around its lap, which will create quite a lot of turbulence.

 Cloud view from the desert is obscure and the temperature is 35 degrees Celsius.  But there are many expectations on this mission.  Water scarcity in the Emirates.  But a glittering metropolis like Dubai consumes a lot of water.  The construction industry is evolving.  Despite rising temperatures and falling groundwater levels, eight million people flock to the oil-rich land each year.

Farming in the desert has become more of a farce.  Salah Al Hamadi retired five years ago.  Since then he tried to focus on agriculture.  Salah, 63, grows figs, pomegranates, corn and dates on a small plot of land on the outskirts of Dubai.  He brought water from a three hundred meter deep well.  Every year the water level is falling further.  He can water the orchard for a maximum of three hours a day.  In extreme heat, many fruits wither and cannot be sold.  So he trusts in Allah.

 The National Center for Meteorology in Abu Dhabi is trying for rain.  Ahmed Al Kamali is presenting weather data to his team and predicting when and where any clouds will appear.  It's not that it doesn't rain in the Emirates.  Yes but very little.  The researchers used four propeller planes to shoot sodium and potassium chloride into the cloud.  The logic is that salt particles bind water, become heavy and rain.  So it doesn't rain as much anywhere else.  The results of 15 years of practice are encouraging.

Meteorologist Kamali said, in a recent study we are looking at how to produce more rainfall.  It was found that throwing salt in the clouds resulted in 23 percent more rain on average.  It can even be as high as 35 percent.

 Thick clouds are gathering in the sky.  No more time.  Ahmed Al Kamali sent a message to Anders Mard.  Find him a bunch of dense clouds.