Now this is an organization that needs all the support they can get. Their mission: Make Kuwait Green.
This group is for an environmental project which calls on people who go camping during the winter time to plant 10 trees of certain type and irrigate it during the winter season. By the end of the season this tree will be able to survive and year after year our deserts will be our kid’s oasis.
Doesn’t sound very difficult and you can buy the small trees for really cheap from the nurseries on the 4th Ring Road. Imagine how beautiful the desert would be all green. Check out the Kuwait Oasis Facebook page [Here]
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excellent idea. implicitly, this mean that people will clean up their garbage too?
no they will just use it as an excuse. Garbage -> Compost -> Fertalize the trees lol
although, i hope the irrigation plan is sustainable.
Dears, this is a very bad idea with all respect to all the effort spent.. I read a research few years
Continue, (i pressed submit by mistake :P): … ago and the big disadvantage of making a desert green is the need of fresh water. Fresh water is worth gold in such environments and it is precious for the residents, we should not waste it on plantations which cant survive after incubation!
But water is so cheap! If it’s cheap, you can’t blame people for wasting it.
Totally agree, Fresh water is the most valuable resource in the desert. And the amount of fresh water is very limited, being produced at desalination plants which is very costly. Combine that with a population explosion along with the current failed desert ‘beautification’ projects underway, and you have a very serious disaster brewing. If the way fresh water is consumed in this country doesn’t change, we will have serious water shortages in Kuwait. This would turn Kuwait into Somalia overnight with thugs raiding the supermarkets and gunfights at the jam3iyas.
The viral, DIY nature of the project is very interesting. Although think this https://www.saharaforestproject.com/ is far more realistic and sustainable.
This should start with the foundation of a Green Party in Kuwait, which main focus will be to make Kuwait a greener place.
Once again the poor people of Kuwait must try to do the governments job. If the government cared they could formulate a ministry that handles these matters, including all other Green topics. Hey, did I just create jobs?
great idea, totally support planting more green in kuwait!! but i would recommend that people choose plants that simply suit the desert, & doesn’t need maintenance or consume much water! which is another environmental issue sadly.
Looks like somebody planted thousands of trees or bushes between 30&40 to the south of Ali Al Salem Al Sabah….Was this the government or the Kuwait Oasis?
the soil does not have any thing that can sustain life in a desert mostly….better have the municipality have do not litter signs all over kuwait ..just read Kuwait among 10 most polluted nations: WHO
https://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NTI1NTk1NDkxNg==
let ppl stop dumping trash in the desert first.
good idea though
First make the roads & streets green & then go to the desert part.
Well intentioned but useles!. I like the whole let’s-all-take-part thing but this is a short-term idea that doesn’t take into account the city expansion and how many trees this would kill (if they survive). I also really dislike the messy unplanned approach. In short this is an unsustainable project that prmosies more than it delivers; and I for one have heard enough of those for Kuwait to last me the rest of my life.
Fresh thinking is needed but not with this level of naiivety.
https://www.groasis.com/page/uk/index.php
I always thought the waterboxx was a great idea. A plastic planting pot that condenses humidity in the air to irrigate what’s planted in it. Nothing fancy, just the design of the plastic condenses and traps water that’s already in the air. This way you won’t need to irrigate as much (or ever). They need to be selling those instead of just wasting water and, like Bu Yousef said, planting false hope.
the baladiya will bulldoze their dreams…literally!
I read they have their bulldozers ready to start destroying green landscaping around the Surra area. Yep, they get wind of these trees they’ll bulldoze them also. They’re licensed hooligans.
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I am sure some of those that criticise the wasting of water are quite happy to have their car washed every morning!
Barrak, there is no use preaching sustainability here, the merchants don’t want it, the government don’t care, the people don’t get it
in all good intentions there will a lot of skeptics 🙂
There’s a lot of wild trees and bushes which are growing in kuwait without the need of contiuous fresh water, so i can say it is possible to make kuwait “green” and let the skeptics “grin” afterwards LOL!
This idea that we need to plant trees and make Kuwait green is a misunderstanding of how we need to protect Kuwait’s environment. We’ll never be able to cover Kuwait’s desert with trees and we shouldn’t. What we need to come to realize is that our dry terrestrial ecosystem is very rich in biodiversity and we’ll only help in eradicating this natural resource by introducing invasive species all over our desert. I know it would be awesome if Kuwait looked as green as austria but we’re stuck with this ecosystem and we need to suck it up because apparently we’re just making things worse for our ecosystem.
A very beautiful thought and a very good idea in principle. If it does work though who is going to protect it?? I can just see all of those free roaming sheep, camel and goat hearders chuckle in glee thinking to themselves .. let those gteen nuts plant their little trees.. more free fodder for our roaming flocks. Cause you aint planting in a nature reserve protected by law. Its a free open desert accessed by all. Human and animal alike. So who is going to stand guard over your little sapplings water them regularly and watch them grow? You turn your back for 1 moment and nexrt thing is that your little patch of green has herbivoure grazing on it.
It is a good idea to make Kuwait green. However if sth is called “desert” it means “sand” so I do not understand why would they like to make a savannah there. let the residential areas to be green and leave the desert the way it is. It a part of the natural Kuwaiti enviornment.
Tha government should be building a wildlife sanctuary in a green oasis for the country in the desert. I am sure the UAE would donate some indigenous animals to the sanctuary after the people working there are fully trained in how to care for the animals.But sorry to tell you your government does not think in terms of improving the nation, just improving their agendas.
TweeZ: The izala only bulldoze trees and extensions that go beyond what is legally allowed and that encroaches on sidewalks and road visibility. I mostly agree with what they’re doing.
Water_Conservation: Yes, I wash my car. I also keep the air conditioning on when there’s no one in the house. You know why? Electricity, water and petrol are artificially cheap. You can’t expect people to change their behavior by convincing them that it’s better for the ‘environment’ to do so. The only way we can make a real lasting change is by abolishing the subsidies. That’s politically impossible unless we find a way of redistributing the revenues back to the people.
Jotkat: I don’t think that’s fair. There are solutions out there that are feasible and need to be discussed in order for us to move forward. Just saying it’s all wasta, politics, etc, and not doing anything means that the status quo remains and they win. Nothing changes. Can’t hurt to try.
Abdullah: That’s not entirely true. In the same way we can have a negative impact on the environment we can also create conditions that have a positive impact. We will definitely not be able to create a forest, but we can invest in technologies that are sustainable and be a catalyst for growth: See this https://www.saharaforestproject.com/
Security Adviser: So? What you’re saying sounds like those ‘keep of the grass’ signs.
Kasia: The main problem I see with all this is the way it wastes freshwater. If water was expensive you will see that greywater recycling becomes feasible (your wastewater, from the sink, etc, being recycled to irrigate your plants, instead of going to the sewage). Subsidies are the root of many, many problems.
salti: The grass always seems greener at a benevolent dictatorship.
Unfortunately ‘greenifying’ the desert- ie putting plants where God never meant there to be plants, has increased allergies among the citizens tenfold over the years…..those trees could really be a ‘sight for SORE eyes’….
It sounds like a very nice initiative; however, I hope they studied / assessed the impact properly. Like a commenter mentioned above, the lack of water in the area doesn’t make it a very sustainable project. Also, the desert is the desert… do we really need to make it green? It wasn’t intended to be so why push the matter?
I’m all for initiatives and fresh ideas, I just hope they’re thought out well and sustainable enough for future generations to benefit from.
Regardless of what I said above, I think it’s noble that people are trying to do something great for Kuwait and our environment.
Keep it up people! We really need it… plenty of it!
i just finished planting , it actually was relaxing …