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PLUMBING IN THE MIDDLE EAST
How a desert that should be empty learned to drink the sea
There is not a single permanent river on the entire Arabian Peninsula. By every rule of geography, cities like Dubai and Riyadh should not exist. Yet millions live there, the taps run, and the towers climb — because in the Persian Gulf, plumbing isn't a trade. It's the thin, humming line between civilization and empty sand.
This book follows an American plumber across that line. Everything he knows gets turned inside out: at home, you fight to keep water out — off slabs, out of basements, down the storm drain. Here, the whole world is built to bring water in — lifted from the sea by reverse osmosis, pushed across open desert, hoarded in a tank on every rooftop, and re-pressurized building by building.
Along the way you'll learn why the world's tallest building once flushed into a fleet of trucks, why a $22-billion sewer tunnel is really a 3,000-year-old idea reborn, why every toilet has a sprayer beside it and faces a particular direction, and why the green plastic in the walls is welded with a hot iron instead of soldered with a torch. You'll meet the Abu Jambo wrench, the squat toilet's hidden trap seal, the booster pump that dies three ways, and the brutal heat that organizes every workday.
Built for working professionals but written for anyone curious enough to follow a pipe from the sea to the sink, Plumbing in the Middle East is part field manual, part travelogue, and part argument that the most important systems in any city are the ones we never see. Every concept is taught in four clear moves — the fact, the breakdown, the interpretation, the context — and grounded in real photos, real failures, and real engineering.
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - PLUMBING IN THE MIDDLE EASTHow a desert that should be empty learned to drink the seaThere is not a single permanent river on the entire Arabian Peninsula. By every rule of geography, cities like Dubai and Riyadh should not exist. Yet millions live there, the taps run, and the towers climb - because in the Persian Gulf, plumbing isn't a trade. It's the thin, humming line between civilization and empty sand.This book follows an American plumber across that line. Everything he knows gets turned inside out: at home, you fight to keep water out - off slabs, out of basements, down the storm drain. Here, the whole world is built to bring water in - lifted from the sea by reverse osmosis, pushed across open desert, hoarded in a tank on every rooftop, and re-pressurized building by building.Along the way you'll learn why the world's tallest building once flushed into a fleet of trucks, why a $22-billion sewer tunnel is really a 3,000-year-old idea reborn, why every toilet has a sprayer beside it and faces a particular direction, and why the green plastic in the walls is welded with a hot iron instead of soldered with a torch. You'll meet the Abu Jambo wrench, the squat toilet's hidden trap seal, the booster pump that dies three ways, and the brutal heat that organizes every workday.Built for working professionals but written for anyone curious enough to follow a pipe from the sea to the sink, Plumbing in the Middle East is part field manual, part travelogue, and part argument that the most important systems in any city are the ones we never see. Every concept is taught in four clear moves - the fact, the breakdown, the interpretation, the context - and grounded in real photos, real failures, and real engineering. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798182480413
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