Cloud seeding, or how the United Arab Emirates is getting more rain

Almost half the world's population could face high water stress in 2030, according to the United Nations. In the fight against drought and in the search for sustainable sources of drinking and irrigation water, new technologies will play an increasingly important role. Cloud seeding is a technology developed since the middle of the last century, the purpose of which is, by interfering with the clouds, to force and increase the amount of precipitation in certain regions. The experience of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in cloud seeding was presented at the conference "Climate change - opportunities for transition to a sustainable food system and environmental protection" in Plovdiv. The UAE is in a region where there are no natural sources of water, except rainwater. The average annual rainfall in the country is only 100 mm. and for the past 2 decades or so, there has been a lot of work towards cloud seeding. Omar Al Yezedi - Director of the Research Center at the National Center ...