Comments on: ‘Olive City’ for Saudi Arabia? http://xrdarabia.org/2008/12/01/olive-city-for-saudi-arabia/ Informed comment and commentary about Saudi Arabia, reform, and its relations with the US Wed, 23 May 2012 23:26:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Burgess http://xrdarabia.org/2008/12/01/olive-city-for-saudi-arabia/comment-page-1/#comment-17218 John Burgess Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:15:09 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/?p=6160#comment-17218 Thanks for the link. ARAMCO World has a lot of very interesting articles. They should consider republishing the best ones in a book format, IMO. Rain catchment might be enough and, relative to most of the KSA, Al-Jouf certain can be considered 'wet'. I'd really like to see this endeavor succeed, but it looks uphill to me. Thanks for the link. ARAMCO World has a lot of very interesting articles. They should consider republishing the best ones in a book format, IMO.

Rain catchment might be enough and, relative to most of the KSA, Al-Jouf certain can be considered ‘wet’. I’d really like to see this endeavor succeed, but it looks uphill to me.

]]> By: DW http://xrdarabia.org/2008/12/01/olive-city-for-saudi-arabia/comment-page-1/#comment-17216 DW Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:28:33 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/?p=6160#comment-17216 Here is an interesting article, you can just skip to about the last paragraphs where the writer talks about the agriculture properties of Al Jawf. The article still holds some new information for me about the history of the Arabian peninsula, I might dig into it later. http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199802/unsung.crossroads.htm I do agree though, the probability of mass producing olives sounds far fetched in terms of water supply, but I think finding out the potential rain volume per year might be a good place to look. Having a historic oasis helps Al Jawf, but for example having small dams would help them increase the water supply for such a large plan. Here is an interesting article, you can just skip to about the last paragraphs where the writer talks about the agriculture properties of Al Jawf. The article still holds some new information for me about the history of the Arabian peninsula, I might dig into it later.

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199802/unsung.crossroads.htm

I do agree though, the probability of mass producing olives sounds far fetched in terms of water supply, but I think finding out the potential rain volume per year might be a good place to look. Having a historic oasis helps Al Jawf, but for example having small dams would help them increase the water supply for such a large plan.

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