Lack of water

The daily struggle for water is something the people are suffering from in many countries of the world, for example, we will talk about the Republic of Yemen. Children and women crowd around public faucets to collect water and return to the homes and for daily use. A lot of people aren’t able to pay water fees. The statistics shows each Yemeni only has access to about 140m³ comparing to the other Middle East countries where the average of each person is 1000m³. Some of those reasons were random digging and using the traditional way in the irrigation. Rapid intervention by the government is needed to solve this problem. If the government don’t put this problem on the top of the list of government priorities Sana'a, which is the city suffering most from this situation, will be the first capital in the world to run out of a viable water supply. There are some solutions to end this problem like to drill or truck in water. In my opinion the best solution is to ban qat cultivation which is one of the main reasons for this problem because it consumes large amounts of water In contrast, on the other hand there is no product to improve the standard of living.

The corals on the Gulf

We want to look for ways in which coral survives the deadly heat in the Gulf. We found that the coral lives in coexistence with the type of algae that live in the tissues of coral; these algae produce sugars that provide approximately 90 percent of the coral’s energy; the coral in return offers her coral shelter and nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. How the coral breed may be a solution for what we want to discover. One way is Fragmentation, also called vegetative propagation; this is when a piece of coral breaks off, rolls across the sand, lands somewhere else and starts growing. Now we all are working to find solutions to provide a suitable environment for live coral reproduction and prevent it from extinction. Knowing that we must keep in mind that temperatures continues to grow, especially in the Gulf region and its neighboring regions of similar climate.

 

New Pearl Museum in RAK

Our ancestors told us stories about the precious pearl. There are two names for this pearl, Bint Almtar, attributed to the rain and the other name is Bint Alqamar attributed to the moon. Those interested in anything about the pearls and their trade can look in the New Pearl Museum in RAK. The capital of pearl trading was RAK or as what it was known in the past as Julfar. When the Japanese invented the cultured pearls in the early of 1930’s the pearling industry collapsed in the Gulf. But regardless of the negative impact on the pearl industry in the Gulf still women’s names were linked with the pearl types such as Hessa and Dana. The owner of that museum which is one of a kind in the region is RAK Pearls Holding, a company that has been farming cultured pearls since 2005, and it opened two months ago. This museum which is located exactly on RAK Corniche has everything to illustrate how the process of diving for pearls and the tools. The museum also contains some of the distinctive and most famous pearls such as RAK's 12mm pearl which also Known as Miracle of Arabia.

The hajj

The hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. Every Muslim who is fit and financially able must perform the hajj at least once in his life. The pilgrimage starts on the 8^th day of 12^th month of the Islamic year and ends after 6 days. We should dress in white robes called the ihram. All steps of the hajj we must do in Mecca which is known as the capital of all the Islamic world and there is a unique mosque in Mecca and it’s name is Alhram. In Alhram there is Alk’aba; it’s a direction for all Muslims to face when they pray five times each day.

The hajj starts with a stop in a place named Meqat before Mecca and people wear the special dress for the hajj. For men it’s a white robe of two pieces and for women it’s any long simple dress but there is one condition; after they dress they can’t cut hair or nail until they take it off. The next step they should do is Tawaf and sa’i. On the first official day you should to mina and stay the night there. On the next day you should go to Arafat and stay till sunset then go to camp all night at Muzdalifah. On the 3^rd day you should go to Mina to do two things. The first thing is you should throw the stones on jamraat then slaughter a cheep ; then you should go back to Mecca to do Tawaf and sa’i. The next thing to do on the hajj is stay the next three days in Mina , Finally go to Mecca to do Tawaf.