Cutting ties with Qatar
Jun 7th 2017, 8:53 am
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Re: Cutting ties with Qatar
Even though this is the only subject that every single local that I've spoken to in the last few days wants to talk about (and they all seem to have roughly the same opinion, not unlike those expressed here), clearly this is something that we need to stop talking about forthwith:
Qatari sympathisers to face fine, jail | GulfNews.com
Qatari sympathisers to face fine, jail | GulfNews.com
Jun 7th 2017, 9:29 am
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Re: Cutting ties with Qatar
Even though this is the only subject that every single local that I've spoken to in the last few days wants to talk about (and they all seem to have roughly the same opinion, not unlike those expressed here), clearly this is something that we need to stop talking about forthwith:
Qatari sympathisers to face fine, jail | GulfNews.com
Qatari sympathisers to face fine, jail | GulfNews.com
Jun 7th 2017, 11:34 am
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Re: Cutting ties with Qatar
Hope nothing effects Oman - heading there for a few days for Eid hols.
Jun 8th 2017, 6:14 am
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Re: Cutting ties with Qatar
Two more: The Union of Comoros, and Mauritania.
Jun 8th 2017, 4:47 pm
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Re: Cutting ties with Qatar
backstabbing each other
Jun 8th 2017, 8:37 pm
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Re: Cutting ties with Qatar
News reports are stating that people in Qatar are cleaning out supermarket shelves of food & water . Why water? Doesn't Qatar get most of its potable water from aquifers and its own desalination plants?
Jun 9th 2017, 8:26 am
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Re: Cutting ties with Qatar
The only shortages that I've heard of are milk and fresh chicken, both sourced from Saudi.
Jun 9th 2017, 1:12 pm
#25
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Re: Cutting ties with Qatar
It makes sense to have a store of bottled drinking water. Qatar has a single desalination/ electricity plant (Ras Abu Fontas) and only carries half a day's strategic water storage. The aquifers are used in a few areas for farming, but overabstraction and lack of sanitation have left many contaminated with seawater and sewage. They do produce their own bottled water that's been through an RO plant, and is popular.
The only shortages that I've heard of are milk and fresh chicken, both sourced from Saudi.
The only shortages that I've heard of are milk and fresh chicken, both sourced from Saudi.
Jun 9th 2017, 11:14 pm
#27
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Re: Cutting ties with Qatar
The also produce their own milk from dairy cows, on an inductrial scale.
See here.
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See here.
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Jun 10th 2017, 7:30 am
#28
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Re: Cutting ties with Qatar
Fresh milk back on the shelves today, all the way from Turkey
Still no fresh chicken
Still no fresh chicken
Jun 10th 2017, 7:48 am
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Re: Cutting ties with Qatar
Just realised. I haven't bought milk for weeks. Never use the stuff. Nasty.