The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world which cost $1.5 billion to make but it is not connected to Dubai’s sewage system so where does all the waste of the building go?
Unfortunately, it isn’t hooked up to a municipal wastewater treatment system – so when you poop in the Burj Khalifa, that waste is actually trucked out of the city.
Trucked out of the city! We’re frankly flabbergasted by the inefficiency of such a system. One of the world’s most advanced buildings relies on an arcane method to transport wastewater to a treatment facility outside of town.
Now you might be wondering why anybody would spend $1.5 billion on a skyscraper without ensuring there’s a system in place to remove its waste.
Why Dubai’s Burj Khalifa doesn’t have a sewage system?
Well, When the Burj was completed Dubia was reeling from the impacts of the 2008 credit crunch and it was decided that the cost of adding it to the city’s already strained sewer system was an unnecessary waste of money.
The developers were confident that trucking the waste out every day would be cheaper than making the improvements to the sewer system in the short tonne.
However, with a possible residency of 35,000 people, the building is capable of producing a staggering 15 tonnes of sewage a day.
There are now plans to re-develop the sewage system but it will not be completed until 2025.
