How come there are no famines/droughts in the Gulf states?

[PureQ]

Somalia needs to learn from the Gulf peninsula. All consist of deserts and extreme heat on daily basis yet there are no kinds of el nino hitting in the Gulf.

How did they avoid famines/droughts?

[JSL3000]

It's called oil money.

[PureQ]

It's called oil money.

Be more specific. How to prevent this, what infrastructure, cost and where etc.

[JSL3000]

Listen gulf states have water refinery plants cities that only use renewable energy such as solar and wind they even got desalination plants due the money they received from their oil they are far more advanced than impoverished countries in the horn of africa.

Another factor is that gulf states economy based on oil revenues and tourism while countries in horn of africa economies are based on livestock and agriculture and foreign aid hand outs.

[Rambie]

Actually, sea water refinery is very expensive & costly process.
Power plants generate electricity through fossil fuel or natural gas.


The reason there is no famine in the gulf is simple, they have money.
When you export a 1 million barrel every day on the price of 100$ per barrel it means
receiving 100 million dollar per day doing nothing but pumping oil. Most Gulf states export anything
between 2 - 10 million barrel per day which is like 200m - 1 billion in ideal scenario. Even now when price of oil
is low at 40$ per barrel that's more than the budget of PL state for 1 year generated in two days assuming they export is only million barrel.


Even if there was drought, it does not effect the Gulf sates because they import most of their consumption of food & refine sea water.

[JSL3000]

It's that Arab money.

[gegiroor]

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[gegiroor]

They have stable governments that address the needs of their people. If drought comes and the government takes care of the needs of its people, you will not hear a news on that drought ......unlike heartless Somali leaders who pocket whatever funds donated to the Somali people.

[sahal80]

Gulf countries are same as dibouti but the money makes difference

While in djibouti food and goods r imported by the traders who would sell to the local markets, gulf governments would import the food and sell to the markets in a low prices, so it doesn't cost the people

They don't depend anymore on oil incomce alone, infact dubais oil income account 3 percent of its domestic production

They got alot of textile and gold factories, cosmetic companies and trade on gold and stock market

Some of them like Saudi Arabia have farmlands in Ethiopia, egypt and india.