Bauer Nimr Reedbeds – Expedition Diary Day 18
Description
After a tough day yesterday walking face into a sandstorm, Mark and the team have headed inland to learn about the Bauer Nimr Reedbeds.
Visible from space, the Bauer Nimr reedbeds are the largest manmade reedbed on earth. Their role is both fascinating and vital. The plantation is a multi-award winning flagship project for the biological cleaning of polluted water from oil production at the Nimr oil field in the south of Oman.
At peak times, up to 175,000 m³ of polluted water currently runs through the plant in one day, Nearly 95% of the crude oil in the water can be removed or recovered without the use of energy or chemicals.
But a lush green reedbed like this brings other benefit too. It has become its own biodiversity hotspot with over 130 recorded bird species found there, thriving fish populations and water at the end of the process that is clean enough to be recycled for local agricultural use.
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