A company in the United Arab Emirates has come up with a bizarre plan to drag icebergs from Antarctica to the gulf coast in order to harvest its billions of gallons of fresh water.
The National Advisor Bureau, headquartered in Masdar City, Abu-Dhabi, plans to source the massive blocks of ice from Heard Island, around 1000 kilometers off the coast of mainland Antarctica.
It will then transport them around 8,800 km to Fujairah, one of the seven emirates which make up the UAE.
And the scheme could begin as early as the start of 2018.