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Most middle eastern countries have dozens of desal plants. I live in Abu Dhabi and desal plants are our only source of fresh water for any use. There are 200+ around the gulf which in combination with the lack if a full tidal flush, hot summers, and only one fresh water source into the gulf we end up with sea water that is twice as salty as the Indian Ocean.

Source: I work closely with the UAE environmental agency to help educate school children on the local coastline environment and how we are changing it.

It is almost exclusively non-western migrants. By law the companies can agree to hold an employees passport for safe keeping and are required to give it to the employee on request. Obviously companies do not follow these laws and it is usually a case of "oh, nobody filled out the proper form or the form got lost."

As someone who lives in the UAE and is connected with a lot of expats I don't know of anyone who has had problems. The only time you are forced to not have your passport is when your employer submits for your work visa and then it is in a government office for a few days.

Woah! My first response ever from posting in an AMA! 10/10 will PM.

Edit: wait.... we have drinkable ground water?

Pretty sure you are right about OP. The sad thing is teaching even basic level English classes can pay VERY well.

Wife and I live abroad and she is a teacher, although not English, and the paychecks are great. There are even plenty of crap teachers making good money. If OP couldn't find a cush job at a school that pays decent he's not someone we want on government. He's taught less than half the time my wife has and thinks he can use that as the basis of his political career?

He thinks he's good enough to not need previous government experience? Fucker probably thought he could run every school be was at.

I work with a lot of LM guys in the Middle East and can confirm the frequency of bouncing around. In 5 years I've know a guy who left LM worked for Harris and then went to consult for LM doing the same thing he did before but because he's a consultant he gets paid more. Knowing how to work the machine is just as important as knowing how to do the job.