The Sauds appointed one rather enthusiastic prince to see to providing fresh water to Arabia's new Gulf ports. He got sacked and then went about telling people that desalination wasn't going to work, and the Arabs should just ship Antarctic ice up the Indian Ocean to the Gulf instead.
Relevant to my interests, bulk transportation is getting cheaper... but so is desalination.
Anyway that prince's idea is terrible for the Gulf, which is famously shallow. You won't get an iceberg in there. I suppose you could bring it to Muscat, shatter it, and ship the smaller 'bergs but that seems wasteful.
Might it not be practical for western Australia or northern Chile, however...? There are a few islands north of Antarctic that nobody much wants: Kerguelen, Tierra del Fuego, Falklands, South Georgia. Tug the 'bergs there and shelter them over the summer.
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