Name: How This Country Creates Rain #401
Uploaded: 2026-02-15T17:06:30.000Z
Duration: 3 min 28 s
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For the first time ever, I want to tell you the story of how this country creates rain.

Here in the United Arab Emirates, the weather is very dry, which means in the winter, weather is really nice.

But it also means there, there is very little rain.

So the Emirates built this command center with one mission.

They monitor all the skies in the country in real time and look for tiny clouds.

The minute they find a small cloud, they get excited because it has rain inside of it.

So they get a plane and a pilot and they put 48kg of a special type of salt inside that plane.

It's three times better than normal salt.

This is the first time they're opening this salt packet.

Usually this only opens up in the air, but now you're gonna see what's inside of it.

These salt molecul attract water particles and make clouds heavier and heavier until they rain.

So these tiny planes go up to the skies and drop salt right under the clouds.

So this is actually a natural phenomenon.

So we are just making it better and faster.

And sometimes they don't even need to send a plane.

They release this salt on top of mountains to generate more rain.

This is a real program with tens of researchers and pilots working full time to make more rain in the country.

Despite all of this, we still cannot control the rain 100%.

We cannot control where the cloud will go or where it will rain.

Last year alone, they sent over 300 planes to the skies.

We know about the water problem by our operations.

It could be one of the solutions to provide fresh water for arid and semi arid regions around the world.

If humans need to send planes to the skies to make water, let us save water.

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