Dion van Oirschot, business manager of Rietland, previously visited Jeroen Tollenaar, managing director of Culimer FZE (photo) to discuss the design.
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For this reed field, sand was exported to Dubai because only desert sand was available on site that is too fine and dusty to use for a reed field.
A team of Pakistani workers largely constructed the reed bed by hand.
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