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Saudi National Water Company Plants One Million Trees in Madinah Region

Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company (NWC) has planted over one million trees across various areas of Madinah Region. (SPA)
Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company (NWC) has planted over one million trees across various areas of Madinah Region. (SPA)
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Saudi National Water Company Plants One Million Trees in Madinah Region

Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company (NWC) has planted over one million trees across various areas of Madinah Region. (SPA)
Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company (NWC) has planted over one million trees across various areas of Madinah Region. (SPA)

Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company (NWC) has planted over one million trees across various areas of Madinah Region, reported the Saudi Press Agency on Monday.

The move is part of the Saudi Green Initiative that aims to combat desertification, increase vegetation cover, raise environmental awareness, and optimize the utilization of water produced by wastewater treatment plants.

By strategically selecting the regions surrounding the wastewater treatment plants, NWC ensures that all the trees are nourished with the treated water generated by these facilities. This approach contributes to the Kingdom's environmental equilibrium and positively impacts the overall quality of life in the region.

NWC stressed its commitment to expanding tree planting during suitable agricultural seasons that align with the local environment, supporting afforestation initiatives in different regions of the Kingdom, and fostering partnerships with relevant entities, as well as utilizing treated water, to facilitate agricultural expansion and achieve the Saudi Green Initiative objectives.

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Plant Native to Sumatra Warms Up to About Temperature of Human Body

A flowering titan arum at Kew Gardens, London. Photograph: Clara Charles/AFP/Getty Images
A flowering titan arum at Kew Gardens, London. Photograph: Clara Charles/AFP/Getty Images
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Plant Native to Sumatra Warms Up to About Temperature of Human Body

A flowering titan arum at Kew Gardens, London. Photograph: Clara Charles/AFP/Getty Images
A flowering titan arum at Kew Gardens, London. Photograph: Clara Charles/AFP/Getty Images

This giant plant stinks to high heaven and warms up to about the temperature of a human body. It's the inflorescence of the titan arum, Amorphophallus titanum, a plant called a spadix that stands up to three metres tall, warms up to 36C at night and gives off the stench of a rotting corpse.

This wonder is actually a ruse to attract carrion flies and beetles to pollinate the small flowers that are tucked away at the base of the spadix inside a large bucket-shaped leafy wrapper, where the insects are trapped until the flowers are successfully pollinated, The Guardian reported.

A recent study revealed the plant’s pungent odours were made up of a stinky cocktail of sulphur chemicals, including the aptly named compound putrescine, which is given off by rotting animal carcasses.

This foul concoction is released only when the spadix warms up in short pulses.

The titan arum grows in the forests of Sumatra in Indonesia, and to add to its otherworldly qualities, the plant takes years to come into bloom for the first time, and when it does flower, the bloom only lasts a few days.