Dubai company dreams of harvesting icebergs for water

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A Dubai company's dream of towing icebergs from the Antarctic to the Arabian Peninsula could face some titanic obstacles.

Where many see the crumbling polar ice caps as a distressing sign of global warming, the National Advisor Bureau Limited sees it as a source of profit, and a way of offsetting the effects of climate change in the increasingly sweltering Gulf.

The company has drawn up plans to harvest icebergs in the southern Indian Ocean and tow them 9,200 kilometers away to the Gulf, where they could be melted down for freshwater and marketed as a tourist attraction.