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Umm Bab
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Overview
Umm Bab is a settlement in western Qatar, located in the municipality of Al-Shahaniya. It used to be part of the Al Rayyan municipality and prior to that part of Al Jemailiya municipality before the latter was incorporated into Al Rayyan. Umm Bab is well known locally for Al Khraij Beach, which is also known as 'Palm Tree Beach' owing to a small cluster of palm trees situated off the shoreline.
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History
In 1948, shortly after the commencement of oil drilling operations in Dukhan, a housing village was built to the immediate south of Umm Bab to accommodate both Qatar Petroleum workers and locals of Umm Bab. A road was built the same year to connect Umm Bab and Dukhan. In 1961, the government inaugurated a boys school in the village. The housing village had approximately 50 households and a population of about 1,000 by 1990, most of which belonged to members of the Al Murrah tribe who were employed by Qatar Petroleum.
Geography
Situated in western Qatar, Umm Bab is only 25 km away from the industrial city of Dukhan. It is 85 km west of the capital of Doha, 142 km southwest of Al Khor, and 100 km northwest of Al Wakrah. The Aswan Quarries are to its southeast. Umm Bab is situated on the Dukhan anticline, a group of folds which runs in a NNW to SSE direction parallel with the western coast. Common vegetation found in Umm Bab include date palms (Phoenix dactylifera) on the coast, alaqool (Alhagi maurorum) in disturbed sandy soils, arta (Calligonum comosum) in sand dunes, shawla (Reseda arabica), halaq (Astragalus annularis), qalam (Arthrocaulon macrostachyum) in salt marshes, torba (Silene conica) rarely on the side of the highway, hadh (Cornulaca aucheri), jalwa (Atractylis carduus), shajarat (Ifloga spicata), bagraa (Launaea mucronata), Pallenis hierochuntica, and Polycarpaea repens. Inhabitants of the village of Umm Bab have aired their grievances to the government of negative health effects from living in such close proximity (within ) of the cement plant as a result of air pollution. Furthermore, much of the natural flora has been harmed by quarrying operations. At the clay quarry, about south of the village, incomplete excavation has resulted in a series of small hillocks topped with lone trees surrounded by excavated earth.
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