🚨 THE US JUST BOMBED A WATER PLANT. READ THAT AGAIN: America just struck a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Isla

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Security experts have long warned that the Gulf's reliance on centralised desalination infrastructure represents one of the most dangerous pressure points in any Middle East conflict.

A leaked 2008 US diplomatic cable from Riyadh warned that Saudi Arabia's capital would have to be evacuated within a week if the Jubail desalination plant, its pipelines, or associated power infrastructure were seriously damaged, adding that the Saudi government's structure could not function without it.

The Jubail complex, located on Saudi Arabia's eastern coast, supplies more than 90 percent of Riyadh's drinking water through a pipeline stretching roughly 500 kilometres inland.

Qatar's prime minister warned last year that any attack on Iran's nuclear facilities could contaminate the region's waters and threaten life in Qatar, the UAE, and Kuwait, and disclosed that Qatar had once assessed it could run out of potable water in just three days in such a scenario, leading Doha to build 15 massive water reservoirs as emergency reserves.

Despite these fears, Iran has so far refrained from directly targeting Gulf desalination facilities during the current conflict, even as it has struck airports, hotels, ports, oil installations, and energy infrastructure across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman over the past week.

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/iran-condemns-us-attack-on-iranian-desalination-plant-issues-a-veiled-threat-3215797