Desalination infrastructure is crucial in arid region with very little rainfall and few rivers and lakes
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Iran has threatened “irreversible destruction” of water infrastructure across Gulf countries, if the US follows through on Donald Trump’s threat to attack Iran’s electricity grid.
In a desert region heavily dependent on desalination for drinking water, it has raised fear of mass disruption to water supplies which are a civilian and economic lifeline in Gulf countries of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman.
Iran has already follow through on this threat earlier in the war, when it targeted a desalination plant in Bahrain, after one of its own plants was hit.
