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Weaponisation of thirst: Gulf discovers water supply is a strategic liability as US eyes it to pay for war

The Arab world overwhelmingly depends on desalination plants for drinking water. As both the United States and Iran have indicated they would strike these plants in any new escalation, Arab countries are facing fresh costs in the conflict they did not start.

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