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Quote:Trump is Targeting Iran’s Fragile Water Infrastructure, Puts the Whole Region in Danger
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By Nik Kowsar, Alireza Nader | March 9, 2026, 3:56 PM
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/09/iran-water-drought-desalination/?
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For decades, the world has viewed conflict in the Middle East through a familiar lens: the price of oil, the range of missiles, and the sterile language of deterrence. But the most dangerous threshold in the current war may lie elsewhere. The infrastructure that keeps civilians alive by providing water, power, and sanitation is now a target of American airpower.
On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the United States of striking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island, saying the attack disrupted water supplies to 30 villages. Major outlets have reported the accusation, though independent verification remains limited. Bahrain, in turn, has accused Iran of damaging a desalination plant in a drone attack, suggesting that water infrastructure may already be entering the cycle of retaliation.
The old cliche says that in the Middle East, oil is power. That may still be true for markets and states. But oil cannot hydrate a child, keep a hospital sanitary, or prevent disease when sewage systems fail. Water does that.
If water infrastructure is now considered a military target, whether deliberately or through reckless escalation, then the region is entering a far more dangerous phase of war. International humanitarian law gives special protection to drinking water installations and supplies as objects indispensable to civilian survival, meaning that striking desalination infrastructure would face an exceptionally high legal bar—one that would require it to be an extraordinarily valuable military target as well.
In practice, however, civilians do not experience a distinction between abstract legal terms like “collateral damage” and “deliberate targeting.” They experience the impact when the taps stop.
That risk is especially grave in the Persian Gulf, where desalination is not a backup system but the backbone of daily life. The International Energy Agency notes that desalinated water supplies most daily water needs in countries including Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. A World Bank report similarly notes that nearly 44 percent of global desalination capacity is concentrated in the Gulf Cooperation Council market.
That concentration has created a vulnerability of extraordinary scale. These plants are technically complex, dependent on specialized parts and skilled operators. They are also highly energy-intensive, which means that a strike on the grid, fuel supply, or associated logistics can shut down water service just as effectively as a direct hit on the plant itself. And because supply is centralized, a successful strike, sabotage operation, or cyberattack against a small number of facilities can produce a humanitarian crisis affecting millions.
Kaveh Madani, the director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health, has warned that the reported strike on Qeshm should be understood as a regional alarm bell. As he points out, millions across the Middle East depend on desalination, and any damage to water infrastructure, intentional or accidental, creates a dangerous precedent. Once civilian water systems are exposed in war, the argument over motive starts to matter less than the result. People lose access to drinking water, and an already unstable region moves one step closer to a preventable humanitarian crisis.
This is why the reported strike on Qeshm, if confirmed, would set a dangerous precedent—a phrase that, in this context, is not
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Trump: "No Other President Could Do Some Of The Shit I'm Doing"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/03/09/trump_no_other_pres
ident_could_do_some_of_the_sh-t_im_doing.html
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You DO realize that while Iran is only 2% dependent on desalination, the rest of the nations in the region depend on desalination for 70-95% of their water, including Israel, right? And in a water war, Iran is the winner?
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Trump: "No Other President Could Do Some Of The Shit I'm Doing"
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ident_could_do_some_of_the_sh-t_im_doing.html
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You DO realize that while Iran is only 2% dependent on desalination, the rest of the nations in the region depend on desalination for 70-95% of their water, including Israel, right? And in a water war, Iran is the winner?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
The average person lives 3 to 5 days without water. Probably quite a bit less than that if you live in a sand-filled shithole desert.
This looks like a problem that will take care of itself to me.
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Trump is Targeting Iran’s Fragile Water Infrastructure, Puts the Whole Region in Danger
SIX:
Good.
SIGNY:
You DO realize that while Iran is only 2% dependent on desalination, the rest of the nations in the region depend on desalination for 70-95% of their water, including Israel, right? And in a water war, Iran is the winner?
SIX:
The average person lives 3 to 5 days without water. Probably quite a bit less than that if you live in a sand-filled shithole desert.
This looks like a problem that will take care of itself to me.
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So, you don't care who dies, as long as they all die?
At what point does "Don't be a dick" collide with mass murder?
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Trump: "No Other President Could Do Some Of The Shit I'm Doing"
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ident_could_do_some_of_the_sh-t_im_doing.html
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Trump is Targeting Iran’s Fragile Water Infrastructure, Puts the Whole Region in Danger
SIX:
Good.
SIGNY:
You DO realize that while Iran is only 2% dependent on desalination, the rest of the nations in the region depend on desalination for 70-95% of their water, including Israel, right? And in a water war, Iran is the winner?
SIX:
The average person lives 3 to 5 days without water. Probably quite a bit less than that if you live in a sand-filled shithole desert.
This looks like a problem that will take care of itself to me.
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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
So, you don't care who dies, as long as they all die?
At what point does "Don't be a dick" collide with mass murder?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
I don't buy into any of this narrative in the first place, Sigs.
And even if it is all absolutely true, that means the entire region surrounding Iran has allowed itself to become completely dependent upon Iran to sustain life and they deserve what they get if they really can't provide any water for their own people if Iran is hit. If they can't provide clean, drinkable water for themselves, that means that they have LITERALLY ENSLAVED THEMSELVES TO THE IRAN REGIME FOR DECADES.
It ain't my fucking problem. And it's not yours either. Nor is it ANY American Citizen's problem.
Do not attempt to emotionally blackmail me or foist your suicidal empathy on my head. I've had quite enough of Ted and Second and the deranged 11% of America-hating leftists doing that to me over the last 12 years. I don't fucking need it from you now too, and you're going to get the same type of replies from me that both of those retards have earned if you keep this bullshit up.
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https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/issues/mi
litary-action-iran
Aggregate support for the Iran situation is now at 44.1%, which is now higher than both Trump's Approval rating (43.4%) and his Favorability rating (42.1%).
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-
rating
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump
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Quote:This is so garbled I have no idea what you're trying to say. NOBODY in the Mideast depends on Iran, which has been sanctioned for decades. WTF, SIX? How can you be so abysmally ignorant... and still post about it?
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Trump: "No Other President Could Do Some Of The Shit I'm Doing"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/03/09/trump_no_other_pres
ident_could_do_some_of_the_sh-t_im_doing.html
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Trump is Targeting Iran’s Fragile Water Infrastructure, Puts the Whole Region in Danger
SIX:
Good.
SIGNY:
You DO realize that while Iran is only 2% dependent on desalination, the rest of the nations in the region depend on desalination for 70-95% of their water, including Israel, right? And in a water war, Iran is the winner?
SIX:
The average person lives 3 to 5 days without water. Probably quite a bit less than that if you live in a sand-filled shithole desert.
This looks like a problem that will take care of itself to me.
SIGNY:
So, you don't care who dies, as long as they all die?
At what point does "Don't be a dick" collide with mass murder?
SIX:
I don't buy into any of this narrative in the first place, Sigs.
And even if it is all absolutely true, that means the entire region surrounding Iran has allowed itself to become completely dependent upon Iran to sustain life
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and they deserve what they get if they really can't provide any water for their own people if Iran is hit. If they can't provide clean, drinkable water for themselves, that means that they have LITERALLY ENSLAVED THEMSELVES TO THE IRAN REGIME FOR DECADES.
Iran is not supplying them with water. Jeez, would it cost you to learn at least SOME basic facts before you go off on some sort of bizarre rant?
Quote:THEN WHAT ARE WE DOING THERE?
It ain't my fucking problem. And it's not yours either. Nor is it ANY American Citizen's problem.
Quote:It's only "suicidal" if you believe Utsn is our enemy
Then what the fuck
Do not attempt to emotionally blackmail me or foist your suicidal empathy on my head.
Well, Iran wasn't our enemy, BUT IT IS NOW.
Trump did that.
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I've had quite enough of Ted and Second and the deranged 11% of America-hating leftists doing that to me over the last 12 years. I don't fucking need it from you now too, and you're going to get the same type of replies from me that both of those retards have earned if you keep this bullshit up.
Whatever.
For a smart man you're unbelievably, abysymally ignorant about some things. And yet, you insist on posting about them.
You should listen to this
It's about you and that 44%
You'll have to copy the URL and go there.
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Your link is broken.
Just like your asinine post.
No thanks.
I'm just going to continue to be right and tune out the noise.
You're just as bad as Ted and Second are.
Your opinion regarding politics or world events is unnecessary and needs no further consideration.
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