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Iranian strike damages Kuwait desalination plant, exposing water vulnerability
Iranian missile strike damaged Kuwait's Shuaiba desalination plant, a critical facility supplying 60% of the country's drinking water, exposing infrastructure vulnerability in the Gulf region to military escalation.
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The Wire takeaway
If you're building water treatment, storage or resilience tech for the Middle East, your customer's single plant just became a military target. The Gulf now needs distributed, hardened, or mobile desalination capacity - that's your contract.
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Topics: Water Tech · desalination · water-security · gulf-infrastructure · military-risk · critical-systems