Water Desalination plant in Kuwait
“A service building at a power and water desalination plant was attacked as part of the Iranian aggression against the State of Kuwait, resulting in the death of an Indian worker and significant material damage to the building,” said Fatima Abbas Jawhar Hayat, a spokesperson for the electricity ministry.
Water desalination plants are crucial to water supplies in the Gulf Arab states. Kuwait relies on its desalination plants for 90 percent of its water needs. The facilities are typically paired with power plants because of the large amount of energy required to remove salt from the water to make it drinkable.
Earlier in the war, an Iranian attack damaged a desalination plant in Bahrain.
Since 28 February, US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran have targeted economic, power, and energy infrastructures in the country, and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes on US bases and energy and other targets in Arab Gulf countries disrupted global energy markets and raised concerns about the global economy.
Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said its forces detected and intercepted five ballistic missiles targeting its oil-rich Eastern Province. Bahrain issued a missile alert. A missile was intercepted over Dubai.
On Sunday, Iran said it had attacked two major aluminium plants in the Gulf in response to US-Israeli strikes that hit a quay in the port city of Bandar Khamir near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Sunday it launched missiles and drones at plants belonging to two of the world’s largest aluminium producers in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, targeting what it described as industries linked to the US military.
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) said an Iranian attack wounded six people and caused significant damage to its plant, while Bahraini state media said two Aluminium Bahrain (ALBA) employees were injured in a separate attack.
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