RE: Oil and gas madness monday9 Mar 2026 16:41
Water - from international intrigue….
“ With crude now up almost 70% in less than two weeks, recording the biggest intra-day price surge in almost half a century, oil understandably dominates the headlines.
But another liquid is rattling the region, too: Saturday’s hit on Iran's Qeshm desalination plant prompted an Iranian hit on a water desal facility in Bahrain the very next day (then just hours ago, the Iranians hit Bahrain’s main oil refinery).
The point? It looks like asymmetrical warfare against soft, high-impact targets to (say) force Iran's regime to talk, or force Bahrain (home to the US Fifth Fleet) to pressure the US.
But that's ultra-high stakes in a region where desal provides nearly all drinking water — we’re talking 90% for Kuwait, 86% for Oman, and 70% for the Saudis, for example. So if this tit-for-tat continues, you're potentially looking at mass city evacuations.”
Trek