What happened: Recent attacks in the Middle East on desalination plants, facilities that remove salt from seawater, raise the potential for a humanitarian crisis if the region’s freshwater... The attacks also underscore the region’s heavy reliance on an energy-intensive method of producing drinking water that is...
Cross-source context: Mongabay highlights a deepening crisis in the Middle East could send economic shockwaves across sub-Saharan Africa, raising fuel costs, food prices and inflation across the region, according to... Roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas flows through the Strait of Hormuz between Iran,... Bloomberg highlights vietnam moved to cushion consumers from a sharp jump in fuel costs as the Middle East conflict stoked growing concerns over global energy supplies.
What to watch next: movement around desalination, highlight.