How Gulf Countries Get Their Water

In these millennia, water can be similized as oxygen. Without water, it is almost impossible for living things to survive. We use water in massive number every single day to fulfil our basic necessities such as cooking, bathing and cleaning. It is so important that it even erupt a war; The Bolivian Water War of 2000. This essay is going to explain on problems that gulf countries face to obtain water and how they get their water.


Our country has sufficient sources of water because we are blessed with consistent rain throughout each year. We even have vast stretch of seas and rivers providing us enough water. However, have you ever thought about the gulf countries? The Oman’s for instance, face blaring heat everyday because they have very little annual rainfall. Since their countries are very hot and dry, the view of seas, rivers or ponds are almost impossible. Somehow, they manage to survive there.


According to Palm Water LLC, gulf countries spend around $133 billion in water and wastewater management annually. Making the price of water way too high compared to the price of gold. One of their ways of obtaining water is by wastewater reclamation and desalination. Water reclamation is a process where wastewater from homes is cleaned using biological and chemical treatment. Then, the water is returned to the environment safely to enhance the natural systems from which it came. It is used today as both an aquifer and stream enhancement strategy. While desalination is a process where salt and other minerals are removed from sea water. This would produce filtered water for drinking. They have to go a lot of hardships in order to get clean water for daily lives usage. It is proven how hard it is for them just to have water for drinking and bathing.


Therefore as Malaysians, we should be grateful and thankful that we never run out of water and never need too much effort in obtaining such necessities compared to those in gulf countries. We should never take water for granted, such as littering into the river, seas and ponds without the slightest guilt.

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