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YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - California 'has failed its people' with desalination efforts: Rep. Hageman

Rep Harriet Hageman joins "Katie Pavlich Tonight" to discuss her belief that California is refusing to expand its desalination efforts. "Katie Pavlich Tonight" offers a conservative take on the day’s events while welcoming all viewpoints. The goal: cutting through left-right bias in pursuit of plain facts and honest analysis.

AI:Representative Harriet Hageman asserts that California’s leadership has fundamentally failed its constituents by refusing to expand desalination efforts to combat water scarcity. This refusal highlights the catastrophic mismanagement and ideological rigidity characterizing the state's governance, prioritizing leftist agendas over basic infrastructural survival.Open

NYTIMES (Zane Irwin) - Water Plants Under Fire in the Gulf Are Crucial to Civilians

Several days of airstrikes have hit water and energy plants in Kuwait, a nation that relies on desalination for 90 percent of its drinking water.

NYTIMES (Matthew Cullen) - Bridges and Water Plants Attacked as Iran War Escalates

Also, U.S. start-up activity is booming. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

NYTIMES (Scott Dance) - Western States Need Water. San Diego Has Extra. Will They Make A Deal?

San Diego County is shopping a surplus of desalinated seawater to Western states that are facing increasingly urgent drought and short supplies.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Sam Faddis) - Did the Pakistanis just put nukes in Saudi Arabia?

Originally published by AND Magazine

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have a mutual defense treaty . It is billed as a reciprocal accord. It is really transactional. The Saudis give the Pakistanis billions of dollars to prop up their collapsing economy. The Pakistanis pledge to provide a “nuclear umbrella” to Saudi Arabia. Pakistan has roughly 200 operational nuclear warheads. Those weapons can be delivered by Pakistani F-16’s obtained from the United States. There are now Pakistani F-16s on the ground in Saudi Arabia. They were accompanied by multiple support aircraft and support personnel. “The F-16 combat aircraft, along with some Mirage III and V aircraft, are believed to be dual-capable (capable of both conventional and nuclear strikes) and constitute the air…Open

AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - Trump pursues era of unshackled warfare

President Trump's threat to bomb Iran's water supply would constitute his most dramatic breach of the laws and norms designed to protect civilians in wartime. Why it matters: The Iran war is the biggest test of what Trump's contempt for "politically correct" war-fighting looks like in practice. - His administration has already signed off on Israeli assassinations of political leaders, threatened "no quarter" for enemy combatants, and initially rejected responsibility for a mass casualty strike on an elementary school. - But the U.S. has been almost exclusively targeting Iran's military and nuclear program up to now. - The threat to hit civilian infrastructure shows how intent Trump is on finding ways to increase the pressure on…

NEWSCATS (Diana Zapata) - Iran Threatens to “Wipe Out” Middle East Water Supply if Conflict Escalates

Modern Water’s containerised forward osmosis desalination plant, located at Al Khaluf in Oman. Published March 23, 2026 Tensions in the Middle East are rapidly intensifying as Iran issues a stark warning: any major attack on [...]

NYTIMES (Lisa Friedman) - War Brings New Water Crises to an Already-Parched Iran

Iran has accused the United States of bombing a desalination plant on Qeshm Island. The country was already facing a severe water shortage.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Sam Faddis) - Dying of thirst in the Middle East?

Originally published by AND Magazine

History never fades away in the Middle East. What is ancient history to most Americans is alive and well in the minds of the people of this region. We would do well to remember that. In 1187, knights of the Crusader kingdoms in what is now Israel and Lebanon marched out into the desert to confront Islamic forces under the command of the Muslim General Saladin. What ensued sealed the fate of the Christians in the Middle East. As the Crusaders advanced, Saladin retreated and drew them into the desert. As he withdrew, however, Saladin posted cavalry at all springs along the route, denying the Christian forces access to water. His troops also set the brush on fire, choking the Crusaders in smoke. It was July. The heat was intense. The…Open