USA faces annual summer gasoline shortage, Saudis face annual summer water shortage

Contrary to what most people believe, geologically speaking, Saudi Arabia has at least one deficiency.

Just like oil, no one is making more water.

From the Arab News:

Queues of tankers built up round the Al-Safa water distribution center in Jeddah yesterday as the summer black market in water began. According to Abdul Rahman Muhammadi, director of water in Jeddah, a shortage of water in the storage tanks for the last 10 days is part of the problem. The other is that householders are downloading extra water from the delivery tankers.

"Many householders have fitted extra pumps," he said, “and they are using these to take water from the tankers.”

(My note: They're stealing water. Why not just say it?)

Muhammadi said his department had no new plan to face the perennial summertime water crisis. However, he emphasized that the department would supply more water to densely populated areas.