Airstrike disables Iran's Qeshm Island desalination plant

An air strike has put one of Qeshm Island’s desalination plants out of service, leaving residents without a short-term solution for drinking water, officials say.

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31 March 2026 at 09:51:33

Airstrike disables Iran's Qeshm Island desalination plant

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of the island of Qeshm, separated from the Iranian mainland by the Clarence Strait, December 10, 2023.

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One of the desalination plants on Iran's Qeshm Island has been out of service since being hit by an air strike, an official from the Health Ministry told Iranian media on Tuesday, without saying when the strike occurred.

"Drinking water on Qeshm Island is provided by desalination plants. One of the desalination plants on Qeshm Island was targeted and is completely out of service as it is not possible to repair it in the short term," the Health Ministry's head of the Environmental and Occupational Health Centre said, according to the news outlet Borna.

Iran said earlier in March that a desalination plant on Qeshm Island was targeted in air strikes.

-Reporting by Dubai Newsroom;Editing by Bernadette Baum/Reuters