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Saudi Arabia has no permanent rivers

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Covering over 800,000 square miles, you will not find a single perennial stream of water in the entire country. To keep millions of people alive without a river, the kingdom relies entirely on an intensely expensive network of desalination plants that furiously turn seawater into something drinkable.

Saudi Arabia has no permanent rivers
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