{"id":217849,"date":"2026-04-06T19:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217849"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:48:03","slug":"theres-a-commodity-even-more-vital-than-oil-and-gas-in-the-middle-east-and-its-at-risk-as-war-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217849","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a commodity even more vital than oil and gas in the Middle East \u2014 and it\u2019s at risk as war heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On particularly bad, sleepless nights, Sofia finds herself worrying about whether the taps might run dry. \u201cWe are, at the end of the day, in a desert,\u201d said the United Arab Emirates resident. Oil and gas may be at the heart of the economy, but water is \u201cthe basis of our survival.\u201d As the Iran \u2026<br \/>\nThe post There\u2019s a commodity even more vital than oil and gas in the Middle East \u2014 and it\u2019s at risk as war heats up appeared first on Egypt Independent&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/theres-a-commodity-even-more-vital-than-oil-and-gas-in-the-middle-east-and-its-at-risk-as-war-heats-up\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On particularly bad, sleepless nights, Sofia finds herself worrying about whether the taps might run<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uae"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217849-theres-a-commodity-even-more-vital-than-oil-and-gas-in-the-middle-east-and-its-at-risk-as-69d40e0f60221.jpg",1044,586,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217849-theres-a-commodity-even-more-vital-than-oil-and-gas-in-the-middle-east-and-its-at-risk-as-69d40e0f60221-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217849-theres-a-commodity-even-more-vital-than-oil-and-gas-in-the-middle-east-and-its-at-risk-as-69d40e0f60221-300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217849-theres-a-commodity-even-more-vital-than-oil-and-gas-in-the-middle-east-and-its-at-risk-as-69d40e0f60221-768x431.jpg",640,359,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217849-theres-a-commodity-even-more-vital-than-oil-and-gas-in-the-middle-east-and-its-at-risk-as-69d40e0f60221-1024x575.jpg",640,359,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217849-theres-a-commodity-even-more-vital-than-oil-and-gas-in-the-middle-east-and-its-at-risk-as-69d40e0f60221.jpg",1044,586,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217849-theres-a-commodity-even-more-vital-than-oil-and-gas-in-the-middle-east-and-its-at-risk-as-69d40e0f60221.jpg",1044,586,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217849-theres-a-commodity-even-more-vital-than-oil-and-gas-in-the-middle-east-and-its-at-risk-as-69d40e0f60221-1024x575.jpg",1024,575,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217849-theres-a-commodity-even-more-vital-than-oil-and-gas-in-the-middle-east-and-its-at-risk-as-69d40e0f60221-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217849-theres-a-commodity-even-more-vital-than-oil-and-gas-in-the-middle-east-and-its-at-risk-as-69d40e0f60221-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=32\" rel=\"category\">United Arab Emirates<\/a>","tag_info":"United Arab Emirates","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}