The countries of the Arabian peninsula solve the problem of obtaining the scarcest resource by building industrial plants to remove the salt from seawater to use it for irrigation and drinking.
Answer: Option A
Step-by-step explanation:
- Water is the scarcest resource of the Arabian peninsula as being the desert land form.
- The availability of potable water is scarce and has access to saline water which cannot be drunk or used for irrigation.
- Therefore, industrially treated saline water removes salt from the sea water and then can be used for drinking and irrigation purpose.