VOA
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Saudi Arabia's growing desalination needs risk clashing with its sustainability goals, including achieving net-zero emissions by 2060 .
Saudi Arabia first turned to desalinating more than a century ago , when Ottoman-era administrators enlisted filtration machines for hajj pilgrims.
The search for potable water bedeviled Saudi Arabia in the first decades after its founding in 1932 , spurring geological surveys that contributed to the mapping of its massive oil reserves.
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