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By 2030, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) will be very short of water.

The World Bank predicts people will have less than the necessary amount.

Tunisia's in its fourth year of very little rain.

It's building special 'plants', where salt is removed from seawater.

Sometimes the plants recycle dirty water instead.

Farmer Lotfi Atyaoui couldn't farm without the plant.

Tunisia's first plants were developed in the 1970s.

They cleaned up salty water in the ground.

The first plant to remove salt from seawater was built in 2018.

Today, the country's 16 plants provide 6 percent of drinking water.

The rest is taken from a group of 37 lakes.

The problem is that these lakes are only one third full.

New plants are certainly needed.

But at the same time, these industries use unclean energy, like oil or gas.

SONEDE - the water company which is building one new plant - says it understands the issue.

Such plants are one major solution here.

And the same thing's happening across the MENA region, as the water situation gets worse.

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