Ooh-Rah

Even though this is the only subject that every single local that I've spoken to in the last few days wants to talk about (and they all seem to have roughly the same opinion, not unlike those expressed here), clearly this is something that we need to stop talking about forthwith:

Qatari sympathisers to face fine, jail | GulfNews.com

jeeze!

Not so sure about that - if Iran start shipping in food and what not, can imagine the Saudi's kicking off about that.

Hope nothing effects Oman - heading there for a few days for Eid hols.

Two more: The Union of Comoros, and Mauritania.

backstabbing each other

News reports are stating that people in Qatar are cleaning out supermarket shelves of food & water . Why water? Doesn't Qatar get most of its potable water from aquifers and its own desalination plants?

It makes sense to have a store of bottled drinking water. Qatar has a single desalination/ electricity plant (Ras Abu Fontas) and only carries half a day's strategic water storage. The aquifers are used in a few areas for farming, but overabstraction and lack of sanitation have left many contaminated with seawater and sewage. They do produce their own bottled water that's been through an RO plant, and is popular.

The only shortages that I've heard of are milk and fresh chicken, both sourced from Saudi.

They can't live without their pumped full of chemicals chickens. Worst chicken in the world.

You know the fresh Saudi milk comes from powdered New Zealand milk reconstituted?

The also produce their own milk from dairy cows, on an inductrial scale.

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Love the Irish accent.

Great video, thank you. My understanding was that the reconstituted milk was made in the summer months when the cows yield obviously dropped due to the heat.

Fresh milk back on the shelves today, all the way from Turkey

Still no fresh chicken

Just realised. I haven't bought milk for weeks. Never use the stuff. Nasty.

Big chicken factories in Jordan and Oman. It will arrive.