Sea Water
For a country that has no access to rivers and a massive population, drinking water is both a critical necessity and a miracle. Saudi Arabia has built the world’s largest desalination plant so that it can purify water from the sea for its citizens to drink.
The Infamous Stampede
Visiting the holy sites in Saudi Arabia to pray forever changed on September 24th, 2015. More than 2,000 worshipers died during the “2015 Mina Stampede” at the time of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. The investigation that followed the tragedy pointed fingers at overcrowding.