Missiles hit the desalination pumps and the power supply at the Bonji plant at Jask, in Iran's Hormozgan province, cutting water to about 20 villages and an estimated 10,000 people; Iranian media attributed the strike to US forces1. Jask sits on the Gulf of Oman just outside the Strait of Hormuz, and the plant supplies the surrounding settlements with drinking water drawn from the sea.
The mechanism matters more than the munition. Desalination on this coast runs on electricity, and Bonji's pumps stopped when its power feed did, so the loss of supply followed from the loss of the grid connection rather than from damage to the membranes or the intake. Restoring water means restoring power first, and repair crews working under continued bombardment do that slowly.
CENTCOM has not itemised the target, and no US statement addresses Bonji. Whatever the intent, villages that depended on one plant now depend on tankered water. The same class of facility has been struck in the opposite direction inside the same week, at Kuwait's Shuaiba complex, and Iranian drones had already struck a pair of Kuwaiti plants of this type in April. Jask leaves Iran on the receiving end of a target class it opened.
