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Desalination plants do not get destroyed by oil spills. All you gotta do is switch off the plant, lay out boom lines (avoid using dispersants) and start cleaning up. Meanwhile, there's days of water stored in tanks on shore and several months worth stored underground. UAE has 70 plants, so they'll manage.