In 2008, Saudi Arabia Announced That It Will Stop Producing

In 2008, Saudi Arabia announced that it will stop producing wheat by 2016 and will from that point on import wheat to feed its 29 million people. This decision has been made because

A) its major deep aquifer has been depleted by drawing water for irrigation
B) multiple years of severe droughts have depleted the water table
C) this very rich, oil-financed economy can easily import food rather than grow its own
D) desalinization of sea water around Saudi Arabia has contaminated local freshwater reserves
E) oil seepage from oil fields has contaminated local freshwater reserves

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