This is the situation in Qatar: … We only have two days of water reserve, we import 90 percent of our food, and we only cultivate less than one percent of our land.

Al-Attiya’s statement compresses Qatar’s structural vulnerabilities into three stark metrics: extremely limited potable-water storage, heavy dependence on imported food, and minimal arable land under cultivation. The quote functions as a policy alarm bell—suggesting that national security in a desert, hydrocarbon-rich state is inseparable from water and food security. By foregrounding reserves and import dependence, it implies exposure to supply-chain disruption, geopolitical shocks, and climate stress, and it implicitly justifies investments in desalination resilience, strategic reserves, agricultural innovation, and diversification of import routes and suppliers.