Tunisia Adopts Water Resource Management Solutions

(MENAFN- Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA)) São Paulo – Tunisia adopted a series of measures last Tuesday (25) to expand water supply and approve a regulatory framework to determine the management of water resources in the country. The measures were announced by the state news agency TAP following a cabinet meeting led by Prime Minister Kamel Madouri.

Among the measures adopted in the meeting is submitting a final version of the Water Code to the Council of Ministers. The current Water Code dates back to 1975 and needs to be updated to align with current demands and adapted to climate change, according to an analysis by the Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources, and Fisheries, Ridha Kabbouj.

The sector's infrastructure is set to receive investments this year to complete the construction of the Mellègue and Douimiss dams, as well as the Kalaa Kebira and Said reservoirs. In addition, two other dams, Raghai and Kalled, are expected to begin construction. Funds will also be allocated for the construction of wells over a thousand meters deep in the governorates of Kef and Nabeul.

The construction of 127 treatment stations is planned to ensure the supply of drinking water and its use for agriculture, as well as 61 stations for producing water for crop irrigation. A desalination plant will be completed in the city of Sousse, providing another source of water supply. Seven more units of this type are planned in the country.

On the same day the cabinet met, Tunisia's president, Kais Saied, received the prime minister and the minister of Agriculture at the Presidential Palace in Carthage. He called for measures to adopt the regulatory framework that meets the people's needs and criticized the water supply system of some dams.

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Translated by Guilherme Miranda

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