(MENAFN- Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA)) São Paulo – Algeria, an Arab country in Africa, is implementing a national strategy to address the impacts of climate change on water resources and has recently opened five water desalination plants, according to a statement made on Thursday (20) by the Minister of Hydraulic Resources, Taha Derbal, Algeria's press agency APS reported.

The country's national water security policy is based on a carefully studied strategy grounded in various options, including the increasing use of unconventional water resources to alleviate water scarcity, the minister said during a visit to the province of Mostaganem.

According to Derbal, the level of water security has advanced significantly thanks to the strengthening provided by the national desalination plant network, where the five new desalination units were implemented. The measure allowed desalinated water to account for between 40% and 42% of the drinking water consumed in Algeria, the minister said.

In addition to other measures, Derbal mentioned the wastewater treatment plants, which are part of the strategy and total 230 across the country, as well as the program for rehabilitating and constructing new units. Efforts are also underway to curb illegal connections and water losses, among other actions to ensure the rational use and equitable distribution of water resources in the country.

During the visit, Derbal put two artesian wells into operation as part of a program aimed at strengthening the water supply in 16 villages, inspected the wastewater and stormwater pumping station in the El-Borjia industrial zone, and presented the landscape irrigation projects in Mostaganem and the tertiary treatment at the Salamandre purification plant.

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Translated by Guilherme Miranda

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