Over the past few years, Tunisia has recorded a significant decline in water rates, as a result of the decline in rainfall during this winter, as well as the absence of a clear strategy to deal with the disposal of water wealth, and the interruption of drinking water in some interior areas of the country, especially during the summer, is a key problem that calls for a program to ensure tunisians’ right to water in the coming years.
The absence of a clear strategy deepens the crisis In the same context, environmental and climate expert Hamdi Hashad told Jdd-tunsie, that the main reason behind the scarcity of water wealth in the country is mainly caused by global warming caused by increased amounts of greenhouse gases as the temperature rises and the level of rainfall decreases, Hashad added that the state should continue to find solutions to the problem of water distribution and rationalization, knowing that per capita reached 24 cubic meters, during 2021, and the expert continued that Tunisian dams are suffering from a severe water shortage in the absence of an effective program that will reduce the repercussions of the upcoming water crisis.
Difficult decade for the agricultural sector Wasim Salauti, a farmer, described the country’s water resources as catastrophic, adding that most farmers were forced to leave strong agriculture due to water scarcity and scarcity and the decline in the level of dams to the limits of 30 percent of the capacity, in addition to the lack of development of dams and the disruption of the construction of other dams since 2010, and Salauti denounced the laxity of successive governments in developing an effective strategy to solve the crisis, which will double in the coming years, he said.
A daunting task for the next government The task of developing a program on the country’s water resources is one of the most difficult tasks that remains pending the next government, as the problems of the interruption of drinkable water are no longer limited to the interior, but extended during the 2021 class to reach the capital, amid a fragile and fragmented political scene and the absence of a reform vision in the presence of a major environmental threat to the lives of Tunisians in the future.
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