Terminating the duties of the Algerian Water Directorate and the Water Resources Director for the state of Tiaret – New Algeria

The guardian authorities decided to terminate the duties of Mahmoudi Khathir, director of water resources for the state of Tiaret, as well as Charif Khoja Mounir, director of the Algerian Water Corporation. Current unit.

Recently, a ministerial delegation arrived in the state of Tiaret in order to establish a situation Emergency programme And the exceptional. To solve the problems of providing the residents of Tiaret with drinking water.

The Minister of Interior, Ibrahim Murad, arrived accompanied by the Minister of Water Resources, Taha Darbal, in implementation of the instructions of the President of the Republic during the Council of Ministers yesterday. By order of the President of the Republic to find a solution to the water crisis taking place in the state.

He was the President of the Republic Abdel Majeed TebbouneDuring his presidency of a Cabinet meeting, he ordered the preparation of an urgent and exceptional program to solve the drinking water problem in Tiaret.

During a Cabinet meeting, the President of the Republic was given 48 hours at most to develop a program to solve the problem Drinking water in streams

President Tebboune also gave instructions to complete the water diversion project from the Sharqi Dam area, at a distance of 42 km.

This year, the city of Tiaret and several other areas in the state are witnessing a real crisis and a major fluctuation in the supply of potable water, as a result of the significant decline in the level of the Ben Khedda Dam, the main supply for the population of the state, and 12 other municipalities, as it reached its lowest levels this year, reaching The quantities of water collected are approximately six million cubic metres, which is a very small percentage, especially since we are nominally at the height of the heat season, and this requires additional quantities of this vital substance.

This decline in the quantities of water stored in the dam was due to the accumulations of years of drought and lack of rain that the state of Tiaret has experienced in recent years, which affected the level of surface water directed for human consumption or that directed for agricultural irrigation and livestock raising, which forced the local authorities to reconsider the water level. The process of distributing water in the city’s neighborhoods, in line with the existing stock.