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Tunisia Officially Classified Below Water Poverty Line


Tue 27 Dec 2022 | 03:51 PM
Israa Farhan

Tunisia was officially classified below the water poverty line, due to the acute water crisis and the increasing population.

Moez Al-Huraizi, a specialist in digital delivery and technology for the national organization, said today, Tuesday, that Tunisia has been officially classified below the water poverty line.

Al-Huraizi added, in a statement to "Shams FM" radio, that Tunisia is experiencing an acute water crisis due to the lack of rain and the increasing population.

He called on all state structures and civil society to be on full alert in order to find more than urgent solutions.

The Tunisian Ministry of the Environment looks with concern at the expansion of the drought environment, which it says has turned into "a real, tangible and disturbing reality that must be adapted and managed to limit its negative effects."

The ministry highlighted that it published on the occasion of the International Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, last June, that 75% of the national territory is threatened with desertification and that a dry year is recorded every three years, especially in the central and southern regions.

The ministry confirmed that it had set a national goal to protect 2.2 million hectares of land from degradation by 2030, through the implementation of sectoral strategies related to forests, conservation of water, soil, and wet areas, development of pastures, resistance to sand encroachment, and sustainable agricultural activities in various regions.

A previous study by the environment ministry on the repercussions of climate change on the economy predicted that Tunisia would suffer a severe shortage of grain crops due to drought, at a rate of one-third of the cultivated area, to reach only one million hectares by 2030.