Minister of Equipment and Water, Nizar Baraka, said, on Tuesday at the House of Advisors, that water desalination remains a priority for managing the water deficit, which has become structural, given the repercussions of global warming.
Responding to oral questions, Baraka noted that by 2030, 50% of drinking water supply will be provided by desalination, pointing out that the government has put in place a plan to build several desalination plants in order to reach a production level of 1.4 billion m3 by that date.
The Minister also specified that OCP will be responsible for desalinating 560 million m3, stressing that 500 million m3 of water will be used for agriculture, while the remaining volume will be used to supply drinking water to citizens.
According to the government plan, coastal towns will be equipped with desalination plants, as part of a partnership between the public and private sectors, which means that they will not benefit from dam water that will be used to meet the needs of inland towns a
nd rural areas, as well as for irrigation.
The Minister also explained that, to tackle the problem of water stress, the government has adopted an approach based on solidarity between coastal and inland towns, by extending drinking water supply channels and relieving pressure on dams, whose water will be destined for inland regions, the rural world and the agricultural sector.
Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse
GAZA: The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said tonight that the Israeli occupation forces continued tonight the artillery bombardment of several houses and sites in and around the Al-Amal Hospital and the PRCS headquarters in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, causing fragments to fall near the ambulance center and the headquarters of the said hospital.
PRCS stressed in a statement that violent artillery fire against targets less than a hundred meters away from the hospital is increasing.
It added that these violations continue unabated since yesterday’s direct targeting of the eighth and seventh floors of the PRCS headquarters, which shelters thousands of displaced people, resulting in the killing of five people, including a newborn less than five days old, and the injury of three others.
PRCS said the occupation’s targeting of its transmission tower is hampering the work of the ambulance crews, especially in light of losing all means of communications with Khan Yunis government, i
n the southern Strip.
Since the start of Israel’s all-out aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on October 7th, hospitals, medical facilities and ambulances, which are protected under international law, have not been spared from the occupation’s targeting; through shelling, the imposition of sieges and the killing and detention of medical personnel.
Tuesday afternoon, Israeli occupation jets shelled the seventh and eighth floors of PRCS headquarters in Khan Yunis, where thousands of displaced persons are seeking refuge, killing and injuring several people, including the newborn.
Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA