ALGIERS – Algerian Minister of Hydraulics, Taha Derbal, said on Tuesday in Algiers, that major financial resources, worth DZD900 billion, were allocated in the last few years with a view to implementing several projects aimed at strengthening water infrastructure.
In his speech during the Government-Walis meeting, which was chaired by President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, at the International Conference Center (CIC), Derbal said that “the major importance placed by the country’s high authorities on everything related to the life of the citizen is reflected in the significant support for the hydraulic sector, through the allocation of considerable financial resources over the past five years, amounting to nearly DZD906 billion, which has enabled the implementation of several projects.”
In this regard, an envelope of DZD188 billion has been allocated to the program for connecting seawater desalination plants to the potable water supply networks, 70 billion to the drilling of wells, and DZD34.83 billion to the rehabilitation and development program of wastewater treatment plants, as the first phase of a global program to which an amount of DZD155 billion has been allocated, the minister added.
Among the projects implemented thanks to these allocations, Derbal mentioned the project of connecting eight major seawater desalination plants to potable water supply networks, as well as the realization of eight major transfer projects, including interconnection projects for dams in different regions, in addition to the completion of works on the transfer project of water from the Guetrani field in the province of Bechar, with a total production capacity of around 80,000 cubic meters per day.
The Minister of Hydraulics also reported the realization of more than 1,200 wells for the supply of drinking water, the reception of 19 new filtration systems, the rehabilitation of 11 operated stations, as well as the renovation and extension of the sanitation networks over a length of 1,103 km, in addition to the launch of structural projects for the post-development of 6 dams with a total capacity estimated at 642 million m³.
