“If we don’t have water, we will lose our agriculture, our trees, and our livestock,” warns Lofti Atyaoui, a Tunisian farmer who relies on treated wastewater to irrigate his crops as Tunisia invests in water treatment and desalination plants to combat water shortages. Despite criticism for its high-energy consumption, Tunisia is building a new seawater desalination plant in the south, which local CEO says is “the only solution for the MENA region.”
With AFP
