On November 5th, 2020 in Tunis, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) pledged to reduce water stress in North Africa through a regional initiative called “Water stress and climate change in North Africa”. For several years now, the region has been helplessly suffering from the ravages of climate change. As a result of this recurrent violence against the environment, North Africa is currently experiencing an average temperature increase that is 20% higher than the global average. The initiative aims at exploiting non-conventional water resources to preserve the dwindling freshwater resources in the country of the pharaohs. AFD supportThe “Water Stress and Climate Change in North Africa” initiative is also expected to promote sub-regional knowledge sharing on the challenges and solutions to address the scarcity of surface and groundwater resources in North Africa.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 10, 2020 10:52 UTC