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

Moez Al-Harizi, a specialist in delivery and digital technology for the national organization, said today 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."

Al-Huraizy 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."

A previous study by the Tunisian Ministry of Environment 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.
Source: agencies