Tuesday, June 11, 2023- The minister of higher education and scientific research, Mr. KamelBaddari and the minister of irrigation, Mr. TahaDerbal, chaired a coordinative meeting at the headquarters of the ministry of irrigation -in Kouba, Algiers. The meeting aimed at promoting joint action in the field of formation and scientific research, in order to modernize and develop water public service and have more control over modern technics and technologies of irrigation.

Both ministers also affirmed that ‘the new data imposed by climate changes- which are impacting significantly the sector of irrigation- are moving us into finding more sustainable alternative solutions, in order to provide water resources that cannot be affected by climate changes, and achieve water security’. In addition to that, the ministers noted to the scientific project -released by a group of universities, the national agency of water resources, and the national agency of integrated management-, which consist in setting a mathematical model aiming at collecting updated data on water in the South of Algeria. In addition to another scientific project developed by the University of SidiBel Abbes and the national office of Sanitation, on the purification of wastewaterusing ozone purification technologies, which arecurrently considered among the mostcommonly used technologies in the developed countries. This technology guarantees pure and treated water that can be used in other fields.