Algeria’s newly appointed Minister of Water Resources, Lounas Bouzekza, chaired his first official meeting this Sunday with senior ministry officials, directors-general of supervised institutions, and the Secretary-General of the Water Sector Federation.<\/p>\n
Speaking exclusively to dzwatch<\/strong>, the minister expressed deep gratitude to the President of the Republic for the trust placed in him, and outlined a clear action plan for the sector.<\/p>\n Bouzekza stressed the urgent need for teamwork to address citizens’ concerns, particularly improving the continuity of safe drinking water across all regions of the country.<\/p>\n Key directives issued include preparing an emergency action plan ahead of Eid Al-Adha and the summer season, conducting a thorough diagnostic of sector shortcomings, and enhancing transparency with citizens during water outages.<\/p>\n The minister also called for rational management of both conventional and non-conventional water resources \u2014 including desalination and treated wastewater reuse \u2014 while combating waste, illegal connections, and accelerating ongoing infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Algeria’s newly appointed Minister of Water Resources, Lounas Bouzekza, chaired his first official meeting this Sunday with senior ministry officials, directors-general of supervised institutions, and the Secretary-General of the Water Sector Federation. Speaking exclusively to dzwatch, the minister expressed deep gratitude to the President of the Republic for the trust placed in him, and outlined …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}