Tunisia: Making progress in sanitation and water resources management

Tunisia has, today, nothing to envy from the developed countries and is at the forefront in terms of sanitation and water resources management, in comparison with other developing countries or emerging said in Tunis, Mr. Nadhir Hamada, Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development, at a press briefing held on the occasion of the celebration of the World Water Day. The minister who showed journalists the major environmental indicators made by Tunisia, including the rate of access to safe drinking water (99.1% in urban areas and 42.4% in rural areas) in 2007 and Connection to sanitation services (87.5%) during the same year, said that Tunisia is even approached by several African countries (Mauritania, Algeria, Mali and others) for its expertise, particularly in the area of sanitation and waste management.