Water cuts trigger unrest in Western Algeria

The city of Tiaret in western Algeria has been rocked by violent clashes as citizens take to the streets torching tires and protesting water cuts.

Videos shared on social media showed Tiaret citizens blocking roads and denouncing 20 days of water outage, after a dam that supplies the city went empty.

Algeria’s media, mostly mouthpieces of the military regime, turned a blind eye to the incidents and the water crisis that also engulfed large western cities such as Oran.

In the second largest city, water rationing is now the norm with total cuts that last for days.

Instead of acting on the water problems, the Algerian regime indulges in exaggeration and fake news. The president himself told the UN General assembly in 2023 that the country will have a desalination capacity of 1.3 billion cubic meters this year! That means the whole Mediterranean Sea will dry up in a year.