Algeria accuses Morocco of contaminating its water

From Ljubljana (Slovenia), Taha Derbal, Algerian Minister of Hydraulics, accuses Morocco of destroying cross-border surface waters.

“The western and southwestern regions of Algeria are suffering negative effects resulting from the practices of the neighboring state, Morocco, obstructing and destroying transboundary surface waters,” he said in a speech delivered during the work of the 10th Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, according to the official agency APS. According to him, the contamination of water entering Algeria from Morocco has notably deteriorated the quality of water from the Hammam Boughrara dam in the wilaya of Tlemcen, because of the contamination of water coming from Moroccan territories.