Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated on Jan. 14, 2024, in Tunis on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of the 2011 revolution. (Credit: Fethi Belaid/AFP Archives)
Since the gradual drop in temperatures, Rached Khayati, a retiree and specialist in the cultural heritage of Nabeul, sixty kilometers from Tunis, is hoping for a "return to normal." "You still have to go to several stores in the morning to find water, but we make do… The other day, a truck delivering a store's water packs was stormed, I hope it will calm down," he says, sounding confident. The bottled water supply crisis, which affected the country in August, was aggravated by a series of factors, including high demand due to the heatwave and production disruptions caused by power outages in July. Read more 70 years later, Tunisian women's rights are put to the test Tunisians are the fourth biggest consumers of bottled water in the world, so the shortage was particularly visible: lines in front of stores and...
Since the gradual drop in temperatures, Rached Khayati, a retiree and specialist in the cultural heritage of Nabeul, sixty kilometers from Tunis, is hoping for a "return to normal." "You still have to go to several stores in the morning to find water, but we make do… The other day, a truck delivering a store's water packs was stormed, I hope it will calm down," he says, sounding confident. The bottled water supply crisis, which affected the country in August, was aggravated by a series of factors, including high demand due to the heatwave and production disruptions caused by power outages in July. Read more 70 years later, Tunisian women's rights are put to the test Tunisians are the fourth biggest consumers of bottled water in the world, so the shortage was particularly visible: lines in front of stores...
