Algeria Press Service - jeudi 8 juillet 2010 Agricultural irrigation, a programme for sewage water use Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Rachid Benaissa said Thursday that an ambitious programme for the generalisation of sewage water use in agricultural irrigation will be launched... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - mardi 29 juin 2010 Oued El Harrach cleaning-up project complete before 2014 end The project of cleaning up and redevelopment of Oued El Harrach will be completed before end of 2014 with the construction of an industrial wastewater treatment plant, Water Resources Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said Sunday... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - jeudi 17 juin 2010 Five-year programme ensures drinking water supply regardless climate changes The implementation of the five-year development programme for 2010-2014 will help ensure a steady supply of drinking water regardless climate changes, declared Thursday here Water Resources Minister Abdelmalek Sellal.... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - lundi 31 mai 2010 Oued Zhor dam project to be launched soon in Skikda Minister of Water Resources Abdelmalek Sellal announced Sunday the launch shortly of works for the dam Oued Zhor (150 km west of Skikda). With a storage capacity of 22 million m3, the dam project will be carried out within 37 months... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - lundi 17 mai 2010 300 national and foreign companies at 6th "Pollutec" show in Oran The sixth international show of water equipments, technologies and services, "Pollutec," kicked off Monday in Oran with the participation of 300 national and foreign companies and bodies operating in the water resources field... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - jeudi 6 mai 2010 Need for rational management of water in Sahara Water Resources Minister Abdelmalek Sellal on Wednesday insisted on the need for the rational exploitation of water in the Sahara regions. Speaking at a national seminar on "water in agriculture in the Sahara",... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - mercredi 5 mai 2010 Emirati operators interested in investing in Algeria's hydraulic sector Chairman of Abu Dhabi's Department of Planning and Economic Development (United Arab Emirates) Nasser Bin Ahmed Al-Suwaidi, expressed Tuesday in Algiers Emirati economic operators' wish to invest in the hydraulic sector in Algeria... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - lundi 15 février 2010 Algeria-Cuba: For increasing exchange in water resources Minister of Water Resources Abdelmalek Sellal and Cuba's Ambassador to Algiers, Eumelio Caballero, agreed Sunday here "on favouring and developing Algerian-Cuban relations by intensification of experts exchanges,... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - jeudi 11 février 2010 Algeria's experience in water desalination mentioned in Paris An expert from the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) in Paris, Fabian Dupuis, mentioned Algeria as an example to follow for seawater desalination to meet needs in domestic and industrial water... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - jeudi 11 février 2010 Abdelmalek Sellal for the rational exploitation of water resources Abdelmalek SellalADRAR (Algeria)- Water Resources Minister Abdelmalek Sellal on Wednesday in the province of Adrar (1540 km southwest Algiers) stressed on the need for the rational exploitation of water resources... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - mardi 12 janvier 2010 Supplying towns with water from dams, one of the Government's priorities for the years ahead Supplying towns with drinking water from surface water resources (dams) is one of the Government's priorities for the years ahead in an attempt to remedy water scarcity in some of the country's provinces,... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - mardi 5 janvier 2010 Target set on 1,120,000 hectares of irrigated land by 2013 A target of 1,120,000 hectares of irrigated land has been set for 2013 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Djamel Zareb from the National Institute of Soil, Irrigation and Drainage (INSID) announced on Tuesday in Ain Temouchent... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - dimanche 3 janvier 2010 Agriculture: Major State support to go to water conservation and gene pool Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Rachid Benaissa said Sunday that the major State's support for agriculture sector in 2010 will go to water conservation and gene pool... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - jeudi 31 décembre 2009 Water resources: Two planning instruments set up The leading plan of water resources development and the national plan on water examined on Wednesday by Council of Ministers envisage the setting up of two planning instruments to guarantee the sector long-term development... (full story)

Algérie Presse Service - dimanche 27 décembre 2009 Two Algerian firms land contracts for three dams Two national public firms have landed contracts for the construction of three dams in the provinces of Medea, M'sila and Laghouat, while a Chinese company won the deal to build a dam in Skikda,... (full story)

Algeria Presse Service - lundi 21 décembre 2009 Irrigation of Hennaya agricultural land with treated wastewater operational An operation relating to the irrigation of the agricultural area of Hennaya (Tlemcen) with treated wastewater was launched Sunday, in the presence of Minister of Water Resources... (full story)

El Khabar - dimanche 15 novembre 2009 Minister of Hydraulic Resources, Abdelmalek Sellal: “New restricting measures to boost the sector projects” New restricting measures have been taken to avoid making periodic re-evaluation of major water projects, Hydraulic Resources Minister, Abdelmalek Sellal, said yesterday... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - samedi 14 novembre 2009 Algeria's dams filled up to 63 percent in November The filling rate of the 60 dams in operation in Algeria has reached 63 percent in early November, representing a total water storage of 3.64 billion cubic metres, the Ministry of Water Resources announced on Saturday... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - dimanche 4 octobre 2009 Over $15 bln to finance hydraulic projects Hydraulics sector will benefit of 15 to 16 billion dollars to complete its projects and implement its policy aimed at definitively securing reserves in order to provide a good water quality for the population, Water Resources Minister Abdelmalek Sellal,... (full story)

Algeria Press Service - vendredi 2 octobre 2009 All means mobilized to ensure national water resources Water Resources Minister Abdelmalek Sellal declared Thursday in Tiaret (340km west of Algiers) that Algeria works, through many projects of hydraulic sector, to "mobilize all means to ensure national water resources... (full story)