The National Agency for Water Resources  (ANRH) is an administrative public institution of scientific and technical vocation endowed with the moral personality and the financial autonomy. It was created by the decree n° 81-167 of the 25th July 1981, it is placed under the Ministry of Hydraulics supervision, and its head office is based in Algiers.

MISSIONS:
The main mission of the agency is to put into application the inventory programmes of the water resources and the irrigable soils of the country, in accordance with the objectives of the development national plan and within the conditions fixed by the supervision authority.

    In the ground waters field, the agency is assigned:     

1. To do the inventory of the ground water resources of the country; 

2. To conceive, to install and to manage the controlling networks of the ground waters;

3. To draw up the hydrogeological maps and those of the ground resources; 

4. To keep the balance of the ground water resources and their use in continuity; 

5. To look after the ground water resources preservation in terms of quality and quantity;

    In the surface waters field, the agency is assigned:

1. To conceive, to install and to manage the national hydroclimatological network, intended for the elaboration of the national hydrical balance;

2. To entertain, to make out, to archive and to distribute the hydroclimatological data;

3. To carry out the general methodological studies on the hydroclimatological regimes for the inventory of the surface water resources;

4. To study the hydrological phenomenon on the experimental basins such as: the erosion, the water streaming, the water seepage and the evapotranspiration;

5. To place and to manage the networks of preventive floods.

    In the irrigation and drainage field, the agency is assigned:

1. To achieve an inventory of soil resources, intended for being evaluated by irrigation and drainage;

2. To determine and to draw up maps of the hydro-dynamic characteristics of irrigable soils, in collaboration with the National Institute of Cartography (INC);

3. To study the needs for water of cultures as well as areas of irrigation and drainage, intended for the elaboration of country planning, irrigation and drainage projects; 

4. To study the evolution of the saltiness of soils and surface waters in the irrigated zones and to provide with the relative elements for their protection and safeguard.

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