Protection of environment, water resource and dams requires the use of water purification plants, whose number will be doubled to reach 200 facilities in 2015, the director general of the National Purification Office, Karim Hasni, said Thursday.
"The office employs 10,000 workers for the running of 102 operational water purification plants, while forty other plants are under construction and will be put into operation in 2015," he told reporters.
Provincial Water Departments is to carry out similar projects, bringing the total number of plants to 200, to be commissioned in 2015, or during the first quarter of 2016 at the latest."
According to him, the National Purification Office runs 350 pumping stations as well as 39,000 km of purification system with the aim of recovering a total of 44,000 km by extending its activity to new provinces.
Concerning reuse of treated water, the official stressed "the importance" of treatment facilities in agricultural provinces.