On Wednesday, July 3, 2024, MP Dhouha Selmi described the southern suburbs of Tunis as a disaster area, indicating that the region has been deliberately marginalized since the 1990s.
Speaking on IFM’s morning show, she emphasized that the environmental situation is continuously deteriorating. « We are facing an environmental crime, and there is no other term to describe this situation. The National Sanitation Utility (Onas) is responsible; its role is to clean up, but instead, it pollutes (…) there is a set of regulations that obligates industrialists, but they do not comply with it, » added the MP.
She specified that sea water pollution causes skin diseases and that correspondences sent to the relevant ministry have gone unanswered.
Sixteen swimming prohibition points have been announced in the Ben Arous Governorate:
- In front of the Radés thermal power plant
- One hundred meters south of Marouen beach in Radés
- In front of the Radés Civil Protection headquarters
- One hundred meters north of the mouth of Oued Meliane in Radés
- One hundred meters south of the mouth of Oued Meliane in Ezzahra
- At the mouth of Oued Maizat in Ezzahra
- At the mouth of Oued Boukhamsa in Ezzahra
- In front of Salsa Major Street in Hammam Lif
- In front of 7 November Street in Hammam Lif
- In front of Casino in Hammam Lif
- In front of Avenue Salambo in Hammam Lif
- In front of Habib Thameur Street in Hammam Lif
- In front of Aziza Othmana Street in Hammam Lif
- At the old mouth of Châabia in Hammam Lif
- At the mouth of Oued Ayachia in Hammam Lif
- In front of the Caraïbe Hotel in Borj Cedria
Let’s remember these points as highlighted for swimming prohibitions due to severe environmental concerns.
Source: Business News
