A working session was held this morning, Tuesday February 27, 2024, at the headquarters of the Governorate of Bizerte, during which the results of the technical study on the effects of climate change on the lakes of Bizerte and of Ichkeul, presented by the Steering Committee of the Lakes Sanitation Project, and the head of the Management by Objectives Unit, in charge of the implementation of the project.
Proposals for economic and environmental activities and development, social and community programs to be implemented were presented during the session, in addition to the procedural recommendations proposed by the project monitoring design office.
It should be noted that the integrated depollution program in the Great Lake of Bizerte area is part of the Horizon 2020 initiative, launched in 2005 on the occasion of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Barcelona Protocol.
This is a project aimed at improving environmental infrastructure, improving quality of life, sustainably managing natural resources, protecting the fragile ecosystem of Lake Bizerte and its surroundings and ensuring the sustainable development of the region.
The program includes two components: the first linked to investment in environmental infrastructure, which includes industrial depollution projects in public establishments located on the banks of the lake, including the steel company, the Tunisian Society of Refining Industries and the Société des cementeries de Bizerte, expand and prepare the sanitation network in the Lake Bizerte area, and rehabilitate the sanitation stations of Bizerte, Mateur and Menzel Bourguiba, close the industrial landfill of Menzel Bourguiba, recover its site, prepare the banks of the lake, create a cornice in the Menzel Abderrahmane area and expand its fishing port.
The second component concerns support for institutions interested in monitoring and monitoring the lake environment, sources of pollution in the region and activities that contribute to sustaining the results of the project.
