Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas of Africa

Using MDG 7.C to benchmark progress towards achieving SDG 6

2000

2005

2010

2015

Indicator

Goal

Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services (%)

Drinking water

Proportion of population practising open defecation (%)

Sanitation and hygiene

6.4

4.2

2.3

0.8

Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services (%)

21.2

20.5

19.9

19.1

Proportion of population with basic handwashing facilities on premises (%)

83.1

83.5

Proportion of safely treated domestic wastewater flows (%)

17.7 (2018)

Wastewater treatment

Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality (%)

Proportion of groundwater bodies with good ambient water quality (%)

Water-use efficiency (US$/m 3 )

Water-use efficiency

14.1

Water stress

Freshwater withdrawals as a proportion of available freshwater resources (%)

96

48.0 (2017)

Degree of integrated water resources management (IWRM) implementation (%)

Water resources management

Population growth Thousands Algeria

Source: United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), 2019.

Population growth (thousands)

Institutional and legal framework

16 608 22 432 28 758 33 150 39 728 47 388

Response

Basic elements

Institutional framework

• Ministry of Water Resources • Hydrographic Basin Agencies (ABH)

Presence of an enabling institutional framework for sustainable water, wastewater and sanitation development and services

• National Agency for Water Resources (ANRH) • National Office for Irrigation and Drainage • National Office for Sanitation • National Dam and Inter-Basin Transfer Agency • Ministry of Land-use Planning and the Environment (MATE) • National Waste Agency (NDA) • National Conservatory of Environmental Training (CNFE) • Directorates of the 48 wilayas • Ministry of the Interior and Local Governments (MICL), with financial support for municipalities

projections

1975 Source: UN-Desa 2019.

1985 1995 2005 2015 2025

Wastewater management There is adearthof recent data regardingwastewater management. Available data show that 820 million m 3 /year of municipal wastewater was produced in 2012 and that 324 million m 3 /year was treated in the same year (FAO 2018). In 2012, there were 138 treatment plants, a significant increase from 44 in 2001, which operated with a capacity of 270 million m 3 /year of treated wastewater (FAO 2018).

• Water Utilities Regulatory Authority

Presence of a functional water regulator

• No public-private partnership unit • Regulatory Authority for Public Procurement and Services and the Ministry of Finance • Presidential Decree No. 15-247 of 2 Dhou Zl Hidja 1436 of 2015 covering public procurement regulations and delegation of public services. Public-private partnerships in the water sector to followWater Law No. 05-12 of 2005 • Desalination plant in Djerba; contracts for the management of drinking water in Algiers, Oran and Constantine. • The National Water Sector Development Programme 2006–2025 adopted in 2007 and integrated into the National Land-use Planning Scheme (SNAT) is the main water policy • Water Law No. 05-12 of 2005 • Law No. 03-10 of 19/07/2003 on the protection of the environment and sustainable development

Environment for private sector participation

Water and sanitation provision

Algeria

Access to at least basic services

Percentage of population

Progress towards MDG target

Met target

Limited or no progress Inadequate data

Legal, policy and strategy frameworks

1990 2015

Moderate progress Good progress

Current enabling policies

Drinking water

Limited or no progress

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 %

0

National Rural Urban National Rural Urban

Current enabling laws

Sanitation

Good progress

Source: FAO 2016.

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 %

Source: WHO and UNICEF 2015.

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