Tunisia announced tight restrictions on water usage, including rationing tap water, as the drought-hit country braces for another baking summer.
The North African country's dams are at critical lows following years of drought, exacerbated by pipeline leaks in a decrepit distribution network.
Residents of several areas of the capital have already complained of unannounced cuts to their mains supply at night since the start of the fasting month of Ramadan, when many stay up late. None of the country's major reservoirs is more than a third full, while some are at at less than 15 percent, threatening Tunisia's agricultural sector, which usually accounts for 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product.
The Tunisian Federation for Agriculture and Fisheries said thousands of hectares of farmland risked being left fallow due to the lack of rain.
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