Merad accuses Morocco of toxic discharges into Oued Mouillah
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on TSA
Algerian Interior Minister Brahim Merad, visiting Tlemcen, denounces a hostile act by Morocco and accuses discharges from the Oujda region of polluting Oued Mouillah and the Hammam Boughrara dam. He says, according to TSA, that analyses found heavy metals and pharmaceutical products at dozens of times above authorised thresholds.
Algerian Interior Minister Brahim Merad accuses Morocco of toxic discharges into Oued Mouillah, which rises in Morocco. During a visit on Tuesday to Tlemcen province, with four other government members, he described these discharges as a 'hostile act'. According to him, the watercourse carries waste from the Oujda region and pollutes the waters of the Hammam Boughrara dam as well as the farmland in the far west of the country.
Brahim Merad says sample analyses revealed the presence of pharmaceutical products and heavy metals, some of which exceed authorised thresholds by dozens of times. He accuses Morocco of sending its industrial discharges without 'prior treatment', in addition to household wastewater, and judges the pollution 'premeditated'. He also cites tonnes of dead fish in the Hammam Boughrara dam.
