Tunisia: first private-public partnership in water, with Suez

The Suez group announced on Wednesday that it had concluded the first-ever “public-private partnership in the water sector in Tunisia”, by joining forces with the state-owned Onas office to clean up wastewater in a southern region serving nearly a million inhabitants.

The French-based multinational has been entrusted with “the operation of the public sanitation service for the governorates of Sfax, Gabes, Medenine and Tataouine,”…