Tunisias Water Crisis Fuels Frustration

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tunisia is known across the Middle East and North Africa as “Tunis al Khadraa” — Arabic for “Tunisia the green.” But most Tunisians likely fear these credentials are in jeopardy. In 2022, 85% of Tunisians were dissatisfied with efforts to preserve the environment in their country — tying them with Lebanese adults as the most dissatisfied in the world. Dissatisfaction with the country’s efforts to safeguard the environment has climbed dramatically since 2010 (28%), the same year the country’s “Jasmine Revolution” kick-started the uprisings that would spread across the Arab world the next year. At the heart…