A look back at Tunisia's summer of shortages

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Cover image: An image of a water distribution shared on X by the Rafael Sereti account on August 31, 2026. © X/Rafael Sereti, FRANCE 24 Issued on: 24/09/2026 - 11:43Modified: 24/09/2026 - 11:45 From the show Repeated power and water outages, long queues for bottled water, and poultry farms destroyed by the heat: millions of Tunisians were affected by water and electricity shortages over the summer. Our Observers say this is the result of years of underinvestment. The water shortage eased in late August when authorities sent millions of bottles of water to stores, but many are concerned the same thing could happen next summer.