"It would be at the discretion of various district directors," said Eyleen Schmidt, a spokeswoman for the immigration service, "but based on the results of this particular initiative, it would be logical that other district directors would lean toward doing the same thing in their district".
Although there is a general lack of water in all the sectors of the city of Algiers, the various districts of the capital are not subjected in the same way to the management of the shortage.
The wilaya of Skikda has four large dams in service with initial total capacity of 317 million m3 for water supply of the various districts, irrigation, and industry.
Within the context of multi-criteria decision-making, TOPSIS (Technique of Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) allows the direct comparison of measures of different units, and it is used to evaluate the relative scores of the various districts' benchmark.
Demonstrations turned violent in the port city of Aden, where security forces clashed with thousands of protesters in various districts of the restive city, The Associated Press reported.
