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![]() The Tunisian Federation for Agriculture and Fisheries said thousands of hectares of farmland risked being left fallow due to the lack of rain. A poor domestic harvest would compound Tunisia’s problems procuring sufficient flour in the face of skyrocketing international wheat prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine early last year. Tunisia recorded a drop in its dam capacity to approximately one billion cubic metres, or 30 percent of the maximum, senior agriculture ministry official Hamadi Habib said.įarmers’ unions have voiced fears for the coming season, particularly as regards cereals. The North African country’s dams are at critical lows following years of drought, exacerbated by pipeline leaks in a decrepit distribution network. The new decision threatens to fuel social tension in a country whose people suffer from poor public services, high inflation and a weak economy. “Years of drought and low water flow into reservoirs has impacted the country’s water stocks, which have reached an unprecedented situation,” the ministry said. Residents of several areas of the capital have already complained of unannounced cuts to their mains supply at night since the start of the fasting month of Ramadan, when many stay up late. He said fines and even prison sentences were being considered if the rules were broken. Mosbah Helali, its head, said the drought in the country, brought on by the scarcity of rain across four consecutive years and which SONDE attributed to climate change, was unprecedented, and called on Tunisians to understand the decision. SONEDE said on Friday that the water will be cut off daily from 9pm until 4am, with immediate effect. The drought-hit country announced other tight restrictions on water usage – as it braces for another baking summer – including a ban on the use of potable water for irrigating farmland or green spaces, or for cleaning public areas or cars. ![]() The hash rate will fall if miners drop off the network, making it easier for the remaining miners to produce new coin.īut a drop in hash rate isn't necessarily good for the price of bitcoin.īitcoin fell below $US43,000 on Thursday, testing multi-month lows after investor appetite for riskier assets fell, in response to the US Federal Reserve leaning toward more aggressive policy action.Tunisia will cut off water supplies to citizens for seven hours a night in response to the country’s worst drought on record, state water distribution company SONEDE has said. More miners using the network means a greater amount of computer power is needed to mine new bitcoin. ![]() On Thursday, hash rate among the groups was down around 14 per cent from its level two days earlier, according to data from mining firm BTC.com.ĪntPool and F2Pool did not respond for comment. ![]() Groups of miners in different parts of the world, like AntPool and F2Pool, team up to produce bitcoin. Protests which began over increases to fuel prices have evolved into broader anti-government riots, with a police officer reportedly beheaded and protesters "liquidated" by security forces.Įarlier this week the country was hit with what monitoring site Netblocks called "a nation-scale internet blackout" which prevented Kazakhstan-based miners from accessing the bitcoin network. Kazakhstan is experiencing its worst street protests in three decades.
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