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Volunteers from Algeria and Tunisia seek to revive water heritage

- Maha Karim

Monday, 06 September 2010 08:54

A group of young volunteers from Algeria, Tunisia, Hungary, Romania and Switzerland will take part in a youth campus organised in the framework of the water heritage project REMEE in the Algerian town of Cherchell, seeking to integrate its rich heritage related to water uses in a broader programme for the development of tourism.

A press release said that during the campus, to take place from 18 September to 2 October 2010, the young volunteers would design interpretative signs, a brochure, a plan for thermal baths tours and a toolkit for schools. Their work will be then presented to the public on the last day of the campus.

REMEE coordinates various activities to enhance practices related to the protection of water heritage: a team of volunteers last year allowed the clearance of remains of a Roman villa on a site in Cherchell; a publication on the intangible heritage of water is being produced and a guide of water heritage through the ages will be published in 2011. All of these actions aim at the re-appropriation of the local water by the population and at raising awareness of issues necessary to the preservation of this increasingly scarce resource.

Funded by the EU under the EuroMed Heritage IV programme with a budget of €850,667 over a period of two and a half years, REMEE, which is implemented in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, aims to promote the preservation of vernacular heritage linked to water management in the Euro-Mediterranean region and raise public awareness, particularly among the youth, of the value of this heritage and the need to protect it. It also seeks to promote water management techniques linked to this heritage and promote, together with local populations, local development projects based on the principle of valorising this heritage.

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