Yemen's council of ministers approved on Tuesday the updated water strategy and the water investment program 2012-2015, in a move that aims to rationalize the use of the country's dwindling water resources.
The strategy included specific organizational and financial policies to straighten out the disorders a the water sector with the aim to protect the rights of the Yemeni water consumers and the authorities concerned wit the water issues.
Nonetheless, the main goal of the strategy is to improve and rationalize the people's use of the water resources amid calls to take action to prevent the continuous the dwindling of the country's water resources.
Recent reports by local and foreign agencies have warned the capital Sanaa will be the first city in the region to run out of water for a number of reasons including the absence of policies to rationalize the water use and to prevent the continuous random drilling of wells.
In its weekly meeting, the council also approved a drafted republican decree to establish and organize the Yemeni council for extractive industry transparency and ordered the legal affairs minister to finalize the legal procedures over the issue.
Furthermore, it took a number of decisions including those to remove the illegal fees imposed on the Yemeni expatriates and to amend the visual and audio media law.