In Tunisia's renowned seaside town of Hammamet, bulldozers are busy spreading sand - part of a controversial beach nourishment operation to combat erosion caused by rising sea levels.
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00:30This is the biggest problem, because the postcard of Hamamet, since our childhood, we know
00:52that Hamamet is the gulf, it is this beautiful view.
00:55I was not against the idea of launching the Oman Park, but there was a transparency,
01:00because the ministry and the administration said that they don't like to spend money
01:04so that in the summer they can enjoy the waterfall.
01:07But this is a preventive process and a process to protect the waterfall,
01:12it is a process that does not protect the waterfall 100%,
01:14if it does not have other measures to stabilize the waterfall.
01:19It concerns the municipality of Hamamet or the centers ...
01:34I have not yet ... I have not yet been ...
01:39It is a provisional solution, I would say.
01:42The 750 trucks, the equivalent of 15,000 cubic meters of sand,
01:51are being put on the beach.
01:54We don't know how the sea will react.
01:57The sea can swallow them, but provisionally it can be a solution.
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