Jirama Load-Shedding Forecasts and Water Rotation Schedules
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Madagascar's state water-and-power utility Jirama publishes weekly 'prévisions de coupures' for the Antananarivo interconnected grid (Direction RIA) — dated, area-level forecasts of when the electricity will go out, archived on its website continuously from July 2024 through August 2026. In June 2024 the same operator added daily water-rotation plans ('tours d'eau') for nine areas of the capital, publishing which quartiers get water in which overnight window against a production gap it put at about 60,000 m³ a day. The schedules manage scarcity rather than cure it: outages stretching to 12 hours a day beyond any published plan helped ignite the September 2025 Gen Z protests, in which Jirama offices were attacked and the government fell — and the forecasts have kept appearing under the new administration.
🎓 Lesson
A published rationing plan is a data layer, and an honest one: it documents what the utility cannot deliver. In Antananarivo the gap between schedule and reality turned political — the protests that toppled the president began over cuts the calendar could no longer contain.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Jirama Load-Shedding Forecasts and Water Rotation Schedules” — Antananarivo, Madagascar. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/antananarivo-jirama-load-shedding/ (last verified 2026-08-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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