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.

Live 📅 since 2024
Scale🏙️ City-wide
FundingJirama (state utility)

🎓 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.

Sources

↗ Jirama — Communiqués (operator archive)Weekly 'Prévisions de coupures' for Direction RIA archived continuously from July 2024 into August 2026 (e.g. 'du 10 au 16 juillet 2026').
↗ 2424.mg — La Jirama publie également un calendrier de délestage pour l'eau (12 June 2024)Daily water-rotation plan for nine named sites (Mandroseza, Ankatso, Alasora, Ambohidrapeto, Ampitatafika, Anosiala, Ankaraobato, Iavoloha, Analamahitsy); per-quartier overnight service windows; ~60,000 m³/day production gap per Jirama.
↗ Wikipedia — 2025 Malagasy protestsProtests from 25 Sept 2025 sparked by water and power cuts lasting up to 12 hours at a time in Antananarivo; Jirama offices attacked; government fell in October 2025.
📎 Cite this project

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.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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