"The situation in Androy sometimes makes us wonder if we are being deliberately impoverished to benefit from funding every year." The president of the Refondation expressed this thought during the signing of an agreement for the installation of a seawater desalination unit in Ambovombe district. Following the Water and the Regimes Upon his return from Dubai in December 2025, Colonel Michaël Randrianirina reportedly brought back among other "voa-dalana" from this swift and secret trip, a meeting with the head of an Emirati company capable of transforming air into water. Eight months later, it is finally with a Chinese firm that the Refondation regime has just signed an agreement concerning a project to install a seawater desalination unit intended to provide drinking water to thousands of people in the Deep South. Whatever the tap, as long as there is water, the inhabitants of Androy will likely say, having seen many projects fall through. That of the Mandrare river where the population of Amboasary Sud and surrounding localities fill to the brim rinsed drums placed on carts pulled by exhausted zebus, which interest little the "dahalo" bandits plaguing the region. An outdated image set to disappear as the water flows. At least for the beneficiaries of this latest drinking water supply project in Androy, where people sometimes quench their thirst during droughts with cactus juice. A resilient succulent plant in an arid and hostile ecosystem that could become more fertile and productive if air and sea were indeed to transform into both drinking and irrigation water. A dual project that could benefit the Refondation regime even if the Antandroy have no need of such machinery to grind their corn.