Morocco is going through an acute water stress crisis. The Kingdom ranks 23rd among the countries most threatened by water shortages, according to the latest report from the World Resources Institute (WRI).
The city of Agadir has just welcomed British tourists, the first since the easing of access conditions in the country. The travelers arrived in the Kingdom via a Ryanair flight.
Swallowed by the earthquake that occurred on February 29, 1960, the portal of the Kasbah of Agadir Oufella has been unearthed. This feat was achieved on Wednesday, October 14, thanks to excavations carried out by a team of Moroccan and Spanish experts.
The Agadir cable car project was approved on October 7 by the city council. However, this project had been rejected 4 years ago due to the high seismic risk of its location.
The logo of the city of Agadir unveiled a few days ago is not to the taste of the Moroccan expatriates in Europe. They have written a letter to the president of the municipal council to express their disapproval.
New easing measures have been put in place by the public authorities at the level of the Prefecture of Agadir-Ida Outanane. They have decided to reopen the beaches throughout the region.
A teacher was summoned, last Friday, by the administrative court of Agadir to return to the National School of Applied Sciences the exam and end-of-internship grades of his students, under threat of a fine of 20,000 dirhams for each hour of delay.
The new measures put in place by the Moroccan authorities have allowed Agadir to welcome its first foreign tourists. This situation comes after several months of freezing tourism activity due to the coronavirus.
Faced with lack of rain, the scarcity of water resources exacerbated by the overexploitation of groundwater, farmers and individuals in southern Morocco find themselves in a total impasse. Faced with the extremely low level of dams in this region, an SOS is being launched.
The health crisis has not spared any sector of activity in Morocco. In the freight transport sector, professionals report a sharp drop in their activity and remain very pessimistic about a rapid recovery in the sector.
The rainfall deficit and the drop in the filling rate of dams in the Souss-Massa region have required drastic measures to save water. Thus, water cuts are planned on a punctual basis from this Saturday, October 3.
A Marshall emergency plan has been unveiled by tourism professionals in Agadir-Souss-Massa to revive the sector in the Kingdom. The intensification of domestic flights, the creation of small hotel management groups, among others, are part of it.