Moroccan Government Pledges Action on Bouregreg River Pollution Crisis

This environmental disaster is mainly linked to the leachate coming from the Oum Azza landfill, which flows into the river and the discharge of wastewater from the cities of Salé and Ain Aouda, said the Minister of the Environment, Aziz Rabbah, responding to a question asked by the deputy Omar Balafrej on the subject. This pollution is a real problem for the populations of several neighborhoods in the cities of Rabat and Salé, forced to endure these bad smells full-time.

Following the investigations carried out by a technical commission, several recommendations have been made for the taking of emergency measures, reports Assabah, specifying that among other measures, there is the establishment of several sanitation and infrastructure development projects, mainly in the