Morocco Secures €50 Million Loan for Northern Drinking Water Project

The French Development Agency is supporting the Moroccan government in its efforts to improve and secure access to quality drinking water for its citizens, particularly the populations of the provinces of Al Hoceima, Driouch, Nador and Taounate. To this end, the AFD had granted a global credit of 101 million euros. The new agreement of 50 million, signed on Wednesday, July 17, 2019 in Rabat, complements a previous one signed in December 2018.

For the AFD, this "project will contribute to reducing inequalities in access to public services while strengthening the resilience of the territory in the face of climate change". Other resources are planned to take into account the Bouhouda and Asfalou dams (Taounate province). This will make it possible to cope with the increased drying up of groundwater resources and the significant reduction in rainfall over the next few decades.

By 2030, this project will contribute to the supply of drinking water and sanitation, which will have a lasting impact on the health sector and the economic and social development of the area, says Mihoub Mezouaghi, Director of the AFD in Morocco.