Severe Water Shortage Hits Agadir Region as Dam Levels Plummet

This concerns the entire geographical area including the capital of Souss, as well as neighboring towns and large villages like Inezgan, which are already experiencing temporary drinking water cuts, reports Al Akhbar.

This situation is caused by the state of the various dams supplying the region, the newspaper adds, noting that they are currently recording a fill rate of 14.41% compared to 32.93% during the same period last year. In other words, the water reserves of these dams have decreased by more than half in one year, a direct consequence of the lack of rainfall in recent months.

Faced with the situation, specialists have questioned the management of successive governments, which have not respected the framework agreement on the preservation and development of water resources, signed in 2007.

The latter provided, in addition to the construction of other dams and the development of lakes to retain water in valleys, for the implementation of a transition mechanism towards more reasoned irrigation in the largest agricultural farms.