The National Water Plan includes the installation of seawater desalination plants in several cities, including Casablanca, where 300 million cubic meters of water will be produced per year starting in 2027.
Currently in Morocco, the dam filling level is reassuring with diversified rainfall, after long years of drought.
In a few years, a large part of the Moroccan coastline will be exposed to flooding and severe erosion. This is what the results of a study by a group of experts commissioned by the World Bank reveal.
Morocco will welcome five new dams in 2021, with a capacity of 525 million m³ for an estimated total cost of 4.8 billion. These projects are part of the national water plan (PNE 2020-2050), launched in January and which is an extension of the priority water program approved by King Mohammed VI.
The fragility of the water balance in southeastern Morocco, a region already in a state of water stress, was the subject of a study published in the international journal "Water".
A $100 million fund dedicated to Moroccan small businesses has been created by the United States. The initiative comes from the International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) in collaboration with SEAF Global.
The Observatory for the Protection of the Environment and Historic Monuments of Tangier and several civil society associations in the city have launched a petition demanding the creation of a third wastewater treatment plant in Tangier . The petition is addressed to the president of the urban commune of the city of the strait.
Civil aviation, innovation, water resource development, finance and investment... These are the strengths of the agreements Morocco has signed with the United States and with Israel. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad, Nasser Bourita talks about the importance of these agreements that strengthen the Kingdom’s relations with the two parties.
Morocco could benefit from Israeli expertise in water management to better ensure the availability of the blue gold in all its regions.
The development program for the southern provinces of the Kingdom is progressing well. In the assessment presented by the government, several projects are under construction, others will be launched in 2021.
"Kartika" traffickers are obtaining large agricultural lands, installing unauthorized wells and overexploiting the rivers and springs of the Kingdom without authorization. Faced with the scale of the situation, NGOs in northern Morocco are sounding the alarm.
Water stress is real in Agadir, the leading exporting region for citrus fruits and early produce. Even though the Moroccan economy is largely dependent on the development of the agricultural sector, the current situation requires the deprivation of irrigation of the region’s farms by the dams, in order to meet the demand for drinking water of the population.