Abdel Rahim Al-Hafizi, Director General of the Moroccan Office for Electricity and Drinking Water, President of the Moroccan Association for Drub and Disincular Water, and close to 100 officials from the water sector attended a symposium today, Wednesday, on the subject of “Managing Water Disability in light of Climate Changes.”
Participants discussed the potential methods to address this issue as well as the present water status in Morocco.
The head of the Water and Electricity Office noted that the symposium was organised after the Moroccan monarch acknowledged Morocco’s structural water stress problem and his call for a swift solution. He also emphasised the need for developing innovative, sustainable, and integrated solutions while organising all parties to address this deficit.
He stressed that the water situation in Morocco was severely affected by climate changes, and that the challenges of this situation require the participation of all officials to address it, and stressed that the management of this water deficit requires a better measure of ground and superficial water resources and encouraging innovative technologies in this field, especially seawater desalination and the development of re -development In addition to increasing water efficiency, using treated wastewater and connecting water basins can help to reduce water loss through the flow towards the sea.
The symposium issued recommendations to confront the status of water deficit mainly concerned with activating the Moroccan water plan, speeding up the completion of a drinking water program and watering water 2020-2027, developing treated wastewater re-water, preserving ground resources by ending illegal pumping and digging random wells, and speeding up the pace of the completion of resource mobility projects Moreover, water production.
Morocco talks about how to deal with the water shortage in light of climate change.
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