A report by the General Directorate of Water of the Ministry of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water, stated that the filling rate of three dams located in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region reached 100% of their total capacity.

The report stated that the water reserve of Oued Al-Makhazine Dam in Larache, the region’s largest dam, reached 672.9 million cubic meters, equivalent to 100% of its total capacity, and the filling rate of each of the Chefchaouen and Nakhla dams in the Tetouan region also reached 100 %, with a water reserve of 12.2 Million cubic meters and 4.21 million cubic meters respectively.

The filling rate for Charif Al Idrissi Dam in Tetouan region is close to 99.8%, with a water reserve of 121.47 million cubic meters, and up to 98.5 % for Ibn Battuta Dam in Tangier-Asilah, equivalent to 28.7 million cubic meters.

Samir Dam in Mdiq-Fnideq reached a filling rate of 88.4%, with a water reserve of 34.4 million cubic meters, followed by Mohammed Ben Abdelkrim Al-Khattabi Dam in Al Hoceima with 75.5% (8.9 million cubic meters), then Moulay El Hassan Ben El Mahdi Dam in the province of Fahs-Anjra by 74.2% (17.4 million cubic meters), and Tangier Med Dam with a filling rate of 65%, bringing the water reserve to 14.3 million cubic meters.

As for Dar Khrofa Dam in the province of Larache, it reached 50.9 %, (244.5 million cubic meters), then April 9th Dam in Tangier-Assilah labor with 24.1% (72.4 million cubic meters), and finally the Jmoua Dam in Al Hoceima region with 14.8 %, equivalent to 0.8 million meters. cubic.

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Morocco’s plans for 2021 include the construction of five new large dams with a total storage capacity of 525 million cubic meters, which will allow the country to improve its drinking water and irrigation capacity.

Abdelkader Amara, Minister of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water declared in Parliament that the construction of these dams, which will cost Morocco about 538 million USD, comes within the framework of the National Program for Drinking and Irrigation Water Supply 2020-2027.

The minister explained that three dams will be built in Azilal, Agadir and Figuig, while 2 others will be built in Beni Mellal, pointing out the enhancement of the Imfoot dam in Settat.

Once finished, the five new dams will help elevate the country’s storage capacity to 27 billion cubic meters instead of the current 19 billion cubic meters.

Over the past decade, Morocco has built 23 large dams with a storage capacity of 6.2 billion cubic meters, costing the country more than 3.1 billion USD.

Since ascending to the throne, King Mohammed VI has strengthened the policy led by late King Hassan II to provide the country with water infrastructure to meet the citizens’ needs. As of today, Morocco has 149 large and 133 small dams serving drinking and irrigation water.

To face issues arising from water scarcity, Morocco has put forward a plan to ensure adequate water supplies, improve water management and increase supply to rural areas by building dams and desalination plants, as well as exploring groundwater resources.

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Abdelkader Aamara, Minister of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and water, announced today Tuesday, November 10^th in Rabat, the launch of the operational steps of setting up the largest seawater desalination station in Africa which will be located in Casablanca.

In his response to a question in the house of councilors about the procedures taken to solve water shortage. Aamara replied that they have started the project’s operational steps. He added that the station capacity reaches 300 million cubic meters, which makes it the largest station in Africa with a budget of 10 billion MAD.

The minister stated that they have finished desalinating seawater in “Chtuka Ayt Baha” province. In addition, they have also upgraded the throughput of numerous seawater desalination stations in the southern regions of Morocco.

The minister also stressed that during the year 2020, in spite of the exceptional conditions of Covid-19, the government insisted on overcoming water shortage during drought. To serve this purpose, the government launched five major dams, finished building six other major dams and planned to set up five more major dams for next year. Meanwhile, fourteen other dams are under construction throughout the regions of Morocco.

On the other hand, the minister noted that the year 2019-2020 witnessed an extreme rainfall shortage. Average rainfall ranges between -5% in “Loucus” basin and – 67% in “Souss-Massa” basin and -50% in “Abu-raqraq-chaouia” basin. The total volume of water inputs reached 4.3 billion cubic meters which consists a deficit of 64%.

The minister clarified that the government holds a clear-cut conception to overcoming water shortage dilemma through a two-level plan. The first is the national program 2020-2027 launched by HM King Mohammed VI last January 2020. An integrated program with a total budget of 115.4 billion MAD. This project holds answers and procedures to different problematics related to water especially in rural areas and small hill dams.

The second plan is the strategic planning of the year 2050 according to law number 36.15 which consists of establishing a 30-year plans. The minister noted that the total budget of this project exceeds 380 billion MAD.

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