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Morocco announced the launch of construction in Casablanca on the largest seawater desalination plant in Africa.<\/p>\n

Minister of Transport and Logistics Abdelkader Amara on Tuesday said that the project, which has a budget of MAD 10 billion ($1 billion), will function with a capacity of over 300 million cubic meters.<\/p>\n

Amara made the announcement in response to a Parliamentary question about the measures Morocco has taken to address water scarcity.<\/p>\n

The seawater desalination project comes in the context of significant deficits of Morocco\u2019s water reservoirs. In July the national average dam filling rate was 45%, down from an already-low 54% in September 2019.<\/p>\n

In addition to building the station in Casablanca, Amara said that his ministry completed in 2020 the construction of the water desalination station in Chtouka Ait Baha in the Souss-Massa region, and strengthened the flow of a number of seawater desalination plants in Morocco\u2019s southern provinces.<\/p>\n

The minister also announced the completion of works to connect the Tangier water system to the Khrofa dam, that of Agadir to the Aoulouz and Moukhtar Soussi dams, that of Targuist to the Al Hoceima dam, in addition to the hydraulic connection between the north and south of Casablanca.<\/p>\n

The set of projects, said the official, adds to Morocco\u2019s launch of five dams and completed construction of six dams in 2020 and the programming of five additional dams in 2021. Meanwhile, 14 other dams are currently under construction in various regions across the country.<\/p>\n

In 2015 the World Resources Institute\u00a0ranked Morocco among 33 countries to face extremely high water stress by 2040.<\/p>\n

In addition, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u00a0 projected a continued warming trend in Morocco, showing an increase of 0.5 degrees Celsius in the country since 1970.<\/p>\n

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