Four major dams with a total storage capacity of 1.42 million cubic meters will be built by 2027 in Morocco’s Northern Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region. Under this landmark project, 41 hill reservoirs will be built in the country’s northern region where storage capacity will be improved by 1.6 million m3 during the seven coming years to reach 6.9 million cubic meters. With its one billion m3 capacity, this project aims to supply drinking water and serve for irrigation in the northern and eastern regions. These dam projects are part of the 2020-2027 national water plan, sealed lately at a ceremony chaired in Rabat by King Mohammed VI. The plan aims at ensuring sufficient water supply in the Kingdom over the next seven years, and diversifying drinking and irrigation water supply notably through dam building, in a bid to bring up Morocco’s water storage capacity to 27.3 billion m3.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 06, 2020 12:22 UTC