A recent investigation by the Spanish fact-checking website Maldita refuted claims that Spain had agreed to give Morocco €36 billion (383 billion MAD) to fund its National Water Plan or build dams, while demolishing them in Spain.
The report clarified that the €36 billion mentioned in the circulating video is the estimated budget of Morocco’s National Water Plan for 2050, which includes various projects, and funding will come from the Moroccan government and the World Bank.
Maldita stressed that the claims are baseless and rely on the December 2025 High-Level Meeting between Spain and Morocco, in which both countries declared they would seek to use Spain’s financial instruments to support projects implemented by Morocco, especially structural water infrastructure.
“No specific figures or projects were mentioned,” it emphasized.
Citing Morocco’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, Maldita highlighted that funding for the program is already secured, inclduing 60% from the Moroccan state budget, 39% from involved stakeholders, and 1% from public-private partnerships. The World Bank will contribute $350 million.
The Spanish fact-checking website also refuted claims that Spain had destroyed agricultural dams, noting that the claim is misleading.
It explained that removed structures were mainly obsolete walls or small dams obstructing rivers, often unused or unlicensed, quoting the College of Civil Engineers which said, “only a few larger structures have been demolished due to non-functionality and potential flood risks.”
It added that the tallest demolished structure, Robledo de Chavela, at 22.7 meters, had not supplied water since 1990 and had several malfunctions.
The source explained that if Spain had removed significant agricultural dams, its water storage capacity would have decreased, but it actually increased by nearly 3,000 hm3 between January 2005 and November 2025, according to the Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition’s hydrological bulletin.
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