Several car wash facilities in Morocco have been forced to close as a result of new guidelines aimed at rationalizing water use in the country.
The owners have started to look for alternative ways to resume activity, as they’re hoping for authorities to respond to the proposals they made.
The Association of Owners of Car Wash Shops in the Marrakech-Safi region demanded, in a letter to the governor, to set and impose a reasonable amount of water on all shops, considering that the shutdown has very serious consequences for professionals.
“These stores consume only 5 to 7 liters of water per car, due to their reliance on the raw material that consists of special soap imported from abroad, which facilitates washing and reduces water consumption by 70 percent,” the association added.
The matter has caused many social and environmental criticism, due to the failure to allocate financial compensation to users as a result of the closure, and the omission of agricultural estates that consume huge amounts of water.
The Ministry of Interior instructed a patrol to the governors and workers to prevent the use of surface drinking water or groundwater in the process of irrigating green spaces and golf courses.
The decision included prohibiting the washing of streets and public places with drinking water, and preventing the use of this water for washing machinery.
“Closing car wash shops is not a solution, but rather a patchwork that harms the weakest link in the system,” stressed the President of the Moroccan University for Consumer Protection, Bouazza Al-Kharti.
“The depth of this decision harms the consumer and the preservation of water,” he added.
The president of MUCP called for the necessity of overcoming this approach, and granting professionals loans, in order to change and develop equipment, noting that “if citizens do not find car wash shops, they will take out their hoses in order to accomplish the matter, and this is a great waste,” as he put it.
“The water economy requires a clear national policy and the monitoring of the institutions that consume water in abundance, and the water council was proposed instead of patching,” he expressed to Hespress AR in a statement.
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