Morocco’s National Office for Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) and Israel’s national water company Mekorot signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Thursday.
The signing, which took place during the Global Investment Forum 2022, will lay the groundwork for the two institutions’ future collaboration in the areas of drinking water and liquid sanitation.
Morocco stands to gain significantly from Israel’s advances in water technology. The country is experiencing local water shortages, and many of its rural areas have inadequate water sanitation.
“We have over 32,000 villages in Morocco that do not have access to safe sanitation, and over 14 million Moroccans still [pour] their wastewater directly into rivers,” said Salma Bougarrani, co-founder and CEO of Green Watech, a Moroccan organization dedicated to developing and promoting accessible water sanitation solutions across the country.
“There is a huge opportunity to work on rural sanitation and decentralized sanitation, but also to find low-tech solutions to democratize this type of solution in Morocco’s rural areas,” she said.
The signing on Thursday follows an agreement on a similar MOU agreement in December 2020 between the Kingdom of Morocco, represented by the Ministry of Equipment and Water, and the State of Israel, represented by the Ministry of Water Resources.
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