Morocco is facing “structural” water stress, President of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE), Ahmed Réda Chami, said, Wednesday in Rabat.
The kingdom has been going through a very long drought period in which the country will experience less and less rainfall, Réda Chami underlined during a meeting organized at the initiative of the Club for Accredited Journalists in Morocco (CJAM), adding that “this structural problem requires a structural response”.
Based on the results of a study published in “Nature” journal, he noted that Australian researchers have affirmed that Morocco is among five countries in the world which will be affected by acute rainfall shortage over the next fifty years.
Moroccans are perhaps not yet aware that water will become a rare commodity, Chami warned, calling for a change in consumption habits of this vital resource.
The dam policy was a visionary decision of the late HM King Hassan II, he recalled, noting that this policy is still on course, particularly with the construction of small hill dams, while other solutions are also being implemented, notably seawater desalination.
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