WD News: The grant, extended through the bank’s Technical Assistance Fund for Middle-Income Countries, will support technical assistance to the Government of Morocco for the design of dams, river development, and inter-basin interconnection studies.
The project is expected to benefit the entire Moroccan population. The beneficiary institution is the Directorate of Hydraulic Development of the Ministry of Equipment and Water.
The first component of this grant entails the provision of technical assistance to the Directorate of Hydraulic Development in designing studies of water resources, such as dams and rivers, and interconnection between hydraulic basins. The second component involves ensuring the follow-up and coordination of this technical assistance implementation.
Morocco is experiencing recurrent periods of acute drought with increasing water stress and reserves under severe pressure. The filling rate of dams was less than 27% in August 2022, compared to more than 42% at the same time the previous year.
This program is expected to spur investments in the water sector over the 2020-2027 period to boost potable water supply, especially in the hydraulic basins that were affected by drought in 2015-2018.
Source & image courtesy: AfDB
