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Water situation
Morocco will be

thirsty this summer Rising prices

And what if gasoline
prices had nothing to

do with it?

Energy: The largest
private Israeli invest-
ment in Morocco

Government officials
Road safety Legal proceedings
What the car crash epidemic soon possible to be
costs started?

Editorial Fire Extinguishers Meriem OUDGHIRI

TRANDED, out of order, failed... Morocco poorly manages its water to irrigate one million hectares. The aim was to ensure food security and
S water stress. Very large technical, financial, and organizational resources had been mobi-
policy. And the situation is getting worse now with the drought and intensify agriculture in order to overcome the constraint of erratic rainfall.

How is it possible that with intelligent and regionalized plans to save water, lized. The country had also understood that irregular rainfall had become a
the level of dams has dropped so dramatically? Shouldn't we have taken recurrent reality. And thus, it had to deal with it and integrate it into the future
precautions? Why are the projects so far behind schedule? The PJD govern- strategies.
ment is now being criticized for having sacrificed the 2009-2021 National But comfort has put all this to sleep. Tinkered solutions have become
Water Strategy, leading to serious failures in its implementation. The issue permanent. Global warming is a good thing, because it allows us to hide our
had been the subject of reports and debates pointing out to the drifts, but the short-sightedness and negligence. Today, in the face of this exceptional situa-
debate was eventually closed. tion, the watch committees are being reactivated, the work of supplying rural
In Morocco, water has always been a human and political issue, in the centers and hamlets is being accelerated, as well as the digging of boreholes
broadest sense. The middle of the 1960s was marked by a major turning to find additional resources. In emergency situations, we practice firefighting
point, particularly for agriculture with the policy of dams whose goal was to put out the "fires"... There will be many of them this summer.o