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Morocco needs a comprehensive action plan

Telecoms: The missed Air transport: Hard recovery!
opportunity for fiber optics

Dams: The situation is manageable Morocco-France: “Return to
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Editorial Moral challenge Meriem OUDGHIRI

M OROCCO has understood this fact a bit late, but better late than cing a situation of chronic and dangerous water stress. Admittedly, the last
never: irregular rainfall has become a recurring fact and the country rains give new hope and have made it possible to significantly improve the
will have to deal with it and integrate it into future strategies. After filling rate of the dams, but one must (once again) learn lessons, raise awa-
the oil war, the conflict of the twenty-first century will certainly be that of reness, and communicate time and again about the real price water and its
water, analysts predicted a long time ago. In Morocco, it has always been cost price. It is a radical change that must take place in the perception and
a question of men and politics, in its broadest sense. The mid-1960s were behavior regarding this resource. One will not succeed without a collective
marked by a major turning point with the policy consisting in the construc- and general responsibility in the management and preservation of water, by
tion of dams. Very large technical, financial, and organizational resources rationalizing the use of this resource, and by avoiding waste and pollution.
had been mobilized, but what happened along the way? Makeshift solu- Should water taps be closed so that people will finally measure the precious
tions have become permanent. Similarly, global warming has been used value of this asset? The country has shown that it can mobilize for different
all the time to hide negligence and carelessness, but it can’t work that way causes. The water deserves it even more. It is a moral challenge for all of
anymore. Today, we must not be afraid of words: the country is experien- us. For the whole country. o