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Editorial Crafting a new future Meriem OUDGHIRI

66,5 kilometers of trenches, soil excavation, and gigantic pipes. The will to make it. This is the logic of modern thought. This logic also shows that
water transfer mega-project is once again the hallmark of Mo- when the public authorities put themselves at the service of the same sector, the
roccan engineering. Still, this titanic project of interconnection strike force is thereby reinforced. Morocco has experienced examples of major
between river basins had to be carried out many years ago, espe- projects and mobilization. Such is the case of the Tanger Med harbor, the giant
cially since it was part of the 2009 water strategy, validated by the Sovereign. project on the Mediterranean sea, in the Tangier region, that made many people
But it took the huge scarcity of water that the country is currently experiencing say that Morocco is not, is no longer the messy country that had trouble organi-
to get started, because the losses incurred so far were huge. For years, water zing its projects, small or big. Of course, there are programs or administrations
was pumped euphorically due to its availability, with the results we know. Over that are dragging their feet. They are no longer the benchmark. Today (and
the past five years, more than 6.5 billion cubic meters of water have been lost to even tomorrow), the big challenge will be to win the “post-drought” challenge
the sea. From last September till today, 300 million cubic meters have suffered and to extend all this mobilization to all the territories and other sectors. This is
the same fate. It was therefore urgent to stop the bleeding. This whole situation another way to move definitively from orphan strategies to global and effective
clearly shows that History, present and future, belongs to people who have the policies. In a word, the goal is to craft a new future. o