Page 3 - Weekly highlights 6566

III

Weekly highlights

In the pipes of the water highway

(Ph. Bziouat)

M OROCCO’S largest water lize 850 million cubic meters of water have to extend to Oum Rbiaa. The help safeguard the plain of Berre-
highway project will soon
from the rainy Northern part of the purpose of this tranche is “to recover chid (Casablanca region), Doukkala
country to the semi-arid South”, spe- the volumes of water from the Sebou (Azemmour-El Jadida) and indirectly
be operational. The pilot
phase of this megaproject cifies a document from the Regional basin that used to be lost at sea by El Haouz-Tensift (Marrakech region).
will soon come to an end. It should Office for Agricultural Development placing the river basins of Sebou, The first tranche of the interconnec-
connect Wadi Sebou (Sidi Yahia: of the Gharb region (Ormvag), and Bouregreg, and Oum Rbiaa or even tion extends over 66 kilometers. The
Gharb Region) to the Sidi Moham- more specifically from its develop- Tensift in a common pool”, which water supply line has a total length
med Ben Abdellah dam, not far from ment department (delegated contrac- will allow, in the long term, for the of 66.5 km. The supply line concerns
Rabat. This is a strategic civil engi- ting authority). securing of demand from the coas- the two provinces of Kénitra and
neering project intended to deploy According to engineers on site, the tal area of Kenitra to El Jadida... In a Salé. Theoretically, some 400 million
the interconnection of the Sebou and urgent part of the transfer project second phase, the transfer will make cubic meters of water will be redirec-
Bouregreg river basins, which will concerns the interconnection between it possible to secure demand from the ted annually to the regions of Rabat
strengthen the supply of drinking Sebou (Kenitra) and Bouregreg (Ra- Marrakech-El Haouz system. In the and Casablanca.
water and irrigation both of the city bat). Then, the interconnection will meantime, the interconnection will According to engineers, the soils
of Rabat and of the business metro- crossed, over the 66 kilometers, are
polis, Casablanca. The works will divided into four categories. The
be divided into two phases. The first Civil engineering / Public works heterogeneous nature of the variety
part will allow the connection of the 100% Moroccan companies of soils provides information on the
Sebou dam to the Sidi Mohammed complexity of the sites, which re-
Ben Abdallah dam, at the level of The steering and monitoring of the ciété nouvelle des conduites d’eau), quires technical prowess in terms of
the Bouregreg river basin. This will various phases of the water trans- and STAM (Société des travaux agri- civil engineering, technical studies,
be followed by the phase of the Sidi fer mega-site is provided by several coles marocains). STAM is a com- and the construction of engineering
Mohamed Ben Abdallah reservoirs, teams of engineers and technicians, pany specializing in earthworks, pu- structures. In total, seven territorial
which will then be connected to the design offices, and other stakehol- blic works, large-scale irrigation, and municipalities are covered by the
Imfout dam in the province of Settat. ders. These 100% Moroccan com- road works. The project also includes supply line. In the province of Kéni-
The overall amount of the investment panies specializing in civil engi- design and engineering offices, ex- tra, the supply line crosses the locali-
is 6 billion Dirhams (USD 600 mil- neering, construction, construction perts, as well as engineers from the ties of Ben Mansour, Mograne, Ou-
lion) financed by the national Go- works, and engineering structures, Ministry of Equipment... Delegated led Slama, Ameur Seflia, Haddada,
vernment and the regions. have developed proven expertise, project management is provided by and Sidi Taïbi… In the province of
“The North-South water transfer pro- whether in Morocco or across the the Regional Office for Agricultural Salé, the supply line goes through the
ject is one of the mega-projects that continent. These companies include Development (ORMVA) reporting to localities of Ameur and Shoul. o
Morocco intends to carry out. The SGTM (SGTM (Société générale the Ministry of Agriculture. o Amin RBOUB
project will make it possible to mobi- des travaux du Maroc), SNCE (So-
Friday 28 July 2023