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Water stress

HM the King shakes up ministers

Judicial year Adjustments Tourism:

Efficiency to the pension closed hotels
weighed scheme for looking for
down by the self-employed new owners

workload workers

Editorial Mobilization Meriem OUDGHIRI

I T is the topic of the and for the next few years. One of the issues consi- But along the way, failures and «holes «began to appear, compounded by
global warming. With its 66.5 kilometers of trenches, the mega-construc-
dered by HM the King to be a major national concern is water.
The Sovereign chaired a working session last Tuesday, recommending tion project of the water highway has made it possible to avert the worst,
that the departments concerned double their vigilance and efforts to meet as Minister Baraka recently announced to MPs. The fact remains that this
the challenge of water security. gigantic project was supposed to have been completed years ago. But it
In Morocco, as elsewhere, deficits are alarming. Today, there is only one took the huge scarcity alert to get the ball rolling.
solution: to bring about a radical change in people’s perceptions and atti- For decades, experts had been predicting that the conflict of the 21st centu-
tudes towards this resource, and to initiate a new generation of strategies ry would certainly be over this resource. And as Loïc Fauchon, President of
for all the ecosystems that revolve around it. the World Water Council, puts it: «We have to make sure that faucets come
It is important to remember that the mid-60s marked a major turning point before guns, and that cell phones leave a little room for drinking water».
with the dam policy. Huge technical and financial resources were mobi- Now more than ever, drinking water needs everyone’s commitment and
lized, enabling the country to withstand the most severe droughts. mobilization. o