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Morocco to spend $12 billion to secure water supply over next seven years

  • Morocco to spend $12 billion to secure water supply over next seven years
    Three women walk with their donkey carrying plastic containers of water to their homes in the community of Ait Hammou Ouhmad on the edge of Azrou in Morocco, November 6, 2019. REUTERS/Abdelhak Balhak
  • As climate change threatens supplies, the country will build dams, protect sources and take other action, it said. 

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Morocco will spend 115 billion dirhams ($12 billion) on water supply between 2020 and 2027 to meet increasing demand, the state news agency reported on Tuesday.

Morocco was ranked as the 22nd-most water stressed country in a report last August by the World Resources Institute, a watchdog of global resources.

Farm income is volatile in semi-arid Morocco where climate change has caused droughts and summer flash floods in some areas.

The seven-year programme will include dam building, improving water consumption, preserving water resources and increasing supply in rural areas, the news agency said.

Water demand has surged in recent years especially in the north because of an expansion of urban centres and industrial activity.

Morocco's economic growth should fall to 2.7% in 2019 from 3% in 2018 on the back of a lack of rainfall which caused a 49% drop in cereals output in 2019 compared with a year earlier, according to the central bank.

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