This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press
Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch underlined, Monday, during a monthly accounting session at the House of Representatives, on the theme “Basic infrastructure is a lever for economic and social development”, the importance of questions of sovereignty in within the Royal High Directions.
Akhannouch explained during the session that this importance has prompted the government to act seriously and responsibly in order to strengthen the strategic security of priority sectors, particularly with regard to the fight against water stress and food sovereignty, the strengthening of the Kingdom’s energy security and the development of national industry.
He highlighted that the government has paid exceptional attention to these vital areas, providing them with promising transformation pathways and reshaping their production capacities, so as to strengthen their capacity to keep pace with national needs and cope with the risks.
In terms of water security, the government focused on accelerating the implementation of the National Drinking Water and Irrigation Water Supply Program (2020-2027), as a implementation of the directives royal measures aimed at improving the water supply. resources to ensure that the country’s needs are met by 100% drinking water and 80% water coverage, which is less than the irrigation water needs.
To develop water supplies, our country has adopted strategic programs within the framework of dam policy, as a proactive and long-term approach to avoid disastrous consequences linked to the limited and volatile nature of its water resources.
Akhannouch added that the government is working to accelerate the completion of major water transfer projects between watersheds to ensure the hydraulic connection between the Oued Lao-Larache and Lokos basins and the Oum Er basin. -Rbia, the first part of which (between the Oued Sebou and Bouregreg Basins) was completed, with a financial envelope estimated at 6 billion AED, with a transport capacity of water estimated at 15 cubic meters per second (about one million cubic meters per day).
He went on to say: “In order to continue supporting the production of extraordinary water resources, the government is working to accelerate the pace of completion of seawater desalination projects and develop a local production industry. of desalinated water while encouraging the use of renewable energies to produce desalinated water. by continuing the implementation of 7 projects and launching work on 9 other new water desalination plants. » Sea by 2030 (in addition to the 14 stations currently available), with the aim of increasing from a current capacity estimated at around 254 million cubic meters to reach a total capacity of around 1.7 billion cubic meters . cubic meters per year by 2030.
At the level of industrial sovereignty, Akhannouch stressed that the government is continuing its efforts to strengthen the national industrial sector, by following the rhythm of our national productive system and pushing its qualitative transformation.
The government also worked to launch 32 new projects for the creation and expansion of industrial zones, industrial acceleration zones and economic activity zones, spread across all regions of the Kingdom, which will provide industrial land additional estimated at 3,700 hectares, i.e. an increase of 30% of the current total area (13,600 hectares). This will help create good reception conditions for investment projects and ensure their optimal territorial distribution.
