This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress
Projects for a global investment of more than 126 million dirhams are scheduled for the year 2025 by the agency of the Sebou hydraulic basin (ABHS) in the context of efforts aimed at the rational management of water resources.
These projects concern several areas, including the maintenance and protection of hydraulic installations for dams with a total investment of more than 59 million DH, monitoring and evaluation of hydraulic resources (21.5 MDH), groundwater mobilization (21 MDH) and the planning and management of hydraulic resources (7 MDH), according to ABHS.
As part of the planning and management of water resources, the agency has devoted six million DH to carry out a study relating to the development of the 2025-2030 action plan for the integrated management of hydraulic resources across the Sebou basin.
Emphasis will also be placed on the modernization of computer systems for a global investment of nearly 8 million DH, capacity building and the development of general means and the modernization of administration (8.4 MDH) and communication, awareness and partnership (0.95 MDH).
During the last board of directors of the agency recently held in Fez, under the presidency of the Minister of Equipment and Water, Nizar Baraka, the adoption of several partnership agreements affecting different fields, including the fight against water pollution, the management of water resources, the development and exploitation of the hydraulic domain in addition to the flooding of the Basin, was adopted. Sebou.
The Sebou Basin, which now has 12 large dams and 51 small, seal lakes, is considered one of the most important basins in the kingdom. It is spread over an area of around 40,000 km2 with an average annual rainfall of the 600 mm basin.
It includes 316 territorial municipalities, spread over 18 provinces and prefectures, 9 of which are in whole (Meknes, El Hajeb, Fez, Moulay Yaacoub, Sefrou, Taounate, Sidi Slimane, Sidi Kacem and Kénitra) and 9 partially (Ifrane, Boulemane, Salé, Taza, Chefchaouen, Ouazzane, Khémisset et al hoceima).
This basin covers three regions, namely Fès-Meknès, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima.
