HIBAPRESS – Mohamed Menflouti
HIBAPRESS sources have learned that the Ministry of Interior has approved a partnership agreement related to the rehabilitation of the external space of Hassan I University in Settat, which was approved by the Municipal Council of Settat during the October 2025 session.
The head of the Settat municipality, "Nadia Fadmi," said that the cost of this project is estimated at 30 million dirhams (3 billion), with the Ministry of Interior contributing 15 million dirhams (1.5 billion), and the Casablanca-Settat region contributing 15 million dirhams (1.5 billion).
This was reported by "HIBAPRESS," which addressed the disastrous situation of the environmental space of the university campus of Hassan I University in Settat, and through previous statements by the head of the Municipal Council, "Nadia Fadmi," who confirmed at the time that the draft partnership agreement is based on the National Program for Integrated Liquid Sanitation and Reuse of Treated Wastewater (PNAM), and based on the framework agreement for the partnership between the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Equipment and Water, the Wilaya of the Casablanca-Settat region, and the Council of the Casablanca-Settat region, which provides for the implementation of the regional program for the reuse of treated wastewater for irrigating golf courses and green spaces within the Casablanca-Settat region, signed on September 5, 2024. The President added earlier that the draft agreement defined the parties to the agreement represented by the Ministry of Interior, the Casablanca-Settat region, the prefecture of Settat province, the municipality of Settat, the municipality of Sidi El Aidi, the water basin agency of Bouregreg and Chaouia, the regional multi-service company of Casablanca-Settat, and the regional directorate of agriculture. This project will be implemented in two phases over a period of 20 months, divided as follows: The first phase: Construction of the supplementary station, the storage basin, two pumping stations, and the canal designated for irrigating the Royal University Golf and the adjacent green spaces, covering a length of approximately 8.3 km. The second phase: Construction of irrigation canals and connecting them to the rest of the green areas in the municipality of Settat, covering a length of approximately 18.9 km. The estimated total cost of the project is approximately 39.3 million dirhams, including all fees, and including the costs of studies and monitoring of the project. The draft agreement included the commitment of all parties, where the Ministry of Interior is committed to contributing to the financing of the project through the National Program for Integrated Liquid Sanitation and Reuse of Treated Wastewater (PNAM), with reporting on the progress of the project works to the central committee in charge of monitoring the National Program for Integrated Liquid Sanitation and Reuse of Treated Wastewater (PNAM), with providing technical assistance to ensure the implementation of the project, monitoring and evaluating the project. While the Casablanca-Settat region is committed to contributing to the financing of the project, with the presence of the supervisory and follow-up committee works, on the basis that the prefecture of Settat province is committed to the implementation of the project subject to this agreement, by accompanying the implementation of the project in all its stages, and chairing the supervisory and follow-up committee. The municipality of Settat is also committed to making available to the project the real estate necessary to contain all the distribution network, the secondary pumping station and its facilities located at its territorial level, as well as preventing any construction permits at its level and standing on resolving any real estate disputes related to it; granting the necessary administrative permits related to the passage of canals through the paths specified for them in the relevant study, and granting the necessary administrative permits related to the passage of canals through the paths specified for them in the study related to the project, with the reuse of wastewater for irrigating green spaces and the Royal University Golf. The municipality of Sidi El Aidi is also committed to making available to the project the real estate necessary to contain the distribution channel and its facilities located at its territorial level, as well as preventing any construction permits at its level and standing on resolving any real estate disputes related to it, and granting the necessary administrative permits related to the passage of canals through the paths specified for them in the project-related study. As for the regional multi-service company of Casablanca-Settat, and in order to implement the project subject to this agreement, it is committed to making available to the project the real estate belonging to the wastewater treatment plant for the city of Settat in order to contain the following programmed facilities: the supplementary station for treating domestic wastewater, the water storage basin and the main pumping station, and preparing and updating the supplementary studies related to the project and obtaining all permits in accordance with the procedures in force; with preparing and announcing calls for tenders related to the project, and concluding contracts related to the studies and works necessary for the implementation and operation of the facilities implemented in accordance with the laws and regulations in force, with monitoring and supervising the implementation of the project works and operation, and carrying out the provisional and final receipt of the works in the presence of representatives of the prefecture of Settat province and the concerned municipalities, and operating and managing and maintaining the implemented facilities within the framework of the special agreements specified in Article Twelve with the municipality of Settat and the manager of the Royal University Golf, with the distribution of treated wastewater to both the municipality of Settat and the Royal University Golf for irrigating green spaces. As for the Bouregreg and Chaouia Water Basin Agency, it is committed to granting a permit for the reuse of wastewater and working within its areas of competence to monitor the quality of treated wastewater. As for the Regional Directorate of Agriculture in Settat, it is committed to using domestic wastewater that has been treated and stored in the water basins allocated for irrigating agricultural lands in the municipality of Sidi El Aidi, which were implemented by it temporarily to be used for irrigating the Royal University Golf and the adjacent green spaces until the first phase of this project is completed.
