- Morocco’s National Electricity and Drinking Water Company (ONEE) recently inaugurated the new infrastructure.
- The project, valued at 14.2 million Moroccan dirhams (over 1.3 million euros) to secure the drinking water supply to Guercif from groundwater has been completed.
People living in Guercif in the Oriental region of Morocco will certainly have a better drinking water supply. The Moroccan state-owned company, ONEE, has built several structures to exploit the Moulouya water basin. These include five boreholes in the Ras Laksar council, with a total flow rate of 60 litres per second, a recovery station with a reservoir, a control tank, and a 1.5 km pipeline laying.
The project, which aims to secure drinking water supply to the Moroccan town from groundwater, was recently inaugurated by the National Electricity and Drinking Water Company (ONEE). A total of 90,000 inhabitants are benefiting from the project.
In addition to improving the drinking water supply, the inauguration of a new groundwater supply infrastructure for Guercif will promote the socio-economic development of Morocco’s Oriental region. ONEE stated that the flow mobilised by this project would be channelled through the 60km pipeline already laid as part of the structural project to reinforce and secure the supply of drinking water to the town of Guercif from the Targa Ou Madi dam, which will be inaugurated before the end of 2023. ONEE has invested 14.2 million in the project.