TAQA Morocco for Community has launched a call for innovation applications targeting sustainable water management solutions, coinciding with World Environment Day. The initiative, open through to the end of August 2026, is directed at Moroccan start-ups, students, doctoral candidates, and young researchers, and is backed by a total prize package of 300,000 dirhams.
The program responds to what its sponsors describe as Morocco’s worsening water scarcity, driven by a combination of prolonged droughts, irregular rainfall, and steadily rising demand. In rural areas in particular, the challenges of ensuring reliable access to potable water, effective treatment, and efficient resource management have become acute. The call for applications seeks to mobilize technological, organizational, and social innovation to address these realities.
Two distinct awards will be granted: a Start-up Prize and a Researchers Prize. Each prize includes an invitation to the World Water Forum to be held in Riyadh in 2027, a laptop computer, and material resources to support the implementation of the winning solution. Individual and collective applications are accepted. Eligible start-ups must be in the seed or early development phase; researchers must be affiliated with Moroccan universities or recognized research centers.
The initiative forms part of TAQA Morocco’s environmental, social, and governance strategy and reflects what the company describes as a commitment to environmental stewardship, territorial development, and social innovation that extends beyond its core operational activities. TAQA Morocco, which operates the Jorf Lasfar thermal power plant — one of Africa’s largest — has increasingly framed its community engagement work in terms of long-term sustainability objectives.
The program illustrates a broader trend among Morocco’s major industrial operators, who are channeling corporate social responsibility resources into innovation-led responses to water scarcity — a challenge that cuts across agriculture, urban supply, and industrial use, and that has been identified by government planners as one of the most pressing structural risks to Morocco’s medium-term development trajectory.
