Morocco is accelerating efforts to guarantee a stable water supply amid ongoing climate pressures, combining rapid expansion of seawater desalination with improved dam storage levels, water minister Nizar Baraka said.
Current dam reserves now exceed 11 billion cubic meters, with overall fill rates at nearly 66 percent, more than double last year’s level, Baraka told members of parliament.
This stockpile can cover drinking water needs nationwide for an additional two years, he said.
The kingdom operates 154 large dams with a total capacity of 20.8 billion cubic meters, alongside smaller reservoirs and transfer systems.
At the same time, the government is investing in non-conventional resources.
Existing desalination plants already produce 410 million cubic meters annually.
Authorities plan 15 new stations by 2029 to raise total output to 2.3 billion cubic meters per year by 2030–2033.
Of this volume, 1.3 billion cubic meters will go to drinking water, 700 million to agriculture, and 300 million to industry.
