In Morocco, the Division of Larache, located in the Tangier-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma region, some 86 km south of Tangier, will benefit from a series of facilities designed to improve liquid sanitation. The Moroccan government, through its Ministry of Public Works and Water, and the Ministry of the Interior, will be supporting this project. Firstly, with a budget of 617 million Moroccan dirhams, or around 57 million euros. The financing agreement was signed recently with the municipality of Larache and the autonomous water and electricity distribution agency of the Larache prefecture (Radeel).
The two ministerial departments will oversee the implementation of the sewerage project, which will see the rehabilitation and extension of the liquid sewerage network in the town of Larache. The aim is to reduce the pollution of aquatic environments and protect the health of people whose livelihoods depend on these environments.
Delivery of sewage treatment facilities by 2026
The liquid wastewater treatment project also involves the construction of channels for collecting and transferring wastewater to two future treatment plants to be built in the councils of Laouamra and La Côte, in the Larache division. The treated effluent will be returned to nature.
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While additional data on the project is being provided progressively, the Moroccan Ministry of Public Works and Water indicates that the new liquid sanitation facilities in Larache should be delivered by 2026, speeding up the completion of the National Liquid Sanitation and Wastewater Treatment Programme (PNA). Launched in 2005, the initiative aims to improve health conditions in municipalities and the environment in Morocco’s water basins by 2030.
Inès Magoum