Morocco: Source of life, water is getting scarcer

A national debate on water management in Morocco focused upon water levels in the Souss Massa Basin when the Minister of Land Development, Water, and the Environment, Mohamed Elyazghi, held a meeting in Agadir. The Souss-Massa-Dra Region suffers from water shortages, and building reservoirs is becoming too expensive; a better long-term solution, agreed meeting participants, would be to teach farmers not to waste so much irrigation water. The Sebt El Guerdane area is a sad example: many farms there have been abandoned because of a lack of water.