Morocco - Eighth Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Project (DWSSP)

The present intervention focus on the eighth Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Project (DWSS). It aims to enable the Government of Morocco, in the short term, to increase the rural access rate from 55% in 2004 to 92% in 2007. This access rate is beyond the Millennium Development Goals (a halving of the population without access to drinking water). The expected effects of the project are: (1) to meet, from 2008, the increase in the demand for Drinking Water Supply (DWS); (2) to ensure water resources for DWS feeding; (3) to provide drinking water supply for 3 new tourist areas and a new port complex from 2008; (4) to protect the water table that supplies the area from Kenitra to Salé; and (4) to ensure the liquid sanitation of Sidi Taibi for a population. The project consists of the following main components: (i) drinking water supply systems; (ii) purification of wastewater from the center of Sidi Taibi; (iii) acquisition of land necessary for the laying of the pipes; (iv) geotechnical control consisting of laboratory tests; and (v) studies, supervision and control of the works.