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Signed by the Minister of Tools and Water, Nizar Baraka, and the Egyptian Minister of Water Assets and Irrigation, Hani Sweilem, the settlement goals to strengthen cooperation between the 2 international locations by way of administration and sustainable growth of water assets and to ascertain a cooperative relationship primarily based on equality and mutual pursuits on this space within the brief, medium and lengthy phrases.
The fields of cooperation cowl trendy applied sciences for reuse of rainwater, flooding, design, development and administration of dams and hydraulic buildings, new applied sciences for treating agricultural wastewater, adaptation of water assets to local weather change and strengthening the capacities of employees within the discipline of use and growth of water assets, in addition to the event of seawater desalination applied sciences.
Below this MoU, the 2 events undertake to alternate information, experiences, paperwork and scientific analysis concerning the areas of joint cooperation, to alternate consultants within the discipline of water assets to offer recommendation and technical help, to prepare coaching periods and research visits for executives and consultants from each international locations within the discipline of water assets administration and growth and participation in scientific and technical seminars and conferences associated to the water challenge, that are going down in each international locations.
A joint everlasting technical committee might be shaped to observe the implementation of the agreed points of cooperation. This committee will maintain periodic biannual conferences in Rabat and Cairo, alternately, and submit its report back to the competent ministers of the 2 international locations.
It’s also accountable for creating an government program each two years, monitoring the implementation of cooperation actions deliberate within the government packages, evaluating the achievements ensuing from bilateral cooperation and searching for options to beat the difficulties.
In a press release to MAP following the signing ceremony, Mr. Baraka indicated that the settlement makes it attainable to activate the water adaptation and local weather resilience initiative, often called “AWARe” (Motion for Water Adaptation and Resilience), which goals to strengthen efforts and develop discipline capacities to ascertain water administration methods, and alternate experience and experiences from Center East and African international locations on water points, in order that these international locations profit from funding for his or her tasks.
For his half, the Egyptian minister affirmed that the Moroccan expertise within the discipline of seawater desalination utilizing photo voltaic power is a singular expertise and “forward of many international locations.”
He added that Egypt, for its half, has nice expertise within the reuse of wastewater for agricultural functions, noting that the memorandum of understanding will allow the alternate of data and sharing of data within the discipline of water administration, thus making progress on this space for the 2 brotherly international locations.
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