“Water for all is a major objective set out by His Majesty the King who insists on the imperative of a continuous updating of the levers of the national water policy and on the definition of a strategic objective, which whatever the circumstances,” Mr. Akdim, who is also president of the “Lissane Eddine Ibn Al Khatib” Foundation, told MAP.
According to the researcher, the royal speech not only sounded the alarm by evoking these problems and the external constraints linked in particular to global climate change, but presented concrete intervention actions to positively reverse the trends on a national and targeted regional areas.
He noted that these actions are framed by a “coherent royal vision” of priorities and projects that are essential in the short, medium and long terms.
An assimilation of spatial and regional disparities in terms of available resources and needs was highlighted by the Sovereign who underlines in all cases, the need to satisfy the needs of all populations, both rural and urban, with drinking water.
In this sense, he called for innovation in terms of practices, particularly in terms of agricultural use of water.
“Innovation in the service of water is a key word in the royal speech,” he commented, noting whether in terms of finding solutions to successive water crises or training effective skills and human resources, innovation is required.
“Agriculture is the excessive consumer of water. We must therefore rethink policies, practices and techniques to ensure greater conservation, optimization and added value of the resource,” he insisted.
“Many are those who are linked to water. But a better thought out and structured policy on water themes in the Moroccan cultural and socio-economic context remains to be developed around unifying axes integrating all the key parameters and interfaces , such as the technical, socio-economic, cultural and territorial aspects of water”, concluded Mr. Akdim.