MOROCCO NEWSLINE – The World Bank has estimated that the available water per person in the MENA region will be halved by 2050. Nonetheless, the financial institution announced in a March 2010 project update that Morocco was “on track to exceed the targets for water and sanitation services contained in the Millennium Development Goals”, having increased “its “urban, peri-urban, and rural water supply and sanitation infrastructure programmes spending” from 5% to 25% of total water expenditure between 2005 and 2009. As a result, access to potable water increased from 50% in 2004 to 87% in 2009. Read More
