Morocco and Canada Forge Strategic Water Management Partnership
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Roshan Amiri - . January 25, 2025
- . Update: January 25, 2025 8:40 pm
Canada and Morocco have deepened bilateral cooperation on water management and environmental sectors while ambitious plans exist for the association in all sectors of Africa. During a high level meeting, Assistant Deputy Minister for Africa and Global Affairs, Cheryl Urban, of Canada and Nizar Baraka, Minister of Equipment and Water, of Morocco equally reviewed strategic partnerships in the field of technological innovation and expertise exchange.
They are trying to cooperate in addressing the worst environmental problems that countries can suffer, or they are obsessed with sustainable development. Morocco intends to have 95 percent of its population connected to the water and 80 percent of its urban pollution prevented by 2040 under its ambitious National Program for Shared Liquid Sanitation. Canada acknowledges Morocco’s proven expertise in water management and envisions many opportunities in the fields of joint technological and strategic initiatives in Africa in general.
In addition to working bilaterally with the European Union and the National Office of Electricity and Potable Water (ONEE), Morocco is acting as a key regional actor in the area of sustainable water resource development and is engaged in developing water management strategies beyond bilateral cooperation.
