The reservoirs of large dams located in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region have reached more than 876 million m3, said Monday the General Directorate of Water, reporting to the Ministry of Equipment and Water.
The reservoirs of these dams, whose capacity exceeds 1.721 billion m3, have stood, to date, at 876.37 million m3, i.e. a filling rate of 45.87%, compared to approximately 669.98 million m3. m3 during the same period of the previous year (38.91%), specifies a Management report.
In the Loukkos area, the reservoirs of the Oued El Makhazine dam (province of Larache), the largest dam in the region, reached 466.2 million m3, i.e. a filling rate of approximately 69.29% , while the reservoirs of the Dar Khrofa dam stood at 74.7 million m3 (15.55%).
Concerning the reservoirs of the April 9 dam (Tanger-Assilah prefecture), they amounted to 63.54 million m3, i.e. a filling rate of 21.18%, while this rate reached, at the level of the Ibn dam Battouta, 40.79% (11.88 million m3).
In the province of Tetouan, the El Kharroub dam reached a filling rate of 49.20% (92.86 million m3), the Nakhla dam reached a filling rate of 39.57% (1.67 million m3), while the Acharif Al Idrissi dam recorded a filling rate of 81.22% (98.81 million m3).
In the prefecture of M’diq-Fnideq, the Smir dam recorded a filling rate of 74.57% (29.04 million m3), while the Moulay El Hassan Ben El Mahdi dam, located in the province of Fahs-Anjra, recorded a filling rate of 47.67% (11.17 million m3).
The report also notes that the Tanger Méditerranée dam in the province of Fahs-Anjra reached a filling rate of 65.74% (14.48 million m3), while this rate reached 14.77% (1.74 million m3) for the Abdelkrim Al Khattabi dam in the province of Al Hoceima.
Furthermore, the Chefchaouen dam reached a filling rate of 80.68% (9.88 million m3), while the reservoirs of the Joumoua dam (Al Hoceima province) reached 0.41 million m3 ( 7.99%).
Note that the reservoirs of Morocco’s dams have reached, to date, 4,796.27 million m³, i.e. a filling rate of approximately 28.48%.
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