Morocco Secures Over €200,000 Grant From AfDB To Boost Water Resources Development(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Morocco has secured €201,000 grant from the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group to strengthens its technical assistance and boost water resources management. The grant, extended through the Bank’s Technical Assistance Fund for Middle-Income Countries, is primarily for Technical Assistance for Dam Design and Interconnection Studies in the north African nation. It will support technical assistance to the Government of Morocco for the design of dams, river development and inter-basin interconnection studies. The Moroccan Government established a National Programme for Drinking Water Supply and Irrigation (2020-2027) to address the difficult water situation and signed its implementation agreement on 13 January 2020. Others are aimed at developing non-conventional water resources, in particular through the desalination of seawater, improving access to drinking water in rural areas, securing and boosting potable water supply to urban areas, improving the efficiency of installations, and increasing the autonomy of the drinking water supply.