Working for the strengthening of basic infrastructure is a priority; maintaining it in good condition further consolidates the new concept of openness and accessibility of citizens to local and quality services. It is the only alternative to ensure balanced urban development in Mohammedia. The essential thing is to look at the problems to catch up on the delay in certain areas, improve and maintain existing infrastructure in good condition. For this, it is necessary to focus on what is useful and find the appropriate means to manage obstacles in a coherent manner. One of the problems that concern the inhabitants of certain neighbourhoods undoubtedly lies in the weakness of public lighting. Notwithstanding the efforts made at this level, in some neighbourhoods, residents are concerned about the weakness of public lighting which promotes insecurity and poses various problems. For this resident, the services concerned "must direct their efforts towards the maintenance of public lighting network installations, particularly the state of certain lampposts and equipment, without forgetting the phenomenon of extinguished lamps." Complaint management is another aspect that must be developed and modernised.
The urban commune of Mohammedia, as an actor in decentralisation, encourages the delegated management of certain basic public services. After the collection of household and similar waste entrusted to Sita Al Beida, the urban commune of Mohammedia opted in the same way, entrusting Lydec with the delegated management of the public lighting service. Lydec therefore ensures the mission of operation and maintenance of the public lighting network installations of the roads. Since then, an improvement has certainly been noted, without however solving the problem in its entirety. Complaints continue, inherent in the weakness of public lighting.
The testimony of this student is relevant: "By entrusting the management of the public lighting service to Lydec, the commune is required to demand a quality service; the local control and monitoring unit must remain attentive to citizens to solve their problems and respond to their requests." The other problem concerns drinking water. Indeed, for a few days, consumers have been asking many questions about the compliance of drinking water with quality standards. "If the quality of drinking water complies with national standards, how then to explain the phenomenon of the colour, smell, and taste of drinking water being somewhat altered?" For this consumer, faced with similar situations, it is up to the services concerned to strengthen the treatment system through the use of techniques and methods in force. The most important thing is to ensure compliance with quality standards during the treatment of drinking water. The services concerned must communicate to reassure citizens and emphasise that drinking water is subject to rigorous control and has no impact on the health of consumers.
In another framework, a solution must be found to overflows and stagnation on the public highway, particularly at the level of passages under the railway, "Pont Ibn Yacine and voie MG", considered as black spots. Interventions have certainly been effective, but do not solve the problem. If Mohammedia is today a city better protected and secured against floods thanks to the completion of major protection projects, we must continue to work in the same direction and with the same dynamic to consolidate citizen accessibility to local and quality services.
What about infrastructure?
In Mohammedia, the public lighting infrastructure consists of 10,945 light points, extending over 292 km of network. "As part of a continuous improvement of the service delivered to residents, Lydec will introduce a new measure in 2012: the illumination rate. Until now, the availability rate, i.e., the average percentage of lights on, remains the main measure used to control the quality of public lighting," can be read in the Lydec activity report for the 2011 financial year. In this sense, the delegate claims to have acquired a new cutting-edge device used for the first time in Morocco.
This allows for measuring the illumination of the city's arteries. "Equipped with GPS beacons, the control devices geolocate under-lit areas. This information is integrated into the geographic information system, in order to ensure the monitoring of areas requiring improvements," the report highlights.
