23 and 24 March 2012 at the Tarik Ibn Zyad high school: World Water Day celebrated by ASEET

The countries of the Mediterranean rim and more particularly those of the South shore have not been able, in recent decades, characterised by increasingly structural droughts, to satisfy their needs for water and energy. It must be said that the related demands are growing under the combined effect of population growth and the development of certain water and energy-consuming activities, notably the tourism, industry, and agriculture sectors. These increases occur while a significant decrease in water inputs is recorded, which are moreover increasingly irregular, and an energy cost in almost continuous increase under the effect of the surge in oil prices, the source of most of the energy produced thermally in Morocco.In this context, which is both difficult and complex, all decision-makers and the scientific community consider that good governance and efficient allocation of resources r…