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Essaouira, formerly Mogador, is a historic Atlantic port city in the Marrakesh-Safi region. Renowned for its UNESCO-listed medina...

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News 21 May 2012 4 min read

The mouth of Oued L’ksob transformed into an open sewer

The mouth of Oued L’ksob transformed into an open sewer
Visibly, Essaouira does not stop collecting ecological crimes. First, the forest was massacred, the ecosystem of Mogador was destabilised, and the silting up of a large part of the city was caused. Then, they began to raze the phenomenal dunes that contain a unique biodiversity to give way to cement and concrete, and thus sacrifice several tens of years of efforts provided by the engineers and agents of the Water and Forests service who proceeded to fix the dunes thanks to the branching technique which allowed the stabilisation of a dune zone constituting a security belt ensuring the sustainability of a civilisation threatened by desertification. Today, we are witnessing a new scandal, a horror even: the mouth of Oued L’ksob, a Ramsar-listed ecological heritage site, has been transformed into an open sewer and a rubble dump."It's scandalous, the polluted water coming from El Ghazoua is…

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