To ensure the drinking water supply for the communes of the Sidi Bennour province, the ONEEP has proceeded to strengthen its infrastructure to sustain the drinking water supply.

Better water management combined with a well-thought-out supply is what the organisation has developed in its approach to serving the population. The commissioning of supply and reinforcement stations for drinking water in the communes and surrounding localities is part of this perspective of generalising services.

This will make it possible to bring the access rate to drinking water to 70% in the Sidi Bennour province. This is equivalent to the national average. This project concerns the water supply from the Oum Errabia. It required a budget of 352,000 DH. In parallel with this main project, the generalisation of access to drinking water will affect eleven rural communes under the Sidi Bennour province. The raw water will thus be distilled via the treatment station to be drinkable. It will subsequently be distributed over 132 km of pipes served essentially by reservoirs and pumping stations. The sum released to carry out this project is around 1 million dirhams.

The surface waters of the Massira dam reservoirs are of good quality. The water is thus made drinkable in three stages: clarification, refining, and disinfection. An intake at the level of this dam with raw untreated water supply is routed via supply lines over about fifty kilometres.

Once it arrives at the treatment station, it is stored in basins to be treated and analysed by settling tanks to decant the mud solids. It is subsequently clarified by filters to be disinfected before reaching the consumer. The final disinfection is an additional precaution, guaranteeing drinkable water without risk. This settling tank technique is specific to this station in the Doukkala region.

The working session to present the supply stations was chaired by El Mostapha Draiss, governor of the province, in the presence of the director general of the ONEEP, Jamal Raissi, the secretary general of the province, the pashas, the heads of the circles, the deputies of the province, and the presidents of the communes of the province.

-* Access to drinking water in figures:

-* The total population served by this reinforcement amounts to 368,000 inhabitants.

-* The access rate to drinking water reaches 96%.

-* Overall, this project will benefit 65 Douars and

-* 98,000 households at the level

-* of the province.