Morocco: HM The King Enquires about Oujda Liquid Sanitation Program

HM King Mohammed VI asks about the progress of the Oujda liquid sanitation priority program, with a cost of 550 million dirhams (about $ 63 million), and inaugurated a rainwater drainage system to protect the southern sector of the city against floods.

This ambitious program provides for equipping with sanitation facilities outlying and under-equipped neighborhoods as well as upgrading and expanding the sanitation network through the setting up of two wastewater pumping stations and renewal of two collectors.

The program includes the implementation of the first phase of the construction works to protect the southern sector of the city against floods, worth 178 millions dirhams. During the first phase a rainwater drainage system, strengthening the main collector will be built together with eight storm water detention pond.