Morocco purchases two mobile water labs
Morocco, Environment, 10/28/2003

Morocco has purchased two on-wheel labs to control water behavior and quality in places that are not covered by its water-monitoring stations network.

It intends to add two more before the end of the year.

The 4WD vehicles, fitted with sophisticated data-processing equipment, were tested for the first time Saturday in a Mohammedia (near Casablanca) river in the presence of secretary of state in charge of water, Abdelkebir Zahoud.

With the German-made mounted labs, authorities can carry out swift and flexible operations in remote and difficult areas to help make accurate decisions.

According to a document of the secretariat of state in charge of water, over 390 including 50 priority sites have been classified. All of them have been analyzed to finalize a prevention program.

Climatic changes have caused floods in several regions of the kingdom, Zahoud said, during the Saturday tests, stressing Morocco's important efforts in the field, especially at the level of cities, through its five-year Nationwide Plan of Floods Fighting.

Special focus is laid on areas that were flooded last years such as Western Mohammedia, Settat and Berrechid, and the southern city of Tan Tan which was flooded this August.

Morocco has 170 stations equipped with radio-transmitters scattered all over the country and sending regular information on the hydraulic situation.

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