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Rabat – As of March 13, reserves in dams in the Souss-Massa region of southern Morocco exceeded 101,261 million cubic meters, or 13.7% of the total storage capacity.
According to a report published today on the situation of the dams by the Souss-Massa Hydraulic Basin Agency (ABHSM), the filling rate of the Youssef Ibn Tachfin dam stood at 36,567 million cubic meters, or 12.3%, while the reserves of the Aoulouz dam amounted to 10,427 million cubic meters, equivalent to a rate of 11.7%.
The region’s largest dams saw an increase in reserves thanks to the recent rains. Nearly all the dams in the region have reached fill levels deemed sufficient for the water volume.
The water volume stored at the Prince Moulay Abdellah dam amounted to 23,043 million cubic meters, while that of the Abdelmoumen dam in Taroudant held 12,398 million cubic meters.
The Ahl Souss dam recorded a fill rate of 38,5%, equivalent to 1,795 million cubic meters, while the Imi El Kheng dam obtained a fill rate of 28,4% with a volume of 2,768 million cubic meters.
Meanwhile, water reserves at the Dkhila dam stood at 0.127 million cubic meters, while the Mokhtar Soussi dam recorded 7,527 million cubic meters, representing 18.9% of its capacity. As for the Sidi Abdellah dam, its filling rate recorded 63,5%, with total reserves amounting to 101.261 million cubic meters.
Before the recent rains made a big contribution to the filling of the aforementioned dams, a substantial lack of rainfall throughout the 2023–24 water season caused the country’s northern dams to fill at a rate of 42% earlier this month.
The head of the Lockos Water Basin Agency’s water resources management department, Tarik Dib, said in a statement to the website Le 360 that the region the agency covers saw a 34% rainfall shortfall between September 2023 and February 2024 compared to the same period last year.
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