At a time when a severe drought is raging across the Kingdom, all means are good to reduce the consumption of conventional water, including stopping the watering of green spaces in cities.
Should we, however, sacrifice all these plants? In Casablanca, relay Al Ahdath Al Maghribia from this Wednesday, September 4, 2024, a solution was found to preserve both water resources and green spaces.
For two weeks, gardeners in the City of Casablanca have been using treated wastewater to water the squares and public gardens for which they are responsible.
The daily explains that the irrigation water now used in Casablanca comes from the Médiouna treatment plant. After being reprocessed, it arrives at its destination via a vast network of pipes.
The Médiouna WWTP produces more than 3,000 cubic meters of treated wastewater every day, which helps to preserve the city’s environment and maintain its green spaces.
Al Ahdath Al Maghribia explains that the Médiouna treatment plant was connected to a distribution network with a total distance of 31 kilometers, which provides treated water that can potentially irrigate nearly 200 hectares of green spaces.
According to the daily, this is the case of the green spaces of Mohammed VI Boulevard, the golf courses of Anfa and Mohammedia, the promenade of the Hassan II mosque, as well as the Arab League park.
The Step of Médiouna, written Al Ahdath Al Maghribiawill convert 550,000 cubic metres of wastewater from across the province each year, which was previously discharged into the sewers.
The daily also recalls that the Médiouna WWTP, inaugurated by King Mohammed VI in 2013, was built on an area of more than 3.5 hectares by Lydec, for a total budget of 141 million dirhams.
For almost two years, before these measures to rationalize water consumption, Casablanca’s green spaces were watered by well water, transported by tanker trucks.
Al Ahdath Al Maghribia also reports an ambitious project to expand the treatment capacities of this station, with the aim of increasing its production to more than 7,600 cubic metres per day, which will contribute to meeting the ever-increasing needs for treated water in the region, particularly in this difficult water context.
By Fayza Senhaji
03/09/2024 at 6:36 p.m.
