Water and electricity: New contracts coming soon
In 2023, the Ministry of the Interior continued to carry out a number of projects and implement the action plan drawn up as part of its strategy to develop the sector of delegated management of water distribution, electricity, and liquid waste treatment.
This is to be achieved by strengthening good governance, supporting contract performance monitoring, and improving the level of management of delegated services. The aim is to meet the demands of the population and enable the achievement of contractual goals linked to the securing and generalization of the supply of water, electricity, and liquid waste treatment. The aim is also to increase the quality of services and make them available at the lowest possible cost, in order to preserve the purchasing power of beneficiaries. To this end, several measures have been taken, including institutional reform of the delegating authority, and the updating of contracts and standard documents. In addition, procedures have been unified and improved. The same applies to the restructuring of the distribution sector through the creation of regional multi-service distribution companies.
During the year, the Ministry continued to support the revision of delegated management contracts for the 4 cities of Casablanca, Rabat, Tangiers, and Tetouan, urging the parties concerned to complete the work as quickly as possible. In this context, the review of contracts for the three cities of Rabat, Tangiers, and Tetouan has been completed. The amended contracts for each city have been approved by the supervisory ministry.
As for the delegated management contract for the city of Casablanca, the Ministry is continuing to support work on the second revision. The business capital had experienced major events such as the floods of 2020. The drought in 2021 and 2022 had an impact on the development of the city’s water resources, which affected progress on the contract revision. Despite this, the Ministry urged the contracting company to speed up completion of the revision of the management contract for the city of Casablanca as soon as possible.
The Ministry, as a member of the monitoring committees, examined the documents relating to the annual budgets of the delegated management contracts for 2023 and the five-year budgets 2023-2027 for investments linked to the 4 delegated management contracts. The importance of meeting the contractual requirements of the Works Fund was emphasized. The total amount of investment programs planned for the coming years reaches 19.34 billion Dirhams (USD 1.93 billion), including 4.507 billion (USD 0.45 billion) for 2023 for all three services: water, electricity, and liquid waste treatment..
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