title: Review of the wastewater situation in Morocco.
abstract: Recent estimations of the wastewater production of Morocco amounted to 370 million m3 per year, and this is expected to increase to 900 million m3 by the year 2020. In most cases wastewater is discharged directly into the environment, either to the sea via short outfalls or onto farmland for irrigation or infiltration. Major improvements in the quality of wastewater are needed urgently because of the strong migration of the rural population towards the towns and the very rapid demographic expansion. Studies for Sanitation Master Plans for the main towns are currently in progress and are a first step towards meeting these requirements. Development of a national master plan for liquid sewage is a way of extending this procedure over the whole territory.
authors.affiliation: Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences Semlalia, Marrakech, Morocco.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mandi
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000639:trends; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D009018:Morocco; D012722:Sewage; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid; D018508:Water Purification
chemical_list: D012722:Sewage