IWRA World Water Congress 2025 Marrakech Morocco
Water Security and Water-Related Risks
Author(s): Abdessamad ZILALI and Moulay Driss Hasnaoui
Abdessamad ZILALI and Moulay Driss Hasnaoui
Mohammadia School of Engineers, Rabat, Morocco
Presentation date : 04-12-2025
Oral: PDFAbstractContext and Motivation
- Tensift Basin in central Morocco: strong dependence on surface irrigation.
- Agriculture relies on traditional seguias for water diversion.
- Increasing pressure on water resources due to climate change and agricultural expansion.
- Persistent issues: inefficient water allocation, upstream–downstream inequities, high conveyance losses.
Research Objectives
- Overall aim: build a data-informed, reproducible framework to quantify withdrawals and predict irrigation requirements.
- Evaluate irrigation withdrawals in Rhéraya, Ourika, R’dat and Zat sub-basins.
- Analyze upstream–downstream interactions and spatial inequities in access.
- Quantify statistical dependencies between withdrawals and river flows.