The Bouregreg basin in Morocco, having a surface of around 10000 km2, has its water resources diminishing over time at an increasing rate because of the rising demand and the climatic conditions. The total population in the basin is around 2 million persons and lives mainly in the urban centres of Rabat, Sale and Khémisset. The main land uses in the basin are agriculture, grazing, forest, urban and rural settlements. The aim of proposing the basin in the UNESCO/HELP programme is to contribute to the integrated management of water resources in this basin by conducting studies on the definition of the development of potentials and constraints of the resource, identification of the changes that have arise in uses and in biological resources, the characterisation of the current state of the ecosystem and assessing modifications in these components, the determination of the current state of human activities and natural phenomena and the incorporation of this knowledge to draw a diagnosis of the site which will serve as a basis for developing a framework for an Integrated master plan for integrated water management in the basin.
Keywords: Bouregreg basin, HELP program, water resources, Morocco
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Khattabi, A. (2008). The Proposal of IWRM in the Bouregreg Basin and How it Fits with the UNESCO/HELP Policy Program. In: Meire, P., Coenen, M., Lombardo, C., Robba, M., Sacile, R. (eds) Integrated Water Management. NATO Science Series, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6552-1_13
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