The Moroccan “Water for Africa” initiative, which was born at COP22 in Marrakech in 2016, has just been adopted in Abuja (Nigeria) on 28 November, at the 15th edition of the AMCOW “Executive Committee of the African Ministers’ Council on Water”. Held on the theme “Towards water security and safe sanitation in Africa”, this edition was an opportunity for Morocco’s Secretary of State for Water, Charafat Afilal, to invite her counterparts to show greater solidarity and cooperation in order to implement the action plan of the “Water for Africa” initiative. Backed by the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the World Water Council, this project aims to supply drinking water to nearly 330 million Africans, to mobilise 11 billion dollars a year for the construction of distribution and sanitation infrastructure and, finally, to restore balance across the African continent in the face of climate change.
