Symposium on water, recycling, and waste recovery

The council of the Urban Commune of Fès has invested more than 2 billion dirhams (MMDH) over the last five years in the realization of environmental projects, affirmed, last Monday in Fès, the vice-president of the Urban Commune, Allal Amraoui. The spiritual capital is "committed to energy efficiency, liquid sanitation, renewable energy, environmental protection, and waste treatment plans," he made known during the opening of an international symposium on "Water, recycling, and waste recovery." The city equipped itself, as early as 2004, with a controlled landfill that will soon begin to produce electrical energy from biogas, he specified, adding that the sanitation sector has also been strengthened by a master plan for the hydraulic network and a wastewater treatment plant meeting international standards. This station, compliant with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), covers 50% of energy needs by using nearly 15,000m3/day of methane to produce approximately 22 million kwh/year of electricity, he explained. For his part, the president of the Sustainable Development Think Tank (GRDD), Farid Zerrouq, highlighted the interest and topicality of the theme of waste treatment and recovery, while emphasizing the phenomenon of the scarcity of raw materials and water resources throughout the world. This symposium, bringing together Moroccan and foreign academics, industrialists, and researchers, aims to promote national scientific research in the fields of water treatment and management, as well as waste recycling and recovery, he recalled, stressing the need to protect the rights of future generations to a clean environment, by advocating for changing behaviours, awareness-raising, education on respect for nature, and the launch of research and development actions to preserve biodiversity. Initiated by the GRDD jointly with the Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, this two-day symposium tends to sensitize decision-makers and economic and political operators to the challenges of recycling and waste recovery for sustainable development in Morocco and to strengthen the exchange of scientific experiences between the various national and international researchers. This meeting is structured around several themes, including "water treatment", "water, energy, and the environment", "material recycling", "waste recovery", "the challenges of recycling and waste recovery", "innovative methods for water treatment", and "new technologies for recycling and waste recovery". This symposium was marked by the signing of partnership agreements with national and foreign organizations and a tribute paid to several Moroccan personalities for their contribution to the sustainable development of the country.

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