In response to climate change marked by drought and the resurgence of extreme weather phenomena such as heavy rainfall and flooding, the services of the Province of Berkane have established a monitoring commission aimed at preventing and mitigating the negative effects of adverse weather conditions on citizens and their property.
This commission is made up of a set of actors such as the Province of Berkane, the Provincial Council of Berkane, the Provincial Directorate of Equipment and Water, ORMVAM, the Provincial Directorate of ONEE-Branch
Water. The said commission carried out rigorous work for months, divided between preventive and awareness-raising measures on the one hand, and actions on the ground at black spots and areas at high risk of flooding.
Human, technical and logistical resources have been put in place by the various actors and departments mentioned above, to successfully carry out the maintenance and operation of the sanitation network in the city of Berkane, as well as the maintenance work on agricultural sanitation networks. The scope of intervention also covered the cleaning and channeling work of manholes and drains, gutters and storm overflows. Efforts and particular attention were paid in particular to the road network through the treatment of all predefined and identified black spots at the level of art roundabouts and gutters along the road network to avoid any detrimental breakdown.
In the same context, a strengthening of road signs has taken place in areas experiencing the phenomenon of landslides and falling stones on the Tafoughalt and Zegzel national road, for example.
This commission was created with the objective of ensuring the safety of citizens and their property and their protection against possible damage that could be caused by bad weather, and has put in place a set of preventive and intervention measures. and monitoring, and having held a series of meetings and empirical visits on the various points concerned, around which all the actors united.
