Climate Resilient Water Resources Management: Office National de l'Électricité et de l'Eau Potable
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Climate Resilient Water Resources Management: Office National de l'Électricité et de l'Eau Potable
This report evaluates how Office National de l'Électricité et de l'Eau Potable supports Morocco’s transition from rainfall-dependent supply toward desalination, water reuse, aquifer management, regional interconnection, and climate-resilient bulk water production.
This Our Future Water Intelligence report provides an independent assessment of ONEE’s climate-resilience strategy, non-conventional water portfolio, investment requirements, institutional role, financing architecture, and long-term operational risk.
Target Audience
- Utility Executives & System Operators: Assess how national production, bulk transmission, desalination, treatment, storage, transfers, and network-efficiency programmes are being coordinated.
- Regulators & Policymakers: Examine how water legislation, basin governance, regional service reform, national planning, and climate-adaptation priorities affect institutional accountability.
- Infrastructure Investors & Financiers: Evaluate sovereign support, development finance, public-private delivery, energy exposure, project sequencing, and long-term capital requirements.
Report Deliverables
- Strategic System Assessment: Reviews Morocco’s transition from rainfall-dependent resources toward diversified and climate-resilient water production.
- Resource Portfolio Assessment: Examines desalination, treated-wastewater reuse, aquifer recharge, transfers, groundwater protection, and network efficiency.
- Capital Programme Assessment: Evaluates investment requirements, financing sources, delivery structures, implementation capacity, and infrastructure risk.
- Governance Risk Assessment: Reviews national planning, basin-level management, regional service companies, institutional coordination, and regulatory accountability.
- Energy-Water Assessment: Examines renewable-energy integration, desalination power demand, electricity-water coordination, and long-term operating-cost exposure.
The Five Strategic Pillars
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Architectures: Climate-Driven Water Scarcity
Assesses how recurrent drought, reduced reservoir reliability, groundwater overexploitation, uneven resource distribution, and increasing demand establish the physical basis for a diversified national water strategy.
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Enablement: Non-Conventional Water Resources
Examines desalination, treated-wastewater reuse, managed aquifer recharge, inter-basin transfers, demand management, and non-revenue-water reduction as an integrated climate-adaptation portfolio.
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Resolution: Multi-Creditor Financing Architecture
Evaluates how sovereign expenditure, development-bank lending, bilateral finance, public-private partnerships, domestic financing, and results-based programmes support long-cycle water infrastructure.
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Alignment: Governance and Institutional Restructuring
Analyses how water legislation, Hydraulic Basin Agencies, regional multiservice companies, central government institutions, municipalities, and ONEE divide responsibility for planning, production, transmission, and service delivery.
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Capability Building: Energy-Water Integration
Explores how ONEE’s combined electricity and water responsibilities can support renewable-powered desalination, energy-efficient treatment, coordinated grid planning, and lower exposure to long-term power-price risk.
Operational Excellence & Resilience
ONEE supports national drinking-water production, treatment, bulk transmission, storage, and service delivery across a geographically diverse and increasingly water-stressed system. Operational resilience depends on coordinating conventional surface water with desalination, groundwater, transfers, reuse, and emergency supply measures.
The report examines how source diversification interacts with network efficiency, energy demand, treatment complexity, asset maintenance, water-quality control, regional distribution reform, and financial capacity. Particular attention is given to whether institutional and delivery capability can keep pace with the scale of planned infrastructure transformation.
National Water Plan 2020-2050 total investment envelope, with PNAEPI 2020-2027 at 143 billion MAD and ONEE's Equipment Plan 2025-2030 committing 220 billion MAD across electricity and water sectors.
Lead Analyst
Expert Analysis: FAQs
ONEE connects national water-production planning with treatment, bulk transmission, electricity supply, and regional service delivery. Its institutional position makes it central to implementing source diversification while maintaining water quality, continuity, operational efficiency, and financial control.
The central transition is the movement from heavy dependence on rainfall-fed reservoirs and stressed groundwater toward a diversified portfolio incorporating seawater desalination, reuse, managed recharge, transfers, efficiency, and improved system interconnection.
Governance reform places greater emphasis on ONEE’s national production and bulk-supply functions while regional entities assume broader responsibility for local distribution services. Effective implementation depends on clear asset boundaries, coordinated planning, reliable data, commercial agreements, and enforceable performance responsibilities.
Morocco’s water transition requires simultaneous delivery across production, transmission, reuse, efficiency, and regional infrastructure. A coordinated financing architecture is therefore necessary to allocate construction risk, maintain affordability, mobilise development capital, and prevent fragmented projects from weakening national system performance.
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