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Morocco 'water highway' averts crisis in big cities but doubts over sustainability

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Morocco has spent $728 million so far on tapping northern rivers to supply water to parched cities farther south.

North African kingdom has long suffered from extreme disparities in rainfall between the Atlas mountain ranges and the semi-arid and desert regions.

The kingdom already suffers from significant water stress after six straight years of drought.

Climate change is likely to see further reductions in rainfall, concentrated in the areas from which the "water highway" is designed to tap surplus flows.

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