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13.5 METRIC Applications for Morocco Water Management
13.5.1 Study Area
The World Bank and government of Morocco's Oum Er Rbia Irrigated Agriculture
Modernization Project (MA Project) selected 12 irrigation pilot sectors in 3
ORMVA (Office R´gional de Mise en Valeur Agricole) water management districts
in the Oum Er Rbia basin and in the adjacent Tensift river basin. Some of the pilot
sectors were selected for early project irrigation improvements or modernization;
others were selected as comparison sectors to assess project impacts (Driss).
Figure 13.2 shows the pilot sectors and ORMVA boundaries; Haouz and Tadla
are located near the base of the Atlas Mountains, while Doukkala is near the
Atlantic coast. These three ORMVAs contain 356,220 Ha of developed irrigated
agriculture (El Faiz et al. 2001 ).
13.5.2 Method
The Tadla, Doukkala, and Haouz water districts required a standard METRIC
application, described in Sect. 4 , although surface temperature was calculated
Fig. 13.2 Overview of study area showing Morocco water districts (ORMVAs) Tadla, Doukkala,
and Haouz and pilot irrigation sectors