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It reviews historic trends, including the declining and deteriorating water resource and the socio-economic impacts of droughts, then assesses past response efforts and their limitations. The report frames water scarcity as a long-term development threat through demand-supply tension and projected impacts, and concludes with recommendations covering an ambitious action plan, risks, resource tradeoffs, and complementary softer measures.","Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized  \nMIDDLE EAST AND  \nNORTH AFRICA  \nBackground Paper  \nWater Scarcity and Droughts  \nWorld Bank Group  \nContents  \nExecutive Summary ................................................................................................................................................................. 1  \nHistoric trends: Water Scarcity and Droughts in Morocco.................................................................................................. 2  \n1.1. A Declining and Deteriorating Water Resource .................................................................................................... 2  \n1.2. Socio-economic impacts of droughts ................................................................................................................... 4  \n1.3. Past efforts to tackle water scarcity: ambitious plans with some shortcomings .............................................. 7  \nWater Scarcity & Droughts: A Major Threat on Long-Term Development......................................................................12  \n2.1. A Growing Tension between Water Demand and Supply...................................................................................12  \n2.2. Projected Impacts of Water Scarcity and Droughts ........................................................................................... 14  \nRecommendations to Tackle Water Scarcity and Droughts ............................................................................................22  \n3.1. An Ambitious Plan to Tackle Water Scarcity and Droughts................................................................................22  \n3.2. Potential Pitfalls of the 2050 PNE ......................................................................................................................23  \n3.3. Tradeoffs in the Use of Public Resources...........................................................................................................24  \n3.4. Complementary Soft Measures ..........................................................................................................................28  \nBibilography ......................................................................................................................................................................30  \nList of Figures  \nFigure 1: Morocco’s water inflows (in billion m3/year) ................................................................................................... 2  \nFigure 2: Cereal production and rainfall ......................................................................................................................... 4  \nFigure 3: Agriculture Value Added and rainfall ............................................................................................................... 4  \nFigure 4: Agriculture Value Added and GDP ................................................................................................................... 4  \nFigure 5: Historical decomposition of the annual variation of GDP (SVAR) .................................................................. 6  \nFigure 6: Climate Multi-Risk Insurance penetration rate for large crops (current and target 2030)......................... 7  \nFigure 7: Morocco’s wheat production, imports, and precipitation ............................................................................. 7  \nFigure 8: Morocco’s barley production, imports, and precipitation ............................................................................. 7  \nFigure 9: Evolution of dam capacity and number of dams* in Morocco over the past 50 years ...............................8  \nFigure 10: Registered water volume of main dams* in Morocco in past 30 years.......................................................8  \nFigure 11: Trend in Ag value added and rainfall 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