Morocco spent most of the last decade drying out. Between 2019 and 2024, the country recorded six consecutive years of below-average rainfall, the longest on record. The 2023-24 hydrological year was the driest in more than six decades, with a national total of just 106.4 mm.
But this was not simply another dry spell. The problem went far beyond rainfall. The squeeze was structural as much as meteorological: per-capita renewable water availability has fallen to about 620 cubic metres a year, exacerbating water stress, while three decades of overuse significantly reduced water levels in several aquifers. Nothing about the autumn of 2025 suggested that was about to change.
