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This comparison, composed by two images acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 A and Sentinel-2B satellites on 9 November 2019 (left) and 3 November 2020 (right), allows to observe the reduction in water storage of the Abdelmoumen dam.

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English: After multiple heatwaves and a severe drought, Morocco is struggling to meet its water needs.

The country’s average dam filling rates have steadily declined due to low rainfall levels since 2015 and the Abdelmoumen dam, a key source of water in Morocco’s Souss-Massa region, appears to be drying up.

The Abdelmoumen dam has a capacity of 198.4 million cubic meters (Mm3), but at the end of October 2019 the dam fill rate was 16.4% (or 32.5 Mm3) and at the end of October 2020 it stood at only 1.2% (or 2.3 Mm3 ) of its total capacity.

This comparison, composed by two images acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 A and Sentinel-2B satellites on 9 November 2019 (left) and 3 November 2020 (right), allows to observe the reduction in water storage of the Abdelmoumen dam.

In addition to the use of data derived from the satellites of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, drought monitoring can be carried out with data obtained from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. Its RADAR data, immune to cloud cover, are particularly suitable for describing dynamics between the dry and wet seasons.
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Source https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/drought-morocco
Author European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

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