a verdant patch work. in these valleys subsistence farming predominates the village peasants take water directly from the streams to irrigate their land. today rich it is off to identify potential catchment areas to supply new cultivated plots he is joined by french engineers who offer project supports. a meal transports most of the equipment up to a canyon near the village. in winter the high atlas is often exposed to tarantula atlantic storms an enormous amount of water can fall in just a few hours. the ability of the soil and sparse vegetation can t hold the rapid runoff over time intensive erosion has carved deep canyons.
year to year. the atlas mountains on the rocco s water towers. like reka many worries originate on its steep slopes and flow towards the atlantic or the mediterranean. water is one of the primary factors limiting economic development. it is critical for agriculture which consumes eighty percent of the eventual resources but is also valuable for hydro electricity. rapid increase in boise demand combined with recurrent droughts means ever increasing pressure on this limited naturally cells. because of the distortions talking to rashied we realise that the proportion of water used by irrigated agriculture versus domestic use is pretty much the same here as it is lower down in the water channels ultimately a six hundred person village functions very similarly in terms of water management and used to an area of three hundred thousand or three million people it.