MOROCCO-CLIMATE-AGRICULTURE-WEATHER-DROUGHT

A herd of sheep walk over cracked earth at al-Massira dam in Ouled Essi Masseoud village, some 140 kilometres (85 miles) south from Morocco's economic capital Casablanca, on August 8, 2022 amidst the country's worst drought in at least four decades. Residents of Morocco's Ouled Essi Masseoud village are suffering from a series of successive droughts, prompting them to rely solely on sporadic supplies in public fountains and from private wells. The situation is critical, given the village's position in the agricultural province of Settat, near the Oum Errabia river and al-Massira dam, Morocco's second largest. Its reservoir supplies drinking water to several cities, including the three million people who live in Casablanca. But latest official figures show it is now filling at a rate of just five percent. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP) (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)