In a statement to MAP, Skalli said the most immediate needs are combined with the need to deploy a long-term vision that mobilizes considerable projects and resources, but also requires the responsibility and involvement of all and at all times.

The professor-researcher recalled that all great civilizations were first based on the way of managing water and agricultural resources, adding that "in the Royal speech, industrial and technological dimensions are at the service of these two imperatives (water and agriculture) which are at the heart of an integrated development and an essential ecological vision."

"This vision of Morocco as a contemporary civilization calls on citizens - from civil society and institutional actors - to fully assume their freedom of initiative but also their ethical, or simply legal, responsibility in promoting this momentum," he stressed.