The United Nations (UN) has already warned that one in four of the world's inhabitants has no access to water, which is a serious global setback. This is also at a time when climate change is warming the planet enormously and putting many countries already struggling with water supply problems, especially in Africa, in check. The Moroccan kingdom has set up a plan worth millions to combat the drought that is ravaging the nation and which is expected to continue to hit hard because the summer months are approaching and little rainfall is expected, as well as high temperatures, which will surely aggravate the situation. It is time to propose urgent and efficient measures to tackle this problem and avoid shortages of this vital element for the daily life of citizens and for the development of agricultural activity, which is of great importance to the economy of the North African country. The level of Moroccan reservoirs stands at 24% and water is scarce. In areas with geothermal power production, drilling is usually in the 1 to 3 km depth range for western United States.Morocco is suffering the worst drought in 30 years. The oil and gas industry has drilled into sedimentary rock as deep as 26,000 (ft) or 8 km in West Texas, yet more typical oil and gas drilling is 4,000 to 10,000 ft (1.2 to 3 km) depending on the depth to the resource. Most of the measured temperatures used in the calculations are from sedimentary rocks which overlie the harder basement rock. SMU Geothermal Lab calculates temperatures at specific depth intervals using these variables to produce the temperature maps at different depth slices for the United States. In addition, the thermal conductance of the rocks (changing as the rock minerals change with deeper depths), the area heat flow, and the rock density (sedimentary rocks are less dense than basement rocks) are used to calculate the deeper temperatures. The SMU temperature-at-depth maps start from the actual temperature measured in the Earth at as many sites as possible.
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