hammam

A warm Turkish Hammam Table gives visitors a place to stretch and lounge opposite a wall-sized fountain.

A warm Turkish Hammam Table allows visitors a place to stretch and lounge opposite a wall-sized fountain.

She warned that hammam closures would “increase the fragility and suffering of this class, whose monthly income does not exceed 2,000 or 3,000 dirhams at best.”

Hammam workers make an amount equivalent to $200 to $300.

The closures affect the roughly 200,000 people directly or indirectly employed in the hammam sector, which accounts for roughly 2% of the country’s total water consumption, according to Morocco’s national statistics agency.