Items related to water scarcity

Louise Sarant 26 Feb 2013
Climate change, a fast growing population, ill-designed infrastructure, high levels of pollution and lack of law...
Megan Detrie 26 Jun 2012
Desalinated water could offer Egypt a secure source of potable water, as concerns over future access to water increase...
Egyptian farmland
Megan Detrie 20 Apr 2012
As traditional agricultural lands dwindle, experts look to make desert farming more sustainable. Government projects to...
 
A picture taken on March 12, 2012 shows a sculpture representing the logo of the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille
James Purtill 14 Mar 2012
“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” Water shortages are in the news as an international...
Andre Fecteau 22 Feb 2012
Ask about ideas of progress in Egypt and you’ll commonly hear: malls and villas away from downtown Cairo,...
File photo of Mansour Amer, chairman of Amer Group company, during an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm, 30 May, 2011.
Louise Sarant 25 Jun 2011
The flaws of the Corridor of Development, a project initiated by scientist Farouk El-Baz to develop the Western Desert...
The High Dam in Aswan,Which was constructed in the era of president Gamal Abdel-Nasser with assistance of Soviet experts and its cost was about one billion US dollars ,Completion of construction was in 1971
Metwali Salem 26 Dec 2010
Egypt has "no objection" to plans by certain countries of the Nile Basin to build dams on the river for...
Nile water. South of Aswan
Louise Sarant 30 Nov 2010
The Arab World, already experiencing severe water shortages, faces imminent water crisis. These alarming conclusions...
MENA 14 Nov 2010
At a meeting with President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday, Burundian presidential adviser Mohammad Rokara said his country...
Secretary general of Arabe league Amr Moussa
Nagy Abdel Aziz 27 Oct 2010
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa this week said that water scarcity did not represent "an urgent problem...