water scarcity

The flaws of the Corridor of Development, a project initiated by scientist Farouk El-Baz to develop the Western Desert to…

Egypt has "no objection" to plans by certain countries of the

The Arab World, already experiencing severe water shortages, faces imminent water crisis. These alarming conclusions appeared in the latest Arab…

At a meeting with President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday, Burundian presidential adviser Mohammad Rokara said his country would never take…

Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa this week said that water scarcity did not represent "an urgent problem" for Egypt.

The following article is the first part of Al-Masry Al-Youm's weekly"Environmental Voices" series, in which issues related to the environment--whether…

London--Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns related to climate change pose a major threat to food security and economic growth, water experts…

President Hosni Mubarak has instructed the government to expand its seawater desalination initiatives and step up efforts to discover additional…

As concerns about access to water have grown, so have new understandings of how to legally address the issue. Some…

“Water,” goes the bromide, “is the new oil.” The apparent equivalence of the two resources--both are relatively scarce--masks a curious…