Worldwide, water resources problems will be one of the most significant economic and social issues of the century. As there are limited water resources due to its fixed share of the Nile water, Egypt is one of the countries that will face great challenges, and limitation of groundwater, ...
Although the strategic importance of fresh water resources management is recognized in every scientific, social, or political agenda, issues concerning water quality protection seem to be a severe threat and challenge facing the Government of Egypt. The severity of water quality problems in Egypt ...
For millennia the Nile supplied Egypt with more water than needed. As the population grew and the economy expanded, demand on water increased accordingly. Here, we present a comprehensive analysis to reconstruct how total demand on water outstripped supply of the Nile water in the late 1970s, ...
However, Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia have been in talks for years over the technical and legal issues related to the filling and operation of the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the shared Nile River. Ethiopia, which started building the GERD in 2011, expects to produce more...
Egypt is unique among the nations of the world due to its extraordinary dependence upon a single water source, the Nile River (Figure 1), which is the longest river in the world. For more than 5,000 years, Egyptians have been managing Nile water for irrigation through a 被引量: 9 收藏...
Egypt's first Cairo Water Week (CWW) kicked off on Sunday under the auspices of President Sisi, aiming at increasing the public awareness of water rationalization for the sustainable development amid state of water shortage. The four-day CWW is being held in cooperation with the European Union ...
Water issues in many river basins associated with droughts, water over-exploitation and pollution are increasingly being driven by remote pressures through intensified virtual water (VW) flows. However, little attention has been paid to ... P Wu,L Zhuo,G Zhang,... - 《Hydrology & Earth System...
2021). An example of the old–new conflicts over water resources is that amongst Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt, which share the Nile River waters in the African continent. Conflict amongst the three countries has been escalating recently, especially after Ethiopia had completed construction of the ...
Mohamed Abdel Aty, Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, pointed out the ponderance of these issues, especially for water protection. "By 2020, the whole world would use renewed water," Mohamed stressed. "However, ground water in Egypt is still not renewed, and hot waves as we...
Despite Iran’s longstanding reputation for sustainable water management, the country currently faces mounting water-related challenges caused by population growth, industrial development, urban sprawl, lifestyle changes, climate change, territorial conf