Water crisis threatens Egypt

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Feeder river of Egypt for millennia, the Nile could soon fail its 106 million inhabitants.

Threatened by climate change in the north, a subject of dispute with Ethiopia in the south, the second longest river in the world no longer provides Egyptians with sufficient water.

The President of the Republic Abdel Fattah al-Sissi himself announced at the beginning of 2022 that the water poverty line, set at 1000 cubic meters per year and per inhabitant, had been reached.

This would even already be around 500 cubic meters according to several sources.

However, the country is cruelly dependent on the Nile, which provides nearly 95% of its water reserves, both for agriculture and for the domestic needs of a constantly growing population.

To date, Egypt's water resources are stable at around 60 billion cubic meters per year, 55 of which come from the Nile and the rest from rainfall and underground reserves.

But the needs of the country...

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