{"id":13350,"date":"2018-06-05T00:16:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=13350"},"modified":"2018-06-05T00:16:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T22:16:07","slug":"polluted-drinking-water-rise-about-50-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=13350","title":{"rendered":"Polluted Drinking Water Rise About 50% in Egypt !"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a bit to comply with Egypt\u2019s economic reform program in November 2016, the Egyptian government has raised the price of piped drinking water up to 46.5% for consumers of all consumption tier. This is according to Egyptian Streets..<\/em><\/p>\n

The decision, which was signed off by Egypt\u2019s Prime Minister Sherif Ismail on Saturday, was reported by the Official Gazette. The decision also included a hike in the sewage treatment fees to 12%.<\/p>\n

For residential use, the prices will range between LE0.65 to LE2.25 per cubic meter and\u00a0for commercial use, prices will range from LE3 to LE10, depending on industry and consumption levels.<\/p>\n

In April,<\/a>\u00a0Egypt\u2019s Minister of Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Atty said that Egypt suffers a shortage of water that reaches 54 billion cubic meters, and it needs a total of 114 billion cubic meters in order to cover its needs from water for agricultural, industrial and households needs.<\/p>\n

Additionally, highlighting the looming problem of future water scarcity in Egypt, a report\u00a0published by the BBC<\/a>\u00a0suggested that Egypt\u2019s capital of Cairo is most likely to run out of water due to the untreated\u00a0agricultural and residential waste.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the same context, Cairo is among 11 cities across the world that are most likely to run out of drinking water due to untreated agricultural and residential waste, according to a BBC report published on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Citing the World Health Organization (WHO), figures\u00a0show that Egypt ranks high among lower middle-income countries in\u00a0the number of deaths related to water pollution. The UN estimates critical shortages in the country by 2025, the BBC report said.<\/em><\/p>\n

In March 2017, Egypt\u2019s Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly said that the country had entered the water\u00a0poverty phase, and that the annual amount of water supply per person had fallen to 700 cubic meters, compared to the global average of 1,000 cubic meters.<\/em><\/p>\n

He added that the desalination of seawater\u00a0is currently a very high priority for Egypt.<\/em><\/p>\n

As the population continues to increase and drinking water resources remain traditionally fixed, it is expected that water availability per capita will steadily decrease.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no longer any room but to go ahead, and very quickly, with desalinating sea water, and to make it a strategic choice for our national security at this stage,\u201d Madbouly said in March, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Egypt is in the process of\u00a0constructing\u00a0the largest seawater desalination plant in the world, located in the Suez Governorate\u2019s coastal city of Ain Sokhna. Once completed,\u00a0the plant is expected to\u00a0have the capacity to purify 164,000 cubic meters of seawater each day.<\/em><\/p>\n

In January,\u00a0President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi vowed to protect Egypt\u2019s share of the Nile water and capitalize on its usage.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our country,\u201d Sisi said, \u201cand water for agriculture and drinking must be secured for citizens from Aswan to Alexandria, so that no problem will occur later, and we [don\u2019t] say that we are not ready for it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEgypt is currently carrying out the [world\u2019s] biggest water treatment and desalination project, in case of any circumstances concerning the sharing of water,\u201d \u2028said Sisi, according to Al-Ahram, referring to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) crisis, which could potentially threaten Egypt\u2019s share of Nile water.<\/em><\/p>\n

The water treatment and desalination project will cost LE70 billion, announced Sisi.<\/em><\/p>\n

The BBC report, meanwhile, also lists major cities most likely to face the threat of running out of drinking water. The list includes South Africa\u2019s Cape Town, India\u2019s Bangalore, China\u2019s Beijing, Russian capital Moscow, Turkish city Istanbul, the Indonesian capital Jakarta, London, and Tokyo.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to UN projections, global demand for fresh water will exceed supply by 40 percent in 2030.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOver one billion people lack access to water and another 2.7 billion find it scarce for at least one month of the year. A 2014 survey of the world\u2019s 500 largest cities estimates that one in four are in a situation of \u201cwater stress,\u201d the BBC report says.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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