For residents of Cairo's poor neighborhoods, only rarely arrived through the water pipes of the Government. In order to cook and stay hydrated, Hossam Abdel Razaq said people, housewives who travel to the local water agency and bought precious liquid for 25 cents. When water flows for a short while, he added, the children ran to the faucets for drinking.
Thanks to the increase in population, climate change, infrastructure is poor and inefficient use of resources, serious water shortages that threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions of people all over the Middle East.
In Egypt, Government statistics show the country that uses 55 billion cubic meters of water per year, 87 percent of which comes from the River Nile. But the conflict with neighboring States upriver, however, is creating tension and could worsen the crisis. The Government in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and southern Sudan are of the opinion that they should get a share of the water of the Nile, but Egypt and Sudan insisted that British colonial agreement gives them the right to use the most water of the Nile.
Omar Ashour, who teaches political science at the University of Exeter, Uk, saying Egypt was paying the price for years of neglect the southern neighbor. Read more …
Hamas has established forward bases and rocket production facilities in the Sinai Peninsula, according to The Jerusalem Post military veterans affairs correspondent Yaakov Katz.