Egypt suffers from water scarcity, aims to make up for shortage through wastewater treatment

In a meeting with the Senate's Irrigation and Water Resources Committee Tuesday, Minister Hani Sweilam showcased that overpopulation coupled with the steadiness of water resources incurred that the individual's water share became 560 cubic meters per annum, which is below the water scarcity line by 44 percent.

On that front, the minister of irrigation presented the measures taken to handle the crisis. One is the lining of canals with total lengths of 20,000 km at a cost of L.E. 80 billion by mid-2024, as per the instructions of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.