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Egypt's fresh water is mainly derived from underground water. Underground water results in 95% of Egyptian's desert land. Egypt is also dependent on rainwater but it is a scarce and limiting source for agricultural development. In addition, Egypt refuses agricultural drainage water in correlation with Nile water for irrigation. [2]
Tantawi submitted his formal request under parliamentary procedure to Ali Abdel Aal, Speaker of the House of Representatives, proposing that 12 parliamentary committees be created to "generate a national dialogue about the political, economic and social problems facing the country," to solve "the real crisis Egypt is living through, which ...
The motivation behind the 2020 protests are similar to that of the 2019 protests. Many Egyptians had been discontent towards the government because of police brutality [13] and the economic issues the country had been facing as a result of the 2016 austerity measures; [5] [9] in 2020, almost 70% of the Egyptian population lived under the poverty line. [5]
Egypt is considered a downstream country because the source of the Nile, and most of the water that contributes to it, comes from outside Egypt’s borders. [24] The Nile flows 4,100 miles beginning in Lake Victoria (located between Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya) and emptying into the Mediterranean sea forming the Nile Delta.
The 2013 Egyptian coup d'etat or The Counter-revolution [10] [11] is an event that took place on 3 July 2013. Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led a coalition to remove the democratically elected President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi from power and suspended the Egyptian constitution of 2012. [12]
9 Biggest Problems Facing Social Security in 2024. John Csiszar. December 28, 2023 at 9:00 AM. Fabio Camandona / iStock/Getty Images.
The Egyptian Crisis (Arabic: الأزمة المصرية, romanized: al-ʿazma al-Maṣriyya) was a period that started with the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and ended with the beginning of the presidency of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in 2014.
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