water scarcity

“Water,” goes the bromide, “is the new oil.” The apparent equivalence of the two resources--both are relatively scarce--masks a curious…

Water poverty and oil wealth are locked into a peculiar relationship in which the abundance of one resource can make…

Over the past 7000 years Egypt has never been so backwards as it is now, said Farouk el-Baz, director of…

"Fresh water, rare water" was the name of a conference held yesterday at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina under the auspices of…

A recent study conducted by the state-run Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) warned that Egypt's annual water…