Water-scarce Egypt aims to more than quadruple desalination capacity by granting private companies concessions from its sovereign wealth fund to build 17 plants over the next five years with sustainable solar energy , Reuters reports.

The Bahr El-Baqar wastewater treatment plant, located in the northern governorate of Port Said, was inaugurated by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on 27 September 2021.

The Egyptian government plans to overhaul the hydropower stations of its dams in the southern Aswan governorate amid a dispute with Ethiopia over its megadam project on the Blue Nile, a main tributary of the Nile River.

Egypt is currently working on maximizing all its water resources to meet the growing domestic needs amid the stalled negotiations over a major dam.

The Egyptian government is building a large water treatment plant on the outskirts of Cairo to help address the country’s drinking water shortage.

The deadly heat waves, fires, hurricanes and other extreme weather events that have dominated headlines in recent years will only become more frequent in the coming decades, according to a United Nations report on climate change released last week.

Egypt and Sudan are currently exploring their options on how to deal with Ethiopia’s second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as a fait accompli.

The Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources announced that a strategy based on four points has been developed to resolve all water-related problems facing Egypt up until 2050.

Egypt is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world, Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel Aaty said on Wednesday.

Egypt could lose as much as 72 percent of its farmland when the latest phase of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is completed, according to a new study cited in the London-based Al Quds al-Arabi.