Egypt’s Irrigation Ministry strives to collect the maximum amount of groundwater by installing “auto-control” devices in more than 15 underground wells.

Egypt is reawakening a decades-old agricultural project in its Western Desert as it endeavors to feed its growing population and bridge a wide gap between food production and consumption in it.

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly stressed the need to urge citizens to rationalising water consumption.

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit the coast of Greece, Wednesday, that Cairo residents felt in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered against planting ornamental plants again in favor of using water resources for more crops.

While Egyptians were wowed by pictures of the rare snowfall in Alexandria which was described as “European weather”, the Senate in Cairo was discussing the impact of climate change following a request by Senator Walid El-Tamimi.

The Egyptian Minister of Irrigation, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, announced that Egypt is constructing important projects to protect the Nile Delta from sinking.

Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Aati said Egypt faces several water challenges topped by the unilateral filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), overpopulation, climate change as well as the limited water resources, a matter which required outlining necessary policies for an integrated management of water …

Reda Hassanein is counting his losses after a disappointing harvest season. The Egyptian farmer only collected six tonnes of olives from his 60-acre farm, located in a desert area between Egypt’s capital Cairo and the northeastern province of Ismailiya – a fraction of what he collected last year.

Egypt suffers from a water deficit of 90 per cent of its renewable resources, the Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Aty said yesterday.