Blame Those Ministers

Al-Masry Al Youm shocked the whole nation in the past 5 weeks when it revealed that there are huge masses of agricultural land that have been irrigated by sewage water for decades !!

And for the record this is not in one area or governorate only but in different areas and governorates for decades !! We have been eating fruits and vegetables irrigated by sewage water for decades and some people wonder why we have high rates of kidney failure patients in the country !!??

In any respectable country “ I believe you got bored from these words” , there should be an investigation in the ministries of agriculture and irrigation and this investigation should include all the ministers in those ministries who were and are in the office during that scandal , this is not something that happened yesterday !!

I do not know why when I began to follow this scandal ,the name of Youssef Wali pumped to my head before any other minister ,even before the ministers of water sources and irrigation who are directly responsible for this disaster !! May be because Youssef Wali served as the minister of agriculture more than any minister of agriculture and any minister of irrigation in the history of modern Egypt !!

This happens in the land of the Nile where we are facing currently a diplomatic crisis with the Nile basin country and the ghost of water scarcity after few years !!

How many Egyptian suffered and died from Kidney failure because of this ?? Do not we have enough children who are dying from cancer because of the carcinogenic pesticides and fertilizers the ministry of agriculture used to import for decades ??

To Whom have all those huge quantities of water gone ?? !!??

No wonder the agricultural land is diminishing in Egypt , there is no water for it !!

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