The World celebrated yesterday the World Water Day in time where many people in the world can’t find a single clean drop of water.
This year Egypt is celebrating the jubilee of inauguration of the Aswan high dam construction and one of the high dam’s great pros is providing a constant water source for Egypt which unfortunately is being misused by the Egyptian regime in the last 30 year. Only now the Egyptian regime started to understand the challenge it faces , still despite its diplomatic efforts to save Egypt’s share from the Nile , it has not preserved the Nile inside Egypt nor the rights of the Egyptian people in the Nile. Up till now there are areas with no clean water access , in fact there are areas with no water access thanks to the corruption in the country. In summer Egyptian villages in Delta suffer from water shortages because all water sources are allocated to the rich summer resorts in North Coast. From time to time we read about people getting diseases from the kind of kidney failure because of polluted water and also poor old infrastructure. Of course we should not forget that the Nile itself is being abused by the industrial wastes too !! God gave us a gift from Nile and not only the regime but also the people are abusing it by our silence and sometimes our participation in the crimes against the Nile.
This photo below was included in the Big Photo blog and it made so happy , it is for section of lake Nasser from NASA , yes a section you can imagine how big lake Nasser is.
I hope that we all stop wasting water which one day will become more valuable than oil and gold.
I live on the shores of Lake Victoria and could see the water from my windows. However, I pay the equivalent of 2 Egyptian Pounds for every cubic meter I consume. Even then, the water that comes into my tap is not safe for drinking and we have to boil it. Now compare sour medicine that the poor Africans around the Great Lakes swallow, with the pampering that my compatriots in Egypt receive. There is no way out of Egypt's illusion other than for its people to wake-up to the harsh realities of life. I cannot blame any Egyptian government for this - just let someone speak of increasing the cost of water, and see how soon he will dumped by popular demand! It is the ruled not the rulers who are to blame.
ReplyDeleteAnd once more you mention the Aswan Dam's advantages without referring back to the sacrifices, injustices and inequity the Sudanese suffered in order for its benefits to rest...with the Egyptians!
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