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One
scenario set out by climatologists is that global warming in Egypt
could speed up the Nile river evaporation process and lead to a decline
in freshwater supplies, exacerbating the country’s acute shortage of
water for drinking, irrigation and hydro-electric generation.
Such
a scenario could also have serious socio-economic consequences, one of
which could be that Egypt might not be able to feed its 80 million
people.
However, experts offer conflicting projections and
remain uncertain whether climate change will have such a negative
impact on the Nile.
Specialists say Egypt is already facing
massive water management challenges due to demographic pressures and
rising demand for water and electricity, but it is not clear how
climate change will affect future Nile flows, and the key
vulnerabilities have yet to be assessed.
Nahla Abou El-Fotouh
of the Strategic Unit at the National Water Research Centre in Cairo
said scientific studies have shown conflicting climate change scenarios
for the future availability of Nile water as a result of global warming
and changes in the earth’s hydrological cycle. Read rest of story...
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