Water Provisions in Egypt

Thanks to the United Nations general assembly recognizing the need for clean water in Resolution 64/292, the states and international organizations have been called on to provide funding and resources to help developing countries provide safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water to all. This is a step in the right direction, seeing as women and children in some countries have to walk more than 30 minutes to collect water- if there is any water to collect at all.

There is a water crisis which faces many parts of the world and it is a threat to survival of human beings since humans are primarily dependent on water. Shortage in drinking water is beginning to show its effects in first world countries, but is a current major problem facing lesser developed countries which have not taken drastic steps to harvest water and purify it to make it safe for human consumption. In developed countries the population growth has strained available water resources and stretched the ability of governments and private firms to provide safe drinking water to the vast majority of the population. Seventy one percent of

Water, like food, is a necessity for human life that is used for many purposes such as agricultural, industrial, and domestic systems. While water is a common element around the world not all of it is clean and able to be consumed or used by humans. With only a percentage of the world’s water being clean and the use of water increasing, the availability of water around the world has become a common issue in the developing and even the developed world. This may be a smaller problem in areas close to clean water sources compared to areas far from a clean water source but, the availability of water is not strictly based on location, it also depends on the specific political and social needs and issues of the area as well. These all become issues that must be accounted for when deciphering whether water is a basic human right or a commodity and what action must be taken to aid the developing water systems in community’s that lack them.

Many people know that water is essential for human-being and it is not only valuable for health and life, but water is also important for industry and agriculture. Furthermore, use of water has a spiritual, cultural and recreational dimension. However, water resources are not infinite. Wide and inefficient use of water resources can lead to irreversible consequences, such as water shortage. This essay will firstly discuss the problem of water shortage on examples of developed and developing countries and include the diversification of the same issue in the different parts of the world. It will also identify causes and effects of this environmental problem on society and other spheres of life. Moreover, in this essay I am going to propose

Two out of every five people living in Sub-Saharan Africa lack safe water. A baby there is 500 times more likely to die from water-related illness than one from the United States. This is a serious ongoing issue that requires the rest of the world to take action. Water spreads diseases easily if the necessary precautions are not taken. Many developing African countries don’t have sewage treatment, or the people don’t have methods to filter and disinfect. Once a person is sick either there is no way to cure them, or medical care is too expensive, so they are left untreated with a high risk of death. Although many believe that the fight for sanitary water in Africa is insurmountable, people in these developing countries can overcome their challenge to access clean water and avoid water-borne diseases through proper sewage treatment facilities, universal water filtration and medical care.

Egypt faces a water crisis because the Nile river disappearing and it is how they farm and get water.“Egypt gets almost all of its water from the Nile. The quality of the river water is seriously threatened by untreated industrial and agricultural wastes, sewage, and municipal waste-water. In addition, the Aswan High Dam, which was completed in 1970, has reduced the flow of the Nile and trapped the nutrient in the soil,which is not good So if Egypt doesn't get some help from the other countries it will eventually cease to have life

The settlement of a town had to take two main considerations into mind, the accessibility to a water source and the height it was built above the flooding of the Nile. The mud-brick buildings were sensitive to water and damp conditions, so care had to be taken when considering the placement of a house, town or city. When houses did crumble or fall apart, new houses were simply built upon the ruins of the former house. This led to houses and towns being built on more elevated surfaces. These hills are called tells. The 'permanent' structures like temples and their surrounding enclosures are now on a lower floor level - this would be the original level as temples were not generally built or renewed upon each other as the houses were. This method of building one house upon the other continued until the building of the Aswan Dam in the late 1960's, making excavations of the housing areas was virtually impossible. This has left a scarcity of data for Egyptologists to study.

The drought of 4200 BC and the demise of the old kingdom happened in Ancient Egypt. The drought occurred during four different periods between 3,000 and 6,000 years ago causing many lives to be lost. This is the map of Ancient Egypt.( See Appendix A map) Ancient Egypt had a lot of cool like a drought, and how it happens, how it impacted this part of Ancient World then and now.

Ruth Demese Ancient Egypt is often revered as one of the most influential empires in the world. Ancient Egyptian civilization is one of the longest running societies in recorded history, and counterintuitively, this society came to fruition in “one of the largest arid desert areas in the world (Kemp 2006: 8).”. The initial success of a society is often determined by the resources made available to them, such as food and water, which emphasizes the importance for the Nile River, which ran through one of the driest desert regions. In fact, this climate is so inhospitable that it would have likely been impossible if not for the Nile River. Due to the vitality of the water on Egyptian civilization throughout time, climate, hydrological flux, and

Water is one very essential resource for human existence. It accounts for about two thirds of the earth surface with a volume of about 1.4 billion cubic centimeter. About 97 percent of the total earth’s water is salt water from the ocean with only a minute percentage existing as freshwater accessible for direct human consumption. Freshwater is found in lakes, rivers, reservoirs and underground sources some of which are shallow enough to be tapped at an affordable cost. The lack of portable drinking water needs not be overemphasized as more than 1.2 billion people in the world lack access to clean drinking water. Globally, there seems to be an increase in economic water scarcity in addition to the already existing physical water scarcity. The situation may get worse as the needs for water increases due to city development and population growth. The arid regions are the most affected with cases of droughts which may occur as a result of consistent lack of rainfall. One country that is grossly affected by lack of rainfall is Sudan with problems of available drinking water for its populace. The report will analyze the problem of fresh water supply to the Sudan and proffer two feasible solutions.

Water is the key to survival, it has very important role in living organisms. Life on earth will be impossible without it. Water is considered one of the most sensitive and important subjects in the Middle East, where increasing water deficiency and quality decline of the available water are forthcoming According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the first line of defense is protecting water supplies from contamination (Al-Khatlb et al., 2005).

Because of the Nile pollution crisis and its impact on drinking water, citizens are worried about the quality of their drinking water.

Incredible water shortage in the Middle East region has compelled countries to reuse this water for many purposes. Treated wastewater can be used in agriculture, industry, recharging aquifers (Middle East Water Shortage). This method leads to conservation of traditional sources of water which further can be used “for meeting the demand for higher-quality water such as that for drinking, or for high value-added industrial and agricultural uses.” Also the climate fickleness’ influence will lessen by means of reuse. But there are few problems connected with leading treatment into usage. One of them are health and environmental risks (Baroudy 2005, 25-35). Purified in such way water contains bacteria, viruses and parasites (Middle East Water Shortage). Use of treated water can cause different infectious and gastrointestinal diseases. According to Baroudy even contact with this water sometimes can cause allergies and other dermatological illnesses (2005, 25-35). Another problem is that this water has some biological and chemical matter dissolved in it, which can obstruct soil pores. Clogged soil has less ability for leaking which leads to bad irrigation efficiencies (Middle East Water Shortage). But, of course, some standards with the purpose to limit these effects were elaborated. Toughening standards require financial investments (Baroudy 2005, 25-35). Process of waste treatment requires special equipment and construction of special water treatment

Access to clean water is a basic human right and yet people around the world don’t have that right and they struggle to survive without it. The many uses of clean and potable water include water for drinking to cooking other daily purpose. It is reported that over 1.1 billion people lack access to an improved water resource and three million individuals, and majority of them children, suffer and die from water-related disease. The need to improve water quality and providing clean water should be major project for developed countries like the US and so called “well developed countries”.

It is estimated that approximately a little more than a sixth of the earth’s population has no access to fresh drinking water. This comes as a result of either poor physical or economical water scarcity. Physical water scarcity, as suggested by the name, occurs in dry, desert-like regions. Economical water scarcity, however forms because there is not sufficient investment in infrastructure in an area and as a result many civilians have trouble obtaining water for daily necessities. The similarity in both of these cases is that the technology built and implemented to source available water is not a) as efficient as it could be and b) as sustainable as it should be.