Egypt officially enters state of water poverty
Egypt announced that it has entered the stage of water poverty, while talks on Ethiopia’s Nile dam continue to stall.
![Egyptian women line up at a water cistern (unseen) to fill their containers with clean water at al-Rahawe village, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of Cairo, Egypt, May 27, 2010.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/2022-01/GettyImages-101557129.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=EIj88nvp)
CAIRO — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has recently revealed that his country has reached the stage of water poverty with less than 500 cubic meters of water per capita a year.
Speaking to foreign reporters on the sidelines of the World Youth Forum’s fourth edition in Sharm el-Sheikh on Jan. 13, Sisi noted that the global water level is set at 1,000 cubic meters per capita a year.