An Egyptian female engineer has devised a small unit for treating agricultural wastewater and recycling it for irrigation, which may help mitigate the country's perennial water shortage.
According to a report published by the United Nations on May 4, Sarah Abdelkader, an environmental health PhD student at the Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology of the American University of Cairo, won the prestigious L'Oréal-UNESCO Young Talented Scientist award for her research.