Lack of water at the end of the canals Crisis facing farmers .. Learn the details
The irrigation network in the Republic is 33,000 km with the planting of about 9 million feddans. All the canals will operate at full capacity since June, and no more water can be pumped from the capacity of the canal.
Problems of water shortage at the end of the canals are caused by the misuse of farmers in the early stages of the canal due to the cultivation of water crops such as rice, which are individual and not public problems and are fined violators.
It is worth noting that our water resources are 60 billion cubic meters of river Nile, groundwater and seawater desalination, while the current water resources are 80 billion cubic meters, 64 billion agricultural water, 11.5 billion drinking water, 5 billion water industry, and thus a gap of 20 billion, Dammed by reuse of agricultural drainage water 13.50 billion cubic meters, groundwater in the valley and the Delta 6.50 billion cubic meters.
There are warnings of the increase in population and the need for increasing the quantities of drinking water and the expansion of the agricultural patch to bridge the food gap resulting from the increase in the population, and lack of awareness and sensitivity to the seriousness of the water problem of citizens, and abuses on waterways, along with the dumping of waste and garbage watercourses and their negative impact in The lack of access to water to the ends and the required amounts of excess water to solve the problem of water shortage endings, and not to expand the use of modern irrigation methods, and work to raise the efficiency of drinking water networks and their negative impact in the waste and waste water quantities of leakage Zaid about 30%.
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