ANALYSIS OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS OF NILE RIVER PROBLEM IN EGYPT | ||
| Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||
| Article 17, Volume 25, Issue 2, July 2011, Pages 17-28 PDF (717.3 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research articles. | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2011.195646 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The research uses the “SWOT Analysis” to identify the strengths, the weaknesses, the opportunities and the threats in order to achieve environmental, socioeconomic, and political sustainability of water in Egypt. The research was conducted on a number of groups that have a relationship with water, such as researchers in the field of water and agricultural, farmers and ordinary people from the community on the basis that the use of water is not exclusive to an individual or group. The total sample represented by 200 researched from the above-mentioned categories, it has been polling their opinion on the internal strengths and weaknesses to address the problem of water in Egypt, as well as the external opportunities and threats related to this issue, the most important results were as follows: - For the environmental sustainability: the main internal strength identified by the possibility of the use of modern irrigation systems in the desert and the external opportunity in the field of improvement irrigation and drainage. The weakness was recognize by the high levels of pollution and poor crop patterns, last the most important threat was the climate change and its negative impact on production and productivity. - For the economic sustainability: the most important strength identified by the presence of Egyptian Scientific Institutions specialized in water resources management, and the opportunity was the continued of World Bank support to the Nile Basin Initiative projects. While the weakness was represented by high costs of implementing the modern irrigation system and the most important threat was the rising of food prices at the global level. - For the social sustainability: the most important strengths recognized by the presence of a high qualified research staff, and the external opportunity was the training of the Nile river technician in the Egyptian training centers. While the most important external weakness was the fast increase of population, and the threat was characterized by the corrupt regimes dominate the Nile Basin countries. - For the political sustainability: the main strength identified by the excellence strategic status of Egypt at regional and African levels, while the opportunity was to intervene to address the conflicts and political conflicts between the Nile Basin countries. Although the main weakness was the poor Egyptian role in Africa in the last years and the most important threat was the Israel's presence in the Nile Basin countries. An action plan was set through the found results to deal with the problem of water in Egypt, which includes several mechanisms, either internally or externally, in order to achieve environmental, socioeconomic, and political sustainability of water in Egypt. | ||
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