Egypt
Abu Dhabi bets on anti-dust solar panelsSCIDEV.NET | 05 Mar 2012[CAIRO] Abu Dhabi is teaming up with a global electronics company to develop better coatings for solar panels to make them cheaper and easier to keep clean in desert conditions.The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region stands to benefit from concentrated solar power (CSP) — a technology that uses lenses or mirrors to focus large amounts of sunlight onto a small area. This light is converted to heat, which generates electricity.
Egypt | Renewable Energy EGYPT: Major headaches for water plannersIRIN News | 18 Oct 2011SHARQIA 18 October 2011 (IRIN) - Leaking water pipes, evaporation and a rapidly growing population may be significant concerns for those trying to manage and plan water supplies in Egypt, but compounding such problems - and forcing Egyptians to rethink how they use water - is the threat posed by downstream countries which also want to take more water from the Nile, say observers.
Egypt | Climate Variability | Freshwater EGYPT: Cairo residents grapple with food shortages, security threatsIRIN News | 03 Feb 2011It is 6.00am and Rida Mansur feels she is running late. The 57-year-old mother of five has to get to the vegetable market early to buy food for her family before things run out. But she was not lucky today: All she could get were a few expensive tomatoes and cucumbers. Mansurs problems are compounded by the night-time curfews which began on 28 January and which restrict consumers options in terms of when they can shop, and make it hard for farmers to get their produce to market.
Egypt | Access to Information | Agriculture | Food Security Cairo upgrades battered taxis, cleans up imageReuters | 19 Jan 2011Grimy old Fiats and Ladas have long been a defining feature of Cairo's creaking taxi fleet, clogging the city's streets and sputtering out fumes. Now the scruffy black-and-white cabs are giving way to metered, air-conditioned cars assembled in Egypt using kits from firms like General Motors, Hyundai of South Korea and China's Chery. Taxis under the French brand Peugeot originate from factories in Iran.
Egypt | Air Pollution | Transport EGYPT: Shark Attacks Bite TourismInter Press Service | 06 Jan 2011The beaches of Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Sharm al-Sheikh are tentatively back to normal after having recently been the site of five separate shark attacks, one of which proved fatal. While the phenomenon's precise cause remains undetermined, local experts fear that the spate of attacks could have dire consequences for Egypt's vital tourism industry - especially in the event of another incident.
Egypt | Economics and the Environment | Tourism and Biodiversity Israel Now Builds Separation Wall With Africaips.org | 16 Dec 2010After the separation barrier against Palestinian territories, Israel has begun to build a new wall, this one to keep migrants from Africa out. The Israeli government approved plans late last month to build a detention camp near its border with Egypt to house illegal African immigrants. Local...
Egypt | Environmental Awareness Egypt: Fooling Fish to Grow and MultiplyInter Press Service | 18 Nov 2010Surrounded by glass jugs and beakers full of bubbling green slime, Mohamed Ashour appears to be experimenting with a new formula for pea soup. As part of his daily rounds, the Egyptian researcher checks the valves on the tubing connecting each vessel, ensuring their verdant-hued contents are adequately aerated.
Egypt | Biotechnology | Fish Farming Finding More Fish, Between Egypt and Vietnamips.org | 29 Oct 2010CAIRO – Combine the experience of Africas leading freshwater fish producer with that of one of Asias fastest-growing mariculture sectors. Fisheries experts in Egypt and Vietnam hope it will lead to a robust aquaculture industry that utilises both river and sea to feed growing populations and generate export revenues.
Egypt | Fisheries Poor Thirst as Nile Taps Run DryInter Press Service | 06 Sep 2010The midday sun punishes a group of veiled women as they wait in line to fill their buckets and jerrycans. They have travelled on foot to a rusty tap on the outskirts of Cairo that gushes irrigation water never intended for human consumption.
Egypt | Access to Freshwater | Drought Egypt: Fishing in the SewerAllAfrica.com | 31 Dec 2009After four hours on the Nile in a rowboat with his two sons, fisher Hussein Abdel Malek tallies the morning catch: a plastic water bottle, an empty juice box, a half dozen plastic bags and two small tilapia.
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