Egyptian Minister of Water resources and Irrigation Hani Sewilam said on Saturday that the Baghdad international Water conference offers a vital platform to increase joint Arab efforts in addressing water scarcity, as the region tackle the dual pressures of weather trade and speedy population increase.
speaking on the 5th Baghdad global Water convention, Sewilam emphasised the function of present day technology in handling restricted water assets and strengthening regional water and environmental safety.
“This conference marks a leap forward in improving Arab cooperation on water management and enforcing revolutionary answers to tackle water shortage,” he said.
Sewilam stated that more than 60 percentage of the place’s freshwater originates from outside the Arab global—an external dependency he described as a serious danger to sustainable development. He harassed the need for more local coordination to cozy long-time period water resilience.
Highlighting broader developmental challenges, the minister referred to as for alternative strategies to water governance that respond to growing call for and the escalating impacts of climate exchange.
He additionally reaffirmed Egypt’s competition to the use of water as a tool of political coercion, voicing subject over the destruction of water infrastructure in Gaza for the duration of ongoing Zionist military operations. Such moves, he warned, pose a grave risk to the water security of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
