The Campaign (Our water our life) is ringing a warning bell of water scarcity in Egypt

On Tuesday, Reform and Development Party (under construction) launched its public campaign to ensure water for the present and future under the slogan of (our water our life) in a move described by Water Research experts with vital to overcome the plight of the expected water shortage in 2015. The party had held a press conference in the club of the lawyers syndicate at Maadi, to declare the activities of the campaign on the Nile banks. The conference was attended by the Ugandan ambassador and Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Abu Zeid, the Secretary-General of the Egyptian Organization of Water Partnership, who announced full solidarity with the campaign.

Anwar Esmat Sadat, General Coordinator of the campaign stressed on the need to coordinate the roles and to concert efforts to tackle the crisis of water scarcity in Egypt, which may threaten the plans of future development, noting the importance to cooperate with governmental ministries and agencies concerned with water problems.

Marwan Younis as a coordinator of the Reform and Development Party, declared that the campaign must have a political role such as the draft law to regulate the use of water which the campaign had submitted to Dr. Fathi Sorour, President of the Parliament and Dr. Ahmed Nazif, the Prime Minister, in view of the need to get some legislation that contribute to reduce the problem.

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