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Egypt's population has nearly quadrupled over the last 60 years while water<\/strong> scarcity continues to threaten the nation, <\/strong>the Washington Post<\/a> reports. Between 2014 and 2021, Egypt\u2019s birth rate has dropped 20% from 3.5 to 2.8 children per woman, WaPo reports citing CAPMAS<\/a> figures. The Egyptian government continues to push family planning \u2014 including with its \u201cTwo is Enough\u201d family planning program<\/a> \u2014 as the country nears \u201cabsolute water scarcity,\u201d according to a recent report<\/a> published by UNICEF and the American University in Cairo. To manage resource shortages, the country would need to reduce yearly births by over half \u2014 400k down from over 2 mn last year, the government has said \u2014 but over 1 mn babies were born in the past seven months alone, WaPo reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egypt's population has nearly quadrupled over the last 60 years while water scarcity continues to threaten the nation, the Washington Post reports. Between 2014 and 2021, Egypt\u2019s birth rate has dropped 20% from 3.5 to 2.8 children per woman, WaPo reports citing CAPMAS figures. The Egyptian government continues to push family planning \u2014 including with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[11,391,73,1219,177],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-74674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-your-way-out","tag-enterpriseclimate","tag-food-security","tag-on-your-way-out","tag-population-growth","tag-water-security","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"9c3d979a-29bc-4d0d-837d-7c5be5706833","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2021\/12\/191.jpg","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[74656],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nEgyptians need to have fewer babies to survive water \u2018absolute water scarcity\u2019 - Climate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/climate\/2022\/11\/07\/egyptians-need-to-have-fewer-babies-to-survive-water-absolute-water-scarcity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Egyptians need to have fewer babies to survive water \u2018absolute water scarcity\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Egypt's population has nearly quadrupled over the last 60 years while water scarcity continues to threaten the nation, the Washington Post reports. 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