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Climate change, GERD adds to Egypt\u2019s water security challenges:<\/strong> Egypt\u2019s water security is now threatened by climate change, a growing population, and the imminent start of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)\u2019s reservoir filling this month, Aya Nader writes for Climate Change News<\/a>. \u201cThe challenges for farmers are myriad: new diseases and insects, unprecedented humidity, rising seas contaminating groundwater with salt,\u201d writes Nader. As for GERD, its effects are largely unknown yet. \u201cSome studies predict a rise in temperature and thus little rain, and others predict more rain,\u201d says Egyptian member of the tripartite committee on the dam\u2019s effects, Alaa Al Zawahri. The government is working towards improving water access in light of these difficulties by collaborating with five UN organizations on a development project that has provided 150k Minya residents with new filtration technology, according to News Ghana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Climate change, GERD adds to Egypt\u2019s water security challenges: Egypt\u2019s water security is now threatened by climate change, a growing population, and the imminent start of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)\u2019s reservoir filling this month, Aya Nader writes for Climate Change News. \u201cThe challenges for farmers are myriad: new diseases and insects, unprecedented humidity, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","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":[7233],"tags":[2386,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-645411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-egypt-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"367aa2c0-f122-4727-af86-19e73f313902","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"5601cb25-0482-434f-8d4e-3af35101d252","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[645388],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nEgypt\u2019s water security endangered by climate change, GERD filling - 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