Egypt Needs More Drinkable Water – How Windy Coastal Resorts Could Help

Egypt is facing a growing water crisis due to its arid climate, limited water resources, and rapidly increasing population. The country of 114 million people depends heavily on the longest river in the world, the Nile, for fresh water. But rising demand for water in Egypt and from upstream users of the Nile’s water (like Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam) means the Nile is no longer enough.

Chemical engineer Thokozani Majozi was part of a team who built a model of a new wind-powered…