{"id":202349,"date":"2025-07-13T20:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-needs-more-drinkable-water-how-windy-coastal-resorts-could-help\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T20:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:41:51","slug":"egypt-needs-more-drinkable-water-how-windy-coastal-resorts-could-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-needs-more-drinkable-water-how-windy-coastal-resorts-could-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Needs More Drinkable Water &#8211; How Windy Coastal Resorts Could Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"67\">Egypt is facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/climate-diplomacy.org\/case-studies\/security-implications-growing-water-scarcity-egypt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">growing water crisis<\/a> due to its <a href=\"https:\/\/climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org\/country\/egypt\/climate-data-historical#:%7E:text=Egypt&#039;s%20climate%20is%20dry%2C%20hot,however%20sea%20breeze%20modulates%20moisture.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arid climate<\/a>, limited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwmi.org\/where-we-work\/egypt\/#:%7E:text=Egypt%20is%20one%20of%20the,build%20resilience%20to%20climate%20extremes.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">water resources<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/egyptianstreets.com\/2025\/05\/06\/egypts-race-against-time-averting-crisis-amidst-a-population-surge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rapidly increasing<\/a> population. The country of 114 million people depends heavily on the longest river in the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.org\/resource\/nile-river\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Nile<\/a>, for fresh water. But rising demand for water in Egypt and from upstream users of the Nile&#8217;s water (like Ethiopia&#8217;s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam) means the Nile is no longer enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"78\">Chemical engineer Thokozani Majozi was part of a team who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S036054422403072X\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">built a model<\/a> of a new wind-powered&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507100007.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s water (like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":202350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,13691,51858,4697,415,257,25576,254,6722,19317],"class_list":["post-202349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coastal","tag-drinkable","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-resorts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-water","tag-windy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}