{"id":245203,"date":"2026-09-22T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-water-policy-waste-at-home-coercion-on-ethiopia\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:30:07","slug":"egypts-water-policy-waste-at-home-coercion-on-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-water-policy-waste-at-home-coercion-on-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s Water Policy &#8211; Waste At Home, Coercion On Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Egypt stands out for its chronic mismanagement of water resources, despite contributing virtually nothing to the flow of the Abay (Nile)&#8211;a striking paradox at the heart of the Nile debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">For many hydropower analysts and transboundary water experts, water stored in Egypt&#8217;s downstream reservoirs suffers from high rates of evaporation due to the country&#8217;s hot desert climate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">For Fekahmed Negash, Chairperson of the Advisory Team on Transboundary Water and GERD at Ethiopia&#8217;s Ministry of Water and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609220290.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 stands out for its chronic mismanagement of water resources, despite contributing virtually nothing to the flow of the Abay (Nile)&#8211;a striking paradox at the heart of the Nile debate. For many hydropower analysts and transboundary water experts, water stored in Egypt&#8217;s downstream reservoirs suffers from high rates of evaporation due to the country&#8217;s hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":245204,"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":[258,256,50510,415,6989,4716,8849,257,6470,254,11569,6722],"class_list":["post-245203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coercion","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-ethiopia","tag-home","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-waste","tag-water"],"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\/245203","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=245203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}