Egypts President Morsi sacks Field Marshal Tantawy and Sami Annan

I truly hope that you represent the majority, but i doubt it.

 

Thanks, I am assuming that people like you are the majority as well

 

All of that and the following :

Two missiles fron Egypt hit Eilat yesterday while a concert was on and 4000 people were attending... the police was forced to vacate the premises :

While in Egypt the following is happening...

Rural irrigation canals are afflicted by water shortages and contaminated
water
Steven Viney Egypt Independent Mon, 13/08/2012 - 12:24
http://www.egyptindependent.com/new...licted-water-shortages-and-contaminated-water

After a month of severe water cuts, with little to no water running through
the canals of Abu Sir and Saqqara, the water finally returned at the end of
last week.

However, while the water had been away, large quantities of garbage had
piled up in the canals, causing the canals to become even more blocked and
polluted than usual, leading to dead and dying crops and serious health
hazards.

Dumping garbage in the canals has long been commonplace due to the lack of
waste management facilities in the areas. Usually, the canal water would at
least push the garbage along a bit, but the severe cuts have allowed garbage
to accumulate in the canals.

Between water cuts, mounting garbage, and blocked irrigation the situation
is quickly becoming a very serious problem in Abu Sir and Saqqara, and these
areas are not alone.

“The ever-increasing challenges of access to water for farmers are not
unique to Abu Sir and Saqqara. It’s an epidemic that is affecting all of
Egypt’s countryside, and they require an immediate sustainable solution,”
says Ahmed El Droubi, the sustainable agriculture campaigner for the
Greenpeace Arab World project.

Egypt has long relied on a vast network of canals designed to bring water
from the Nile and expand arable land east and west into the desert.

Water shortages and dumping is not a new concern for Egypt’s canals.
However, in the past few months, the severity of the situation has
significantly increased, turning the canals into thick, barely moist,
garbage pits.

“For a couple of years the water in the canals had been cut alongside
increased garbage dumping, but lately there is something very wrong,” says
Hesham al-Seefy, a lawyer and lifetime resident of Abu Sir.

Seefy adds that five years ago it was possible to grow a variety of crops
with the canal water, but now only resilient crops can survive.

In recent weeks, large quantities of corn and mango, alongside others, had
become completely spoiled due to water shortages and polluted water. Crops
grown in the area usually supply Cairo markets.

Severe illnesses among locals are also increasing, as dangerous bacteria
grows and lives in the canals and the surrounding water supplies.

“People are continuing to get sick, and usually people don’t believe it’s
from unhealthy agricultural practices. The link is not drawn between the
two,” says Droubi.

However, it is still not clear exactly why the irrigation canals have been
experiencing significantly worse water shortages in recent months. Some
attribute the shortages to canal design.

“Each small canal has to pass through a series of villages, and because of
the water scare, everyone is taking more,” says Seefy. “So, by the time it
gets to the ends of the canals, it’s drained.”

Others say this is unlikely, as the canals have always been designed this
way, and attribute the dry canals to land reclamation in the desert.

“The large scale ‘land reclamation’ projects seem to be diverting water from
the arable land of the Nile valley and delta, defying the very purpose they
were developed for,” says Droubi.

But, whether or not the water is being cut, the significant increase in
garbage has caused them to remain blocked.

Residents and NGOs, such as the Egyptian Endurance Riding Association and El
Forsan, would usually try to independently deal with the mounting trash in
the canals. However, the job has recently become too big for their limited
resources.

“Farmers are now talking about selling their arable land to investors to
build on because it is becoming a huge risk to try and grow crops and make a
profit,” says Seefy.

To counter this, some farmers have resorted to recycling agricultural water,
or tapping into saline ground water near the surface. Repeated usage of
saline water can potentially render the arable land completely barren.

According to residents, the Ministries of Irrigation and Agriculture have
all been contacted, but they also appear to be lost on why the water has
diminished so severely.

“Whatever course of action is to be taken, these areas need immediate solid
waste management capabilities, and access to sufficient water, or else the
livelihoods of many people and the health of many more will be seriously
jeopardized,” says Droubi.

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IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il

 

American sponsored military dictatorship is still better than Muslim Brotherhood ruling the country. The very people America's sponsorship sought to quell. One step forward for civilian rule. Two steps back for civility.

 

It will be interesting to see if they can pay it back.

 

Reverse ditto

- I doubt whether Arab -hating extremists Jews + those who sympathise with them , forms a minority in Israel.





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Morsi purges the military again.

70 generals have been 'retired' and 6 SCAF members 'dismissed'.

 

President Morsi has now started purging the Governors of the Governerates

tomorrow 10 will wake up to no jobs

 

The International Bank says Mubarak $135 billion !!!

Egypt is suing British Government that has so far refused to return stolen assets looted by Mubarak and his mafia.

Suzanne Mubarak and the wife of ex housing Minister Meghrabi who is now in prison with his boss who has opened design company in London are being investigated for looting assets too.

One by one the Mubarak mafia will be hunted down and dealt with inshallah with or without the help of Mubaraks friends abroad.

 

Another of Mubaraks mafia Farouk Hosni who was his Culture Minister and as disliked as Zahi Hawass has been referred to the criminal court on charges of looting Egypt of 9 million pounds.

Before the revolution many Egyptians suspected Farouk Hosni was involved in the theft of the Van Gogh out of the museum.

One by one

Shafik is the next one we need extradited from Qatar !

 

General Prosecutor places travel ban on 3 Air Force Generals accused of being involved in corruption charges against Mubaraks sons and Ahmed Shafik.

Shafik left Egypt hours after Morsi won the election and is hiding out in the UAE and faces 32 charges of corruption and will be arrested if he tries to enter Egypt.

Morsi not messing about

 

Ahmed Nazif Mubaraks PM might get some more time added to his sentence in Tora.

Apparently the Museum of Antiquities is accusing him of illegally sending 180 Cleopatra artifacts to the USA to Rupert Murdochs private company!!!

Egyptian court has demanded return of the artifacts.

No doubt we will over the next 10 years have many cases exposed of corruption by Mubarak and his gang of thieves.