Minister of Irrigation, Nile River "Holy of holies"…The encroachments threaten the lives of 50 million citizens in the Delta
Dr. Hani Sweilem, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, stressed that the media has a very important role in important issues and clarifying the truth to citizens, especially with regard to water issues, which are a national issue. He pointed out that the media must be accurate in what is conveyed to public opinion, especially in light of the sensitive conditions that the water issue is going through, coinciding with the crisis of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the flood caused by the Ale Valley, submerging some areas in some areas. Governorates.
Sweilem revealed that the houses and lands damaged as a result of the rise in the Nile level are all lands that fall within the framework of the Nile River sanctuary legally, and represent encroachments on state lands, stressing that they were not flooded, but were replaced by water, as happens every year, which is a natural and recurring matter.
He explained that these encroachments on the Nile River sanctuary harm approximately 50 million citizens living in the delta, because He puts my ministry and the officials in a dilemma between protecting these violations and transgressions or protecting the citizens because it delays or prevents water from reaching them in the Delta because of these buildings, pointing out that flooding these violating buildings is the responsibility of their owners and not the responsibility of the ministry or the state, as some media outlets reported, and made the mistake happen to us.
The Minister of Irrigation confirmed that the Nile River " Holy of Holies " It is not permissible to trespass on it. The problem of trespasses has become a huge problem that must be confronted forcefully, to protect the citizens of the Delta.
Swilam called on the media to go to the experts and leaders of the ministry to obtain the correct information and not to rely on what they were called " Facebook experts " , explaining that what was published by the media about what happened in the Delta was due to the encroachment on one of the creeks in the Rashid sector and the establishment of an unofficial road by citizens, which led to the impoundment of water, which caused the Nile level to rise within its course due to suffocation and submergence of the Nile drainage lands that are within the river sector.
This came during the prize-giving session of the " competition. On the cod " It was held as part of the activities of the last days of the eighth Cairo Water Week, in the presence of a number of senior journalists, media professionals, and editors-in-chief of Egyptian newspapers, led by journalist Sanaa Mansour, journalist Rami Radwan, journalist Osama Mounir, and journalist Essam Youssef.
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