Arab FinanceExperts and specialists in water technology and new and renewable energy called for the necessity of linking scientific research in Egypt to practical reality, pointing out that there are challenges facing the uses of New and renewable energies Most notably inflation and high costs.
He added the participants in the third annual international symposium on sustainable agriculture and water solutions that he organized Center of Excellence for Agriculture and Water at the American University in Cairo Headed by Dr. Essam Shaaban, it is necessary to maximize the efficiency of irrigation systems in Egypt while moving away from traditional energy uses and moving towards solar energy.
Members of the Egyptian universities partnering with the project participated in the symposium: the University of Alexandria, Cairo, Assiut, Aswan, Beni Suef, Zagazig, Banha, Ain Shams, and the Suez Canal. As for the center’s American partners, the event witnessed the presence of representatives of universities: Utah State, Washington State, Temple University, the University of California at Davis, Riverside, and Santa Cruz.
The symposium highlighted research results and contributions of leading researchers and engineers in four main areas in the agriculture and water sectors: water use efficiency in agriculture and smart irrigation in Egypt, non-conventional water resources, safe treated wastewater and water footprint, and integrated water resources management.
The necessity of applying scientific research on the ground
For his part, Dr. Mufarreh Milad, Director of Quality and Accreditation at the Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, and Professor of New and Renewable Energy at the University, said in exclusive statements to “Arab Fines” that it is necessary to move towards new and renewable energies, especially with the global trend towards and encouraging these energies, as there are many incentives to use this type of energy. Energy.
He explained that Egypt is currently moving towards investing in the fields of green hydrogen, which are promising investments, calling for the necessity of adopting pioneering scientific research by investors to implement scientific research on the ground.
Orientation towards new and renewable energies
Atef Nassar, advisor to the Minister of Irrigation for the development of irrigation and modern irrigation, said that the Ministry is cooperating with the University of Washington in America in the field of smart irrigation to maximize the efficiency of the irrigation system and water use, noting that the Ministry is moving towards the uses of solar energy while moving away from traditional energy such as diesel and electricity.
Nassar added that the state must support scientific research with everything it has, pointing out that the results of scientific research are a moral responsibility that falls on the researcher and that this scientific research must be applied on the ground, pointing out that many times it is much easier to convince farmers to develop than to convince those who take it. decision, whose decisions may hinder modern irrigation systems.
For her part, Dr. Hoda Sousa, Professor of Water Resources Engineering at Ain Shams University, said that 80% of the desalination plants used in Egypt are imported from abroad, and the proportion of the local product must be increased compared to the imported one.
Challenges of inflation and rising costs face the uses of desalination technology
Sousa, who is also director of the Water Research Center of Excellence at the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, explained that all coastal areas in Egypt depend on desalinated water, especially with the effects of building the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the search for alternative solutions to the water deficit, noting that there are a number of challenges facing the construction of desalination plants. Seawater and its technologies include the challenges of high cost, high prices of imported equipment, inflation, and the exchange rate.
For his part, Dr. Hassanein Al-Mamlouk, General Manager of the Integrated Environmental Technology and Petroleum Services Company (ETOS), called for the necessity of recycling the water used in industry, especially industries that consume water intensively, such as the textile and paper industries, pointing out that we in Egypt use about 5.4 billion cubic meters of water annually and it should be Motivating and encouraging investors to invest in new and renewable energy fields. He continued: The more we reuse water allocated for industry, the more this will save water used for other purposes.
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