Arab Finance: Egypt was elected head of the Executive Office of the Arab Ministerial Water Council for the years 2024 and 2025, within the framework of the participation of Dr. Hani Sweilem, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, in the meetings of the sixteenth session of the Arab Ministerial Council of Water Ministers, according to what was stated. statement cabinet.
The ministerial meeting was preceded by the meetings of the Technical Scientific Advisory Committee of the Arab Ministerial Water Council in Jordan, whose work extended over a period of three days and discussed the action plan for the Arab water security strategy, cooperation in the field of exploitation of shared waters, and follow-up on the implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Plan with regard to water, in addition to To the Arab Initiative for the Interconnection between Water, Energy and Food in the Arab Countries.
His Excellency pointed out that most Arab countries are located in dry and semi-arid climatic regions, making them among the countries in the world most facing water scarcity and the decline in the per capita share of water, which requires strengthening the measures taken by Arab countries to deal with this challenge, which becomes more influential over time due to The increase in population and the expansion of urban development in the Arab countries, and climate changes that negatively affect the water sector in the Arab countries.
Dr. Sweilem stressed Egypt’s keenness to enhance cooperation with many sisterly Arab countries in the field of water, as Egypt is already cooperating with many Arab countries under the umbrella of a number of cooperation memorandums in the field of water, such as the countries of (Jordan – UAE – Algeria – Saudi Arabia – Iraq – Tunisia – Palestine – Lebanon – Morocco).
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