I believe you should know about that project, as actually it was financed
by Japan (the EIA I mean). The project itself is being financed by
Kuwait. Irrespective of the strongly negative EIA.
This project is a disaster, not only environmentally, but socially,
economically as well as politically.
I have enough documentation that suggest this project only aim is to
deliver Nile water to Israel, as President Sadat promised. This
unfortunately does not take into consideration the interests of the other
Nile riparian countries and will most probably, as both Sadat and Boutros
Boutros Ghali accurately predicted, lead to war between Egypt and Sudan
and/or Ethiopia. Above all it does not take in consideration the scarcity
of water in Egypt itself.
As the Egyptian government did not release the EIA, and consequently the
World Bank did not (as its 'protocols' mandate that it cannot release any
information not released by the concerned country), I shall be glad to
photocopy and send the 'draft copy' I have to any interested organization
just for the fees of photocopying, laminating and mailing (around $60 if
sent by ordinary mail the last time I did this).
Please read the executive summary. If you like it (it includes the actual
number of pages of the original EIA and its appendices), please contact me.
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Dr. Nabil M. El-Khodary
Member, International Water Resources Association, USA
Ex-member, Association for Health and Environmental Development, Egypt
"Living is discovering our intellectual capacity and using it.
Discovering our creative talents and using them. Discovering we
do not have to be passive victims of circumstance, that we can
do something about our situation, change it... THAT IS LIVING."
Frank Judd
Director, OXFAM
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