Egypt Faces Water Deficiency, and Food Insufficiency

Changes in alluvial soil quality under long-term irrigation with two marginal water sources in an arid environment

“…In Egypt, the total cultivated area is 3.6 million ha, of which 89% are alluvial soils in the Nile Valley (43%) and Delta (65%) (Mohamed, 2019). However, water availability remains the major constraint for sustainable agricultural production (Zohry and Ouda, 2020). Egypt is one of the most arid regions of the world, where nearly 86% of its total land is hyper-arid and 14% is arid and semiarid (Embabi, 2020).…”