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Up until 2018, the Egyptian government had been giving little attention to solid waste management, public health and environmental protection. Instead of establishing a unified governmental force to improve the waste management process, authority was dispersed among ministries. [8] Also the Egyptian legislation lacked efficiency.
In 2017, the European Union and Egypt finalized plans for environmental and other projects valued at 600 million Euros. [ 5 ] In late 2017, the Ministry announced they had seen a reduction of 13-15% in the burning of rice by rice farmers, a practice that causes a black toxic cloud.
Environmental Management and Co-ordination (Waste Management) Regulations 2006; Environmental Management and Co-ordination (Water Quality) Regulations 2006; Environmental Management and Co-ordination (Wetlands, Riverbanks, Lake Shores and Sea Shore Management) Regulations 2009; Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act 1999 / no 8
Hot Laboratory and Waste Management Center; Housing and Building National Research Center; M. Middle East News Agency; ... Nuclear Power Plants Authority (Egypt) P.
Egypt had 375 municipal wastewater treatment plants in 2012, treating an average of 10.1 million cubic meters per day. [26] The capacity of Egypt's wastewater treatment plants was more than 11 million cubic meters per day, serving more than 18 million people. The number has increased 10 times between 1985 and 2005. [4]
In 1979, the New Urban Communities Authority, or NUCA, was established as a state owned enterprise to implement these activities and its chairman is appointed by the president. [7] NUCA was originally affiliated to the cabinet , and its board included the ministers of economics, finance, housing and reconstruction, electricity, irrigation, land ...
The Hot Laboratory and Waste Management Center (HLWMC) consists of a low and intermediate level liquid waste station, radioisotope production laboratories, and a radioactive waste disposal site. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] HLWMC contains a French-supplied hot cell complex for plutonium extraction research, which is the only known facility in Egypt that could ...
The air pollution in Cairo is a matter of serious concern. The air pollution in downtown Cairo is more than 10 to 100 times of acceptable world standards. [8] Cairo has a poor factor because of lack of rain and its layout of tall buildings and narrow streets, which create a bowl effect (bad ventilation and consequent trapping of pollutants).