WaPOR activities in Egypt
The Arab Republic of Egypt faces major challenges regarding water resource management, with the growing needs of an increasingly urbanized population and the dependence on external water supply from the Nile River implying a deepening gap between water demand and supply. To ensure food security, large areas of desert have been reclaimed and added more stress on country water resources.
Water and agriculture entities are looking for all forms of integration and cooperation with international organizations to highlight and contribute to resolving the agricultural-water challenges in Egypt. WaPOR data can help monitor land and crop productivity so that more crops can be grown with the available water resources that are already stretched thin.
Project partners in Egypt
💧 Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation
🌾 Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation
| 📍 WaPOR pilot area: Northern Egypt, Nile Delta. One of the largest L3 areas available in the portal. |
Country resources
WaPOR and ICT
26/04/2021
This leaflet deals with the use of ICT (information and communication technologies) in agriculture as extension and advisory services using concrete examples of applications that use WaPOR data.
WaPOR for water accounting
04/11/2020
Water accounting is one tool that can assist with facing the challenges related to the sustainable use of our finite freshwater resources and it can be supported by easily-available open-access data. This case study aims to show how WaPOR (FAO’s portal to monitor Water productivity through open access of remotely sensed derived data) data can be used to support water auditing processes at different scales: the basin, the national scale and the subnational/scheme scale.
Water accounting in the Nile river basin
04/08/2020
The Nile River Basin faces a huge challenge in terms of water security. With an expected doubling of the population in the basin in the next twenty-five years, water supply in the basin will be further depleted as demands for agriculture, domestic and industry continues to grow. This report describes the water accounting study for the Nile River Basin carried out by IHE-Delft using the Water Productivity (WaPOR) data portal of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).
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WaPOR project meeting was held in Nairobi, Kenya, with FAO team, international project partners and data service provider
02/12/2024
FAO’s WaPOR team, together with the international project partners International Water Management Institute...
Presentation on WaPOR's Role in Egyptian Irrigation Management at Cairo Water Week
14/10/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) showcased WaPOR's role in improving irrigation management in Egypt during a session at the Cairo Water...
Remote sensing for agricultural water management - PyWaPOR training
05/07/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education held an in-person training on remote...
WaPOR introductory workshop in Cairo, Egypt
05/06/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is implementing the project “Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely...
